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WCDT 2056-2060; Nov. 14-18, 2011
AnAverageWriter:
--- Quote from: Tova on 17 Nov 2011, 19:41 ---He was banned because his views were unacceptably sexist, not because they were different.
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Unacceptably sexist to you. To me. To pwhodges. Heck, from what it seemed like to the group.
And yet-
Culturally the concept of "unacceptably sexist" is simply nothing but a different worldview, a different viewpoint. So there you go.
Dr. ROFLPWN:
--- Quote from: AnAverageWriter on 17 Nov 2011, 19:36 ---
--- Quote from: Tova on 17 Nov 2011, 19:18 ---Just because I didn't quote it all, doesn't mean I didn't read it all. And I wasn't 'baffled'
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And I quote: "How you managed to draw that conclusion from the post pwhodges made is totally beyond my comprehension."
I love people who pretend they can't read a post. PW clearly stated that he didn't "believe there was any intent to troll"- that the ban was a result instead of "repeated expression of unacceptable sexist views". This would mean that stoutfiles was banned for the entirely unintentional occurrence of having views (the "unacceptable sexist views") that differed significantly from the viewpoint of the group.
--- Quote --- there was no justification for your post.
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You know, it makes sense to me now that a muppet would be your main avatar.
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Oh for fuck's sake. :mrgreen: Yes, stoutfiles was banned for his viewpoints, because his viewpoints were sexist. It's much like how if someone came in here and started slinging crap about Padma based on her race, or Tai for her sexual orientation, they would also get fucking banned and the admin would be correct to ban them.
If you feel so strongly that stoutfiles was right I suggest you join him in exile.
EDIT: CULTURALLY THE CONCEPT OF "UNACCEPTABLY RACIST" IS ALSO NOTHING BUT A DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT. YET NO ONE IS GOING TO TOLERATE IT BECAUSE THE VIEWPOINT IS REPUGNANT. DO YOU GET IT YET.
Tova:
--- Quote from: AnAverageWriter on 17 Nov 2011, 19:45 ---Culturally the concept of "unacceptably sexist" is simply nothing but a different worldview, a different viewpoint. So there you go.
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Yes, I'm sure you could say that about quite a lot of 'different' viewpoints.
The point is that it was clearly inflammatory, and almost caused a riot on the forums when he first posted it. He was probably even spoken to about it behind the scenes. Note, he didn't get banned for that at that point.
He got banned when he posted it again, when it obviously would have known by that point how inflammatory that view was. And when he really didn't need to - his views by that point were well known. To post it again was needlessly provocative.
My point is that people don't get banned merely for having a different viewpoint. Look, here - I'll post a viewpoint different from that of pwhodges. In repeating a viewpoint he knew to be inflammatory, IMHO he was trolling.
Let's see if I get banned.
I don't think I will, though.
Overkillengine:
--- Quote from: Tova on 17 Nov 2011, 19:22 ---Except he wanted to go?
Actually, he wasn't moping about being invited; he was moping about his lack of dancing ability.
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And he still could have turned it down on the basis of lack of dancing ability. Attraction does not make one a slave to the invitations of the person whom one is attracted to.
westrim:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 17 Nov 2011, 17:48 ---
--- Quote from: Westrim on 17 Nov 2011, 16:40 ---I don't see why people are arguing about town bicycles. I think every town should have some bicycles. They could be rented for an hour at a time and have a large basket in the back to carry purchases and such, and maybe get a few more people out of their cars, especially all the tourists stopping to look at trees like they're an alien invasion. If Padma is advocating something like that, I would be happy to get behind her on it.
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Just so you know, I laughed reading this.
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I figured the thread required some levity. Some of the people chatting right now need a mustache ride. :{
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