Not sure I’m really following you here. Can you point to a specific sentence or phrase that you think shouldn’t be allowed due to its racism? So far, I’m not seeing it. Bias? Yes? A contorted beyond any reasonable recognition world view? Yes. Other than that, it sounds like many of Der Trihs’s no-bearing-on-reality rants.
WHAM!
Best. Doper Answer. EVER.
Exactly. We don’t want to kill all the black people. If we did, who would fix our decaying roads and bridges?
I’m not entirely sure that post was racist (though I will hardly shed a tear if Honesty is banned.) He ascribes some unpleasant views to white people, but that’s not exactly racist in my book. Prejudiced, certainly.
All the clownfish on this message board are such jokers. I hope they use them all for sushi!
I hereby accuse white posters on this message board of being less sensitive to issues of justice when the person accused is black.
You think I’ve broken a rule by doing that?
All white posters on this board? And less sensitive to who-all black posters, or a particular black poster?
All turquoise posters on this board are fucking dirtbags.
Could the board owners afford necessary reparations?
So how does this interact with attacks on liberals, conservatives, republicans, democrats, etc.?
No. But we could repatriate him to 4chan.
What distinction are you making between the two terms? “Prejudice towards race X” is how I define racism. How can someone say something prejudiced about white people and it not be racist?
And, no, I don’t mean people who happen to be white. I mean white people. Honesty’s post is about white people in general.
“All black people think Basketball Wives is a good show.” Racist? Or just stupid?
Albinos?
PC: the pigment deprived.
Spooks.
Ghosts? Albino Ghosts?
I think batshit insane posts like that one serve a good purpose, they allow me to use a fun phrase like “batshit insane post” that I don’t normally get to use.
I disagree with most of the distinctions people are making here. Honesty didn’t say all white people. He just said white people, meaning collectively or generally. I don’t think anyone would get the impression from his posts that he thinks every single white person has the characteristics he describes.
Ultimately, what it really boils down to (and what I think people are dancing around) is the fact that what he said is so offensive and so removed from reality. It’s a lot worse to be a murderer than to have below average intelligence, and the notion that whites generally are out to kill as many blacks as possible is a lot loonier than the notion that blacks have on average lower intelligence than whites.
But these are subjective judgements (particularly the second). There’s no way to draw the line without making these judgments. People who like to think they are in favor of freedom of expression no matter how distasteful are trying to find some more objective difference. But they’re failing at it, IMO.
It’s also the lead-in of that post, which was was directed at people on this MB. Everything that follows, then, is directed at those same people. Maybe he wanted to pivot away from that lead-in, but he didn’t. And he only got a mod note, so it shouldn’t be a big deal. Unless, of course, he’s predisposed to continue making such comments.