ZosterSandstorm is suspended for 3 days after 5th warning

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Suspended for 3 days for 5th Warning since October 2021

You are being suspended for 3 days. You are also banned from talking about CRT at all on the Straight Dope when you return.

You’ve been warned for detailing & hijacking threads and insulting others. You don’t appear to be improving.

The CRT ban is for the entire board, not just GD or P&E. It includes the Pit.

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List of warnings to come …

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Selective Magnet School in Virginia moving towards a lottery system

Maybe the board software should just auto-reply to your posts with this so as to save us all time, but, once again: What the fuck are you talking about?

Selective Magnet School in Virginia moving towards a lottery system

Moderating It is possible to disagree with something without referring to it as dumb, or saying what the fuck are you talking about, or any of the sniping i’m seeing. I’ve picked out a couple of examples above, this is not an exhaustive list. If you can’t be civil you will be warned.

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The depths of Britain's Labor (they say Labour) party anti-Semitism

You didn’t see his name on a BDS petition? Must not have looked very hard. Or maybe Mossad broke into your house and gave you special glasses that prevent you from reading certain websites. One can never be sure.

Warning for ZosterSandstorm, you like to make debates personal. That is not allowed. While this one might seem minor, you do this far too often. Please stop it. Everytime you make a post in GD or P&E personal going forward will result in a warning and then a suspension if you persist.

This is an official warning to not violate this basic rule of P&E and GD.

@Jonathan_Chance

Attack the post, not the poster. We’re here for fun, not harming others. Personalizing posts is usually a bad idea. Comment on the content of the commentary and not on the person making it.

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Another Critical Race Theory thread

In CRT, Asians aren’t fully formed people with their own motives, goals, and values, they are just semi-robotic “wedges” used in the eternal race war between whites and blacks. When Asians do well it’s because they are “white-adjacent,” “white-acting,” imported by whites to harm blacks, or propped up to serve as a “model minority” which is bad because it implies that blacks might have agency over their own lives. Any Asian success is part of some larger scheme by the white cabal to harm black p…

@Hari_Seldon

or this: Another Critical Race Theory thread - #189 by ZosterSandstorm

which is a caricature of CRT.

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Warning and thread ban for ZosterSandstorm. You are rehashing and old and tired pet issue in a thread not for it. I am officially warning you to change your behavior in CRT threads going forward and to stay out of this thread from this point forward.

Another Critical Race Theory thread

On the one hand, I am very leery of any sort of attempt by central legislative action to blanketly dictate what schools should teach or not teach, particularly “bans” on ideologies, and I doubt that the average Idaho Republican has a good understanding of this issue. On the other hand, it’s undoubtedly true that some aspects of CRT (as actually practiced in the real world by its devotees and not disingenuously defended in fantasy-land) absolutely do violate existing anti-discrimination statutes…

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Finally today’s:
Warning for ZosterSandstorm .
This is still talking about and hijacking the thread with CRT. You were specifically noted to stop. I’m going to discuss a topic ban on this subject with the other mods.

As of right now, you are banned from this thread. Hopefully you understand this instruction.

Virginia election-talk me down off the ledge

Why, it’s almost as if a normal moderate-Dem campaign that focused on normal moderate-Dem social issues in combination with the continued commitment to a normal moderate-Dem economic policy could have won in Virginia, like it did the last 13 times, and the decision to instead focus the entire race on an extreme, deeply unpopular education policy was a baffling own-goal. Imagine if someone had been saying that.

Ignored Modnote:

Virginia election-talk me down off the ledge

Modnote: Lets drop the CRT hijack immediately. You’re already arguing your pet topic in the pit aren’t you? Keep this up and I’ll suggest a topic ban.