History of Feminism

Now, there was a lot of wiggle room he had that would still allow a stance, for example:

We here at DU do not tolerate any sort of defamation or discrimination based on gender, race or creed, period. However, we will always take note that in the heat of arguments, people may demonize others as bigots because of their opinion. There are those who will paint any opposition to their point as bigotry, as issues like Israel/Palestine bring up. That is why when someone is called a bigot, or accusing someone of being a bigot, we will look at the facts, and ask people to prove their points based on logic and fact.

That would have made a firm stance, and also helped deal with the idiots on any side that wanted to use a phrase to say "ban them, they are a (insert word here).