Um, BigT, you really want to think this one over again. Nonconstructive people have always be with us, will always be with us. And barring enforcement mechanisms, they sure as heck will continue to thrive on the internet. The challenge is in creating institutions and systems that are robust with respect to such shenanigans – curbing it entirely on a semi-anonymous message board isn’t especially realistic.
I like him… Despite his racist tendencies and a further propensity towards talking bollocks, you’ve gotta admit he’s feisty… although that might be down to his medication… kinda reminds me of me when I was 10 and had first learned to type…you know, how the words just come flowing from your fingers like the beginnings of a dam bursting…
You can of course cite the no doubt frequent instances of my calling everyone else names on this board. Likewise, you can, of course, explain what who I am racist in favor of and who I am bigoted against, with examples of how I have displayed this racism and bigotry though my posts to this board. Feel free to do so.
You know, at some point you’ve got to do a little more than string some words together and assume they make a coherent and factual argument. Again, how effectively are you at getting your message across? Are you giving the impression that you are an intelligent, sensible, logical person who marshals facts to back up his opinions, and are you actually convincing anyone of the correctness of your position?
I do believe that’s the first time in my eight years here that I’ve been called a “lib”. Can you give me any indication from my posts of my liberal tendencies? I very consciously keep away from political discussions on this board, and I don’t think anyone here, even those with more than one and a half brain cells to rub together, could correctly deduce my political leanings from what I’ve written here.
Well, I gotta admit that I find ole’ Bullsy a breath of fresh air. No coded language. No pretending to be compassionate (or even trying to convince themselves). He just comes right out and says what Real 'Markans think.
Here’s what I’m hoping to see from Bullsy:
Disingenuous poster: Africans are not as advanced because they have lower IQs.
Other poster: What? Are you suggesting that they are genetically inferior? First, there is strong debate on whether small differences in intelligence can be scientifically measured. Hell, general intelligence itself is extremely elusive. Furthermore, race is only a superficial construct that only loosely correlates with genetic differences, in which intelligence differences is very difficult to find. [cite, cite, cite]
Disingenuous poster: Look, I’m not racist or anything but I’m gonna bring in some shitty cites to prove to you (and myself) that race real and, therefore, Africans have lower IQs. [shitty cite, shitty cite, shitty cite]. Here’s some cites on IQs. Look at how blacks are different even adopted ones
Other poster: Didn’t I just say that both race and IQ are scientifically ambiguous at best?
Bullrun: Well, of course the blacks are stupid. Why, I was just at the Mickey Dees the other day and I can give you video proof of their stupidity. It’s just like you liberals with your high-falutin’ science to try to rationalize what I see every day when I pick up my dinner! I want my country back!!!
Just out of curiosity… being new and an English-as-a-third-language type person… The “directed at other posters” part is a bit unclear, is it supposed to mean “other posters” in general, or just “another poster”. Like, would that rule cover “Fuck everyone”?