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My personal 2 pence is that puerile threads should just be ignored, I don't believe it fair to restrict speach based on personal preference.
Inflammatory, racist, sexist, offensive behaviour is going too far however.
I am sure that the comment "all pakis are thugs" would not be tolerated by this community (quite rightly) - no matter how tongue in cheek it was said. So why do we turn a blind eye to "all women are mental, emotionally unbalanced, materialistic gold diggers?"
A comment in one thread was made that we all need to let off steam sometimes. The example given was that your girlfriend may annoy you, so you want to let off steam. Fine, complain about your girlfriend. I can ignore that, and it doesn't offend me. But when it leads you to comment on all women, it extends to my girlfriend, my mother, my grandmother, etc.... and that does offend me.
Another thread (that I took part in) talked of benefits fraud. Many seemed content with the view that everyone on benefits are freeloaders and the system should be removed. Fine, rant about the freeloaders, but accept that there are decent people out there who have used the system they paid for in the way intended. As a stop gap measure to get back on their feet.
Just use common sense. Factual statements about the actual individuals that have done you wrong. Focus on the behaviour that you find abhorrant, not the wide group that you believe to be exhibiting this behaviour. I'm sure no one would have a problem with the statement "I hate drug dealers", but would have a problem with "I hate blacks, they are all drug dealers".
I will ignore threads that I don't like. I'll debate opinions that I disagree with. But I get very angry with bigotted posts that are little better than 18th century thinking regurgitated.
To round it off, a little more research and knowledge than just what you've read in a single, biased, newspaper wouldn't go amiss. Chances are that if you have only a single source, you don't have the whole picture.
Intelligent, well informed comments spark interesting and lively debates. Snippets of a news article about a something that the government is debating thinking of possibly implementing a trial of sometime in the future, and then saying "what's the world coming to?" is just inflammatory.
If we can't intelligently overcome this as adults using common sense, then perhaps there could be a report thread/post, option? Whereby someone can express offense at a remark? Of course, it would take more than a single report to trigger any action, and it would be at the sole dicretion of the mod. Some form of "misuse" penalty may be required also. i.e. for reporting a post because you don't like it, rather than because it is offensive/inappropriate.
Anyway, as I said, the thoughts expressed herein are purely my own.
My personal 2 pence is that puerile threads should just be ignored, I don't believe it fair to restrict speach based on personal preference.
Inflammatory, racist, sexist, offensive behaviour is going too far however.
I am sure that the comment "all pakis are thugs" would not be tolerated by this community (quite rightly) - no matter how tongue in cheek it was said. So why do we turn a blind eye to "all women are mental, emotionally unbalanced, materialistic gold diggers?"
A comment in one thread was made that we all need to let off steam sometimes. The example given was that your girlfriend may annoy you, so you want to let off steam. Fine, complain about your girlfriend. I can ignore that, and it doesn't offend me. But when it leads you to comment on all women, it extends to my girlfriend, my mother, my grandmother, etc.... and that does offend me.
Another thread (that I took part in) talked of benefits fraud. Many seemed content with the view that everyone on benefits are freeloaders and the system should be removed. Fine, rant about the freeloaders, but accept that there are decent people out there who have used the system they paid for in the way intended. As a stop gap measure to get back on their feet.
Just use common sense. Factual statements about the actual individuals that have done you wrong. Focus on the behaviour that you find abhorrant, not the wide group that you believe to be exhibiting this behaviour. I'm sure no one would have a problem with the statement "I hate drug dealers", but would have a problem with "I hate blacks, they are all drug dealers".
I will ignore threads that I don't like. I'll debate opinions that I disagree with. But I get very angry with bigotted posts that are little better than 18th century thinking regurgitated.
To round it off, a little more research and knowledge than just what you've read in a single, biased, newspaper wouldn't go amiss. Chances are that if you have only a single source, you don't have the whole picture.
Intelligent, well informed comments spark interesting and lively debates. Snippets of a news article about a something that the government is debating thinking of possibly implementing a trial of sometime in the future, and then saying "what's the world coming to?" is just inflammatory.
If we can't intelligently overcome this as adults using common sense, then perhaps there could be a report thread/post, option? Whereby someone can express offense at a remark? Of course, it would take more than a single report to trigger any action, and it would be at the sole dicretion of the mod. Some form of "misuse" penalty may be required also. i.e. for reporting a post because you don't like it, rather than because it is offensive/inappropriate.
Anyway, as I said, the thoughts expressed herein are purely my own.
