Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
David, you're mistaking lack of sympathy for outrage. After reading your description, I didn't have much sympathy (if any) for your situation, but I wasn't outraged. We have people here who post much wilder stuff.
Sometimes mods delete posts and ban users because they don't want a significant base of their readers to start leaving, or for the discussion to degenerate and cause new readers to shy away. Sometimes it is to keep a few people from getting offended and leaving. I delete some feedback posts from my YouTube videos precisely because I don't post those videos so that my friends can be insulted. Freedom of speech doesn't apply to private sites on the internet.
Everybody understands the difference between censorship (government-enforced silence) versus simple suppression of ideas. The reason that the U.S. Founding Fathers mandated freedom of speech (and assembly, etc.) was because they understood this to be a Natural right. So even though media PC police or power-tripping internet moderators are clearly not breaking that right itself, they are breaking with the underlying idea.
The lesson for me here is that Star Wars fans are rabidly politically correct (by 2012 standards) as a group. Hey, maybe this is just normal nowadays, but I've been spending too much time in the world of MMA where they're mostly devoid of pretense and phoniness, and so I just project that kind of social innocence onto others. I don't know.
I wish more people would stand up to these bullies. But I understand the instinct to just shrug your shoulders and move on. It's like Tom Wolfe wrote once, he asked students in some useless college course why they all submitted to their teacher's command that they spell women "womyn". He said that they all agreed it was stupid, but better to just get through things than make waves and risk your grade, reputation, or sparking the name-calling wrath of their bullying professor. That same shoulder-shrugging acquiescence to all the phonies has continued, and they and their bullying ways have obviously just grown. Now, the word "effeminate" to describe a dude is the latest word on the blacklist. Okay, duly noted.
It's funny, I like the Joe Rogan podcast, and he always complains about this sort of shit and how they're prohibiting more and more words and ideas, working for NBC and UFC (although the latter is obviously very lenient). He just substitutes "cunty" for "faggy" nowadays, but he always fears that you people are gonna throw your hysterics about "cunty" pretty soon, too, and muzzle him still more. You'll just keep demanding more words to the censored list until there's just the word, "The" in the vocabulary.
What hilarious phoniness. I don't want to talk about it anymore, either. What they did to me was wrong, as is their secrecy about it and their lies, and their refusal to punish people who called me names.