Lil devils x said:
Lightknight said:
Lil devils x said:
The Lunatic said:
I'd just be happy with the forums featuring less SJWs passive aggressive berating people for "Wrongthink".
Generally, the forums would be improved if we actually did something about the members who've been 1-2 warnings away from getting banned for like a year and yet have never changed their attitude.
I would rather just see racist, sexist or bigoted statements moderated so that people wouldn't have to say something. If you allow people to just say racist, sexist or bigoted statements all over your forums, your forums ARE racists, sexist and bigoted and unwelcoming to those who those statements are bigoted against. When you allow such things to run rampant, you are telling people they are not welcome here. On these forums, I have been told rape victims should not talk about rape, that women should allow themselves to be raped and not worry about it, that passed out women are okay to have sex with because they don't know it is happening, women are manipulative whores, that Native Americans should have assimilated a long time ago, that it doesn't matter if they are poisoning and killing Native Americans because they really do not matter, That Blacks are either college graduates or drug dealers, Blacks are criminals, among many other things that never were moderated.
Bigotry is intolerance of beliefs you disagree with. This comment is technically bigotry and would be removed under your regime's call for censorship of such things.
Allowing people to speak their beliefs even when potentially offensive isn't agreeing with their beliefs. It's just being an open forum for discussion. What a horrible fallacy you're committing by assuming otherwise. What a convenient rhetoric for censorious people to use that intolerance is only okay when they do it and that anyone who does or says otherwise needs to be censored.
I disagree, allowing people to openly spread ignorance about others, whether it is their race, sex, gender, ethnic group, or religion not only enables these things to continue but also promotes these beliefs allowing them to be fostered in a way that is harmful to the groups being affected.
Who gets to decide what is ignorance and what is legitimate? Organizations who moved to do what you are advocating here also burned people at the stake for claiming the Earth wasn't the center of the universe. You are just perpetuating historical persecution of beliefs when so many things are subjective. So many things are called racism or sexism when they aren't, not really. The idea that women are different from men in a sexually dimorphic species isn't wrong and the concept that humans who evolved in different regions of the world may have differences beyond just skin tone isn't unbelievable either when looking at so many other examples in the animal kingdom. The discussion of the notions is potentially inflammatory and could easily be called racism/sexism when they could just as easily be scientific inquiry seeking to discover and praise the natural unique strengths/weakenesses/differences our diverse hominid group expresses.
It isn't just a matter of someone saying "Blacks are criminals" and it not harming someone.
What about someone stating that black culture disproportionately encourages criminal behaviors/activities? Would you have that censored along with the person saying "Blacks are criminals" or would the former be spared by some sort of logic you haven't yet conveyed? Because the former is social commentary on a problem that does exist and needs to be addressed whereas the latter is a vague stereotype putting everyone in the same box.
What's more is that the only reason why the comment that they are criminals is harmful is because that is born out in the numbers. However, once someone presents that then you then have the opportunity to show them that their demographic's crime statistic is in line with the crime statistics of the poor and that such a disproportionate amount of crime can be more easily tied to equality gap than color of skin.
Again, you are robbing discourse on a commonly held belief that can lead to enlightenment. Do you honestly believe that people are coming into that discussion thinking that black people don't commit more crime? Most people either agree or disagree and so it only serves to benefit us when the truth may be presented eloquently for all to see.
In being afraid of lies, you are disowning the presentation of truth. That is of no benefit to anyone.