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View submission: Can we ban this extremely racist asshole?
I guess I'm a little late to the party, but I banned him. We rarely ban non-spammers, but hate-speech used in that context is not something we tolerate.
Comment by tsteele93 at 06/06/2008 at 02:30 UTC
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That's disappointing.
I find it very easy to ignore speech that I don't like. Hate speech has never hurt me. It doesn't do anything. It is speech.
Speech has the ABILITY to motivate people to do great things, and terrible things - but the speech itself does nothing.
I haven't even read any of the posts this guy has made, but I find it very disappointing that you have banned him.
Plus, how do you ban him and let people post links to sites with pictures of autopsied babies on an Ashley Tisdale page keep on posting? And where do we draw the line on this slope?
It's your site, but since I haven't been banned yet, I'll go ahead and call it a bad decision and disappointing.
Comment by theeeggman at 05/06/2008 at 22:56 UTC
5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
hate-speech used in that context is not something we tolerate.
What context?
Comment by [deleted] at 05/06/2008 at 23:01 UTC*
3 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Really? Sounds like you're applying a double standard[1]. I can't think of any off the top of my head, but I'm sure there are a ton of trolls on reddit, and I've probably been guilty of getting pissed off in a flame war and using some racist hate speech myself.
1: http://www.reddit.com/info/6m87a/comments/c0494bn?context=4
Comment by alehbye at 07/06/2008 at 00:54 UTC
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And that is why you should read the UA. Then there will be no confusion about why this was done.
I am against censorship in the fashion where you are being silenced for things you believe in and have a rational explanation for, but to insult entire ethnic groups because of ignorance, that should not be tolerated. And it wasn't.
Despite all the bitching, I applaud you. Well done.
Comment by Whisper at 06/06/2008 at 04:18 UTC*
-5 upvotes, 1 direct replies
Fuck you. Seriously, fuck you with a telephone pole. A splintery telephone pole. Sideways. What you just did is ten thousand times more hateful and offensive than any thing he could have said.
Who will you ban next? P3do? I_AM_A_NEOCON? Redditcensoredme? 911_was_an_inside_job?