To me this amounts to " You think you're a man; I'll show you what a man is"; in other words playing the same game in reverse. — Janus
Admittedly banning is easier, but I think deletion of offensive posts would send an equally clear, and more compassionate, message. — Janus
Truth need not tip it's hat to BS. — James Riley
Such posts would be seen and they would offend. Don’t you care about that? They would also promote bigotry, and by allowing them the forum could be perceived as supportive. Does anyone follow up on what posts are deleted? My own posts could be deleted and I wouldn’t know. — praxis
Truth need not tip it's hat to BS.
— James Riley
Of course not; that's why I said it should be deleted. — Janus
To me this amounts to " You think you're a man; I'll show you what a man is"; in other words playing the same game in reverse. — Janus
When I said that truth need not tip it's hat to BS, I meant that if X kicks a man when he's down, and Y beats X to stop the kicking, then yes, both are acts of violence. So what? It's not the same game. Y is righteous for stopping X, just like Baden was righteous for banning. So calling it the "same game in reverse" is fundamentally untrue. Truth need not tip it's hat to BS. — James Riley
Does Y need to "beat" X or just restrain X? I'm not arguing that, if the choice was only between banning and not banning, with no other option, that banning would not be preferable. Deletion is another option, which restrains the person, while rejecting the material and not the person. — Janus
Man, I've come across quite a few oblique, or casually, racist comments across several threads but I stay critically engaged anyway to expose and ridicule them until you Mods judge they should be banned (mostly you all don't ban them, or maybe you give warnings, idk). I've been accuse by some of these members of "reverse racism" or "anti-white prejudice" for my clear anti-racist stands with respect to police violence in the US, etc. I give at least as good as I get, but I don't report; from my nightclub bouncer days, I still love 'punching' assholes (i.e. curb-stomping racists, misogynists, antisemites, fascists, et al). Keep on keepin' on, Baden! :up:↪Janus
So by that logic, it wouldn't be justified to ban for racism someone who said this either.
I am an unrepentant racist. For me, the concept that blacks should be considered the equal of whites, if they are any kind of white, is simply fucking ludicrous
I don't relate much to your idea of justice. — Baden
I still love 'punching' assholes (i.e. curb-stomping racists, misogynists, antisemites, fascists, et al). — 180 Proof
Anyway, I've said enough on this. — Janus
Philosophy is the UNFETTERED love of wisdom, and that means asking ANY question, however forbidden it be. — Leghorn
(It's fantasy that) we can or should try to reform bigots by being nice to them. — Baden
Thumbs up to the ‘one strike you’re out’ policy of unrepentant misogynists. Thanks for the exercise in futility. — praxis
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