History repeats itself. As I asked in a previous thread, what subjects are you going to demand that I remain silent on? This isn’t about me violating board rules, it’s about you personally being offended that I dare to criticize the American Right. You keep Warning me while ignoring statements from other people that are much more inflammatory - as long as they aren’t aimed at the Right.
Can you quote the part where any of the mods are asking you to “remain silent” on anything?
In the post I linked to. He’s demanding that I not express my honest opinion, one that I’ve consistently held for years. In fact, he’s holding the fact that it’s my longstanding opinion against me.
He’s also accusing me of “hostility” in a thread where the main defender of the other side is calling mothers who have abortions things like “child killers”.
Based on that post, this is nonsense. You haven’t been instructed to remain silent on any issue.
What you’ve been instructed to do is to dial down the extreme hostility and inflammatory rhetoric. If you don’t understand how you can comment on issues without doing this, I predict you will continue to accumulate warnings. I suggest that you try to figure it out instead of posting complaints in ATMB misrepresenting the reason why the warning was issued.
I notice you didn’t quote any of the mods in that post. Probably because none has asked you to remain silent on any topic. You might consider that most of us have “opinions” that are not suitable for GD and that we post them in the Pit, where such opinions belong. However, if you really think your opinions are correct and therefore suitable to GD, then you should be able to back them up cites. When you can’t do so, you should question your opinions.
And if you think other posters are doing the same as you have done when you get warnings, you should report those posts.
My rhetoric wasn’t particularly inflammatory - certainly less so than that of the other side in that debate. I got a warning in one of the posts linked in the other thread for this:
If that counts as “extreme hostility and inflammatory rhetoric”, then what doesn’t? The answer of course, is silence on my part.
You can try expressing the same opinion without using inflammatory language. Or if you’re incapable of doing so, then you can express yourself in the Pit.
And how, exactly, would that be possible? And why is it only criticism of the Right that is “inflammatory”?
If you can’t figure it out, you’ll keep on getting warnings and will eventually be banned. I suggest you work on it.
Of course, a few of the conservatives on the board make the opposite complaint.
Well, this WAS predictable, wasn’t it?
As I would have thought you’d learned last time you brought this up in ATMB, no one is asking you to remain silent on anything. You have the right to your opinions, and you have the right to express them and I - and presumably everyone else - encourages you to do so.
What you don’t have the right to do is to use hostile, inflammatory and hateful language in the expressing of those opinions. Your knee jerk responsiveness doesn’t help your (which happens to be my, for that matter) side.
It is again amusing that you continue - as you did in the last thread you made about this - to accuse me of protecting right wing causes when I am - as you apparently failed to learn last time - quite lefty and an active person in party politics and campaigns. In short, you’ve returned to the same reflexive attacks that didn’t work before and, frankly, it’s pathetic.
So again, I don’t want you to remain silent, but I do want you to learn better ways in which you can express yourself. You’re an educated adult who has participating in the SDMB for many years. There’s no excuse for not learning how to actually debate and discuss. Or, as Colibri says, if you must throw bombs, do so in the Pit. That’s what it’s there for.
In the United States, you have the right to remain silent….
Does that help?
It was extremely inflammatory. Pretending it wasn’t doesn’t help your cause in the least.
That warning was for failure to follow a moderator’s instructions rather than for inflammatory rhetoric.
JC had said previously in that thread that “One more damn WORD that is pointless bashing and the warnings are coming in all directions and the thread will be closed.” He later called your post “pointless bashing”, so the warning was not for “extreme hostility and inflammatory rhetoric”.
In your earlier thread, I agreed that the waring was not warranted, but I didn’t see the earlier mod note, so now it makes more sense.
I note that you don’t actually answer the question.
Conservatives always feel they are being persecuted. But that doesn’t change the fact that they get away with “inflammatory” rhetoric all the time without being warned. Including in the thread I was just warned in. How is calling the other side murderers not inflammatory, but what I said is?
I’m not “pretending”. It’s not particularly inflammatory, nor was it meant to be. I can’t see how to make it milder without either lying, or just staying silent.
Der Trihs:
The post you got a warning for today was this:
That was in response to an OP which asked why conservatives were opposed to abortion. Now, there were a number of conservatives posting in that thread. Do you think your post applies to them? If you do, then I can’t help you. You probably will be banned at some point. If you don’t, then put that broad brush away once and for all when posting in GD. It’s really that simple.
Only you can figure that out. And if you don’t you’ll be banned.
Complaining that someone else didn’t get a speeding ticket when you did doesn’t negate the fact that you were driving way over the limit.
Ok then, I suggest that you’ll either have to stay silent or be banned. It’s your call.
Who call women who get abortions things like murderers and kid killers - yet apparently that isn’t “inflammatory”.
The rules of debate on the SDMB don’t allow me to answer that question honestly if the answer is “yes”, so asking it has little point.
OK, I guess I can’t help you then.
Conservatives call pro choice people “murderers” and “kid killers” in Great Debates? I don’t recall that.
And I think anyone who’s read DT’s opinions on religion, and whether believing in and practicing them means condoning certain opinions and behaviors, knows what the answer to John Mace’s question is…
In the thread I just got Warned in, that is the rhetoric being used.