Voyager1 wrote: ↑August 29th, 2023, 6:10 pm
@Winston @Pixel--Dude
This thread crosses the line. Cornfed and NBC are calling for the wholesale killing of Blacks based on their race.
@Pixel--Dude your gf is black and I would presume your daughter is of mixed race. This is unacceptable.
I am calling for the immediate
permanent banishment of Cornfed and NBC.
This type of talk should not be tolerated on this forum. This is not what we want to be known for.
Yeah, my girlfriend is black. And yeah, I actually think
@Cornfed and
@Natural_Born_Cynic have both acted in a really distasteful way. If either of them tried to exterminate my girlfriend because she's black I would suplex them both through a dining table. And I mean a big oak one, not a flimsy one like in wrestling.
But in all serious guys, please try and tone it down a bit for f**k sake.
@Winston said this kind of thing is discretionary on part of the moderator so I will be honest I did consider taking this down because like I said I think you both went a bit far, but it seems to have generated some interesting and intelligent discussion from people who are opposed to these kind of.... "opinions" such as
@publicduende and
@MarcosZeitola.
@galii even weighed in with some data of his own.
I don't think permanently banning either Cornfed or Natural_Born_Cynic is necessary. But personally I do think they should tone it down a little bit.
I'll leave it up to
@Winston to make the call on this one. I've sent him a link to the thread on WhatsApp so if he thinks it should be removed then I will take it down. I know he's not a fan of racial hatred being expressed too explicitly on the forum. And their discussion about wholesale eradication of black people is a bit much.
With regard to the rules there is nothing explicitly stating that this kind of thread is an infringement of the rules (possibly with the exception of rule 3, some members or potential members might be repulsed by this kind of thread and refrain from joining the community) so I think for me to act upon this is a slippery slope.
If Cornfed directed any racial comments towards me in particular and referenced my girlfriend then that would indeed be a personal attack and he would receive a ban. At the moment, where I find this kind of thread completely deplorable, there is no rule being infringed upon for me to act upon here.
Winston mentioned that banning this kind of thread is a slippery slope into infringing on free speech. So it's a grey area. If Winston made it a rule that this kind of thread isn't acceptable then I would remove it and warn or ban both Cornfed and Natural_Born_Cynic. At the moment though for me to do that would be me acting independently of the rules put forward and taking it down because I don't like it personally. Usually when Cornfed makes these kinds of posts I just try to stay out of them and ignore them. He isn't the only racist against black people on the forum.
I'll think about it some more.
You are free to make any decision you desire, but you are not free from the consequences of those decisions.