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but it would be very useful to have such responses collected in one spot for easy reference.
This was my thinking... it was inspired by three incidents:
1) The comment by one of the Greenland Posse that Hitler had the right idea but the wrong Jews, which Tom did not ban him for because it was in the Temple and Tom didn't read the Temple.
2) The Fetch's anti-Semitic conspiracy theorising, again in the Temple, which were allowed to pass unchallenged for a long time because, in the eyes of many of the people who were actually reading it, the conspiracy theory stuff was much more important than the suggestion that the Jews were secretly controlling the world. And who's to say that they weren't? In one of Barbelith's lower moments, this led to a series of spinoffs in which the falsity of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and the truth of the Holocaust were both placed under review. FFS, as I believe the young people say.
3) The post about smelly, stupid gypsies that kicked off the latest fight night, which again took place deep into a thread on comics trivia, in which either everyone is far more culturally aware than we are and thus imediately understood not only that the comment was not offensive but that nobody could possibly take offence at it, or that those who were still reading and contributing to the thread felt that "Do Wanda and Pietro Maximoff speak in Eastern European accents" was the important part of the post, it being about comics trivia, rather than "gypsies smell of cabbage and don't know how to use computers".
Oh, and
4) Bed Head pointing out that Cromagnet had, before his spirited defence of PsionicNurse, previously spammed the board with a bunch of pictures of dead foetuses, which I had forgotten.
This all minded me that it would be worth having a single thread in which people could say "I think this (link) by (poster) is offensive - what do you think?" - in order to bring it to the attention of people who might be more objective than those in the thread itself, and also to keep a handy tally of who is saying what when - so, as Nightclub Dwight says above, we can see easily where, say, somebody was not getting the message.
That could be racist, sexist, homophobic, or for that matter trolling or ongoing personal attacks ... we'd have to work out what we would put in there. |
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