I totally missed the precursor to all of this (and I still haven't seen it), but I think I've got the gist of it.
Vagabond, I understand where you're coming from, but at the same time, you gotta see Willco's point. A distinguished mentally-challenged fellow as a pet? Classifying Jews? Now I admit haven't seen the content of the threads yet, but I'm sorry, those kinds of thread topics have no place here. I like Lemurs, I've had nothing but good discussions with her (albeit only a couple), and from what I've seen, she is an intelligent person.
However, I think she knew exactly what she was doing by posting those threads and they easily could have degenerated to OA levels of ridiculousness which is definitely something we want to avoid. This is not OA, this is not OA jr or OA Lite, and we don't want it become that in any way shape or form.