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The article provided in the OP had a wide assortment of statistical figures, factual arguments, etc.

Those who replied with comments like "Boomers suck!" were indicating their agreement with the article, and the acceptance of those facts. Now you can make a decent argument that this sort of conversation is counter-productive... but the OP of that thread was not. In fact, it was excellent. I think that shutting down these topics isn't going to stop people from making blanket statements, especially when those blanket statements can and have been backed up by facts. You can certainly encourage people to be more civil about it, but ultimately, some generalizations are completely factual. The majority of Boomers support downloading the costs of their social programs to younger generations, all the while supporting politicians who will dismantle the things that enable the younger generation to pay for them (like education funding, health care, etc).

I urge you to reconsider. I won't bother you anymore about this, and I appreciate the hard work, I am just concerned that your actions may have been overly restrictive.

When the conclusions follow logically from the facts, and those conclusions are offensive to some, it is tempting to dismiss them or shut down the argument. But this is a debate board. Up until certain logical extremes - such as advocating genocide - such discussion should be tolerated, in my opinion. There is a difference between Rev calling Boomers a scourge, and John Galt suggesting that they should be exterminated. A pretty wide and obvious difference.

Ok, talked to uebermann and he's too busy right now to really think or talk about it today. We will get back to everyone tomorrow (hopefully) with a final decision. Please don't be impatient if it doesn't happen tomorrow. We will get back to you as soon as possible. This is an important issue and we won't ignore it.

This issue can be a delicate one for the future of the site and we want to make sure that we make the right decision. We have to decide how far we will let gray areas go that don't become destructive to the site. This is definitely a gray area.

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