What are CT threads?
CT=Conspiracy Theory
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Conspiracy theories. Certainly we’ve had plenty of dumbass September 11th conspiracy threads and most of the other famous conspiracy theory topics are exhausted, but we’ve had a few entertaining outre theories like ‘Were the Stuart Kings black?’ and ‘Did the CIA and Eric Burdon murder Jimi Hendrix?’
Computerized Tomography threads.
What?
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By last step, do you mean “scorn and ridicule,” “so on” or “atheist/theist?”
No matter, simply substitute anarcho-capitalism, creationism, universal health care, the bombing of Hiroshima or any other topic which tends to attract extreme, irrational posts regardless of the intent of the OP.
It’s all the same slippery slope.
I meant the “atheist/theist” part. I understand what you’re saying - there are many unresolvable topics and that’s in large part what GD is for. I don’t think it follows that we would start cracking down on those kinds of topic just because we ban some of the topics that attract the lunatics. But that being said, this is all hypothetical. We don’t want to declare any topics off-limits.
Hey, use a tag if you’re going to post about x-rayed topics.
Personally, I’ll give GermanicPride credit for the fact he was willing to come right out and say what he meant. He said he was a Nazi, he admired Hitler, and didn’t like Jews. It was refreshingly honest at least. We get so many racists that want to dance around the subject and not actually say what everyone knows they’re thinking. We end up with those threads that are supposedly about illegal immigration or affirmative action or hate crimes or gang activities or intelligence testing or national languages - but are really all about race.
Yet still he kept insisting he wasn’t a Holocaust denier - what was up with that?
No credit from me. He only came out and said what he thought after everybody realized by inference that that was obviously what he thought.
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Yet still he kept insisting he wasn’t a Holocaust denier - what was up with that?
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He’s one of the denier types who (sort of) acknowledges that some Jews and others were killed, but tries to minimize the numbers…as if by doing so it makes it ok or at least more acceptable. I’ve seen a lot of denier types who take this route. To THEM it makes some sort of difference I suppose.
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“Denier? I’m a huge fan!”
This type also harps on the fact that many of the concentration camp prisoners died of disease and malnutrition instead of by poison gas. I guess we should be offended because they think that will matter to anybody.
I think we should instaban anyone who likes shaky cam. And vegans.
Once you start banning people for ideas, then where do you stop?
I was going to ask the same [slippery slope] question:
Shall we ban the following? Why, or why not?
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Moon landing hoax believers
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9/11 thruthers
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Oswald did not kill Kennedy believers
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Global warming deniers
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Gun control opponents
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Republicans
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Fox News viewers
Edit: Posting before finishing the thread. Still in the middle of page 1!
With people that promote and celebrate genocide.
At Neo-Nazis. Which is where we can start, too.
Besides, it’s not banning people for mere ideas. Someone can think or support all sorts of stupid shit. Troofers are idiots, but Neo-Nazis are jerks. We ban jerks, we do not (unfortunately enough) ban idiots.
Just, ya know, if we were going to go for it.
First they came for the Nazis…
Then even fewer people would know who you were talking about? Jeeze, I’ve been here twelve years and I nearly missed him. And made a point of avoiding him.
When they came for the holocaust deniers…
… I kinda nodded in approval, actually.