“But I have asked the editor of the Guardian’s style guide (where the word is currently not mentioned) whether guidance should be included on its use.”

You might ask the style guide editor about the use of dehumanizing vile racist metaphors like this by oalexander

“My general respect for Israel and the grand majority of its citizenry is lower than what I can afford for a cockroach.”

We know already that this style is accepted by your style guide – naturally only if it is used against “Zionists” by righteous and angry “anti-Israel” posters like LaRitournelle and Hermine. True, the recent case is slightly different, now oalexander has applied it against Blacks, Asians, Arabs, Jews, Christians and Muslims “the majority of Israel’s citizenry”. The victims of the abuse are not only “Zionists” – but from the other side it is directed against Israelis – the dilemma must be a very hard nut to crack for your style guide editor

GeorginaHenry:

We breathlessly await your decision: are we allowed to use the term “ethical cretin” (in its colloquial sense, and in a general way) ? Have you been up all night discussing it?

Speaking of ethics, at least we can be thankful that Lerner wrote this thread using his own name. But what is your opinion of someone who says something like this:

“I’ve never fabricated anything,” Lerner said. “I have taken what other people said to me and written it for them when they were unable or unwilling to do it for themselves. If you want to encourage critical debate, you sometimes have to allow for anonymity.”

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/5319/tikkun-editor-calls-letter-writing-policy-a-mistake/#

However, I believe that MITNAGED was being too kind – and that La Henry and her coven show evidence of terminal delusional denial.

Imagine it – Georgina Henry would be the first violin in the orchestra, and Seaton would be rearranging the deckchairs on the CiF Titanic as it sank with them all on board (which please heaven!), both of them all the while insisting that the Guardianista passengers should be enjoying themselves because there was nothing to worry about, as the ship went down.

Seaton’s comment above to Melanie Philips is proof positive of this end-stage delusion which affects all of the Editors, or alternatively, Seaton is brown-nosing Henry.

I believe that it is a mixture of the two.

“We admire Melanie’s work so much that we had to nominate this blogpost as one of our ‘best of the web’ on Cif (Cif, please, Mel; not CiF).

I hope she won’t feel too compromised by being included in our ‘institutionalised intellectual and moral depravity’.”
http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/5458606/the-intolerable-provocation-of-the-truth-at-the-guardian.thtml