“People should be able to express their opinions, even if the mods disagree with their view, as long as no one is calling someone stupid or irreligious, etc.”
Oomis, there are much more subtle and insidious ways of putting down groups of Jews even without using the “direct” language you reference.
YWN has criteria for expressions of diversity, and there has been some nice, respectful dialogue along these lines on a number of threads. Shivim Panim L’Torah has been expressed beautifully on this site, without need for “My position is rational, intelligent, and holy, and yours is that of a simple-minded, irrational, hypocritical and fundamentalist fool”.
exactly, thank you bemused