Posted on 05/29/2014 6:10:52 AM PDT by csvset
Bye.
Catching up here...We got two 98'ers riding the lightning off racist posts?
Probably your best play at this point. One thing that has never varied is intolerance for racism. Just because the left has co-opted the term does not mean that the actual evil is all gone away. That mess has no place here. Were it otherwise, I would not be here.
If you are straight up, you have nothing to fear if Jim is alerted to a problematic comment. I generally let the “abuse” but take care of that.
I thought you were taking your marbles and going somewhere else.
Agree there’s no place for it but would like to express a distaste for his comments with reply and maybe swing his viewpoints in a different direction. There is always a possibility :-)
Marbles was tongue in cheek to bring a bit of humor into the fray.
Pretty much anything can be a weapon. Peanuts given to someone who is extremely allergic can kill. High heel shoes have been used to murder. Ban strippers, no wait they are all paying their way thru nursing school by stripping.
It seems to me that the methods used to murder are getting more horrific with each passing day. The excuses used to justify murder are more trivial each day. Collateral damage is just that, a two year old is collateral damage.
We have all had an instant where the impulse to hurt or kill someone else has come and gone without being acted on, the problem is that some people do act on them. Life is becoming cheaper with each passing day and will continue until the Second Coming.
I see a couple of things that I believe cause much of this type of action. One is heavy drug use, it rewires the brain permanently making impulse control harder if not impossible for the afflicted. A prime example is our esteemed president who while supposedly going after a dangerous terrorist, kills an American 16 year old. Any remorse coming from the White House, any condemnation that amounted to anything from any branch of government that has the power to do anything about it. Not enough to notice.
I also think that we ignore the fact that blacks in Africa kill each other and also target and kill other races so often that it is not even newsworthy. In Rwanda blacks of one tribe hacked to death blacks of another with machetes and farm tools, in the hundreds of thousands. Blacks in South Africa killed white farmers and raped and killed their wives. These are facts not racist BS and we ignore them at our own peril.
Read a little of ‘White girl bleed alot’, and see the reality of today’s world.
I don’t see myself as a racist, I tend to judge people by their actions, and have met an know people of all races that are good people and do their best to live good lives. But there are among us in all races the hard hearted and the murderous, that one race seems to display these traits more often than others is just the reality.
We must ban all assault cars
We did, anyway. Comments are gone now, but I often check join dates of the worst posters at FR, and 1998, 2000 and 2008 seem to be especially well-represented.
Last gasp of the Great Clinton lovers, the freaks spawned by the scorched-earth War on America because a Republican won, and the no-way-I’m-voting-for-a-Morman crowd.
Beyond that, Doc Savage was nuked. Instead of the "banned or suspended" page, you get the "nobody by that name" page
Dang, he got the “Stalin” treatment.
Decent thought. Let us pray...
Considering you’re a newbie here - joined on 2/6/14 - we don’t need a lecture from you on how Jim Rob should use our donations to run this site!!!
“We must ban all assault cars”
I agree with one caveat; replace assault automobiles with semi-automobiles fitted with three-gallon gas tanks.
What those individuals said was pulled before I saw it, or I'd likely be berating them for it while defending their right to be wrong.
I've seen a website with commentary that noted something like "comment collapsed by community" instead of pulling the comment. You could click on the notation and view the offending comment. How difficult would that be to add here?
Double zots. Wow..and class of 1998.
That's right. Just because one donates does not mean that one thereby has any influence or control over how the site is run. People who don't like it can leave. Or just stop donating.
However, it's getting hard to know where the line is. One sees comments like "Typical Amish" and that doesn't get the zot. One sees threads on black crime, with comments expressing unhappiness about the level of black crime, and that doesn't get the zot. One can even post about the observably lower level of intellectual achievements of the black community (lower SAT scores, no hard-science Nobel prizes, etc), and not get the zot.
More than posting a racist comment. It involved the death of a two year old child.
Pretty darn low.
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