Blog spotlight: Howling Latina

I understand that Lefty Blogs has delisted Howling Latina. And other supposedly Democratic blogs are dropping the site from their blogrolls. The reason? Howling Latina is a proud advocate of PUMA. She dares to be a dissenting voice.

I thought the Democratic Party was a big tent. Have we gotten so out of whack that we only want to hear from the people we agree with? Heck, if that were the case, I’d be removing a pile of blogs from my blogroll – and don’t assume that the list would only be Republican ones.

When we start down the path of censoring the voices within our party, there is little that separates us from the Republicans. If your sensibilities are offended by those with whom you disagree, there is a simple answer: don’t read them.

Individual blog operators have the right to do whatever they want with their blogrolls. But I disagree with the decision by Lefty Blogs to remove Howling Latina because to do so, is an attempt to silence someone. (And we’ve seen plenty of that over at Blogger.)

It’s just not right. And because it’s my blog, I’ll continue to keep Howling Latina listed.

This entry was written by vjp and posted on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 10:44 am and filed under Local, National, Politics, Virginia. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

91 Comments

  1. Sleepless in Virginia
    Posted Wednesday, August 6, 2008 at 4:38 pm | Permalink

    Ditto, vivian …

« Older Comments

6 Trackbacks/Pingbacks

  1. By Howling Latina dissed by fellow Dems | Bearing Drift :: Virginia Politics and Podcasts on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 11:16 am

    [...] It appears that Vivian Paige agrees with me (although I do take exception to her assessment of Republicans). addthis_url = [...]

  2. By Blacknell.net » Democratic Circular Firing Squads: It’s What We Do Best on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 2:57 pm

    [...] Paige has the details of this silly mess. You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site. RSS [...]

  3. By Hate disguised as dissent « Skeptical Brotha on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 7:21 pm

    [...] blogger Vivian Paige, a good friend, is having a discussion on her space about the above graphic used by blogger Howling [...]

  4. By Is Leftyblogs censoring PUMAs? | BNN Broadcast on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 9:15 pm

    [...] really. The debate is raging in the Virginia blogosphere, however, after Howling Latina was apparently removed from the pioneering political blog aggregator [...]

  5. By There’s no such thing as freedom from consequences « The United States of Jamerica on Sunday, August 3, 2008 at 11:02 pm

    [...] Latina rankled a few feathers, chief among them it seems, the prominent Hampton Roads blogger Vivian Paige: I understand that Lefty Blogs has delisted Howling Latina. And other supposedly Democratic blogs [...]

  6. By Leftyblogs: Delisting had nothing to do with politics | BNN Broadcast on Monday, August 4, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    [...] Leftyblogs creator Kari Chrisholm’s note to the Virginia blogger who sparked a debate over the delisting of a PUMA blog. Vivian [...]