Mr Khan said:
Opinions can be categorically wrong, or simply too offensive to tolerate. I could say "hey, i think the Chinese are a bunch of lawless hooligans. They're not fit to govern themselves, imho." "It's like, my opinion bro," is not a valid shield behind which to make baseless statements that degrade the level of discourse. It didn't fly when one user was relentlessly bashing Muslims in the latest Israel-Palestine thread, and it doesn't fly here. (and to say that we are being equal opportunity about it, it doesn't fly when a certain user goes off on his rants about Christians, either) Now there is a degree of subjectivity that comes into matters like that, as there are such things as acceptable targets (like the Star Wars prequels, for instance. If we treated bashing of all things equally, i would have to clean house ine very star wars thread that comes up), but current consoles do not fall under that domain. |
You simply cannot equate racial insensitivity to what Sensei commented. Calling someone a name is very different from what was said. They didn't comment that "Nintendo sucks", or "Nintendo is already dead", which cannot be backed up with any reasonable shred of evidence. But saying that the Wii U's graphical potential has already been reached isn't out of the realm of discussion. One could argue that the titles within the launch window of any previous Nintendo console showed the system's full potential. Sure, art styles improved, graphics engines evolved, but the muscle of the system was always on display up front.
Just because Sensei didn't say a few more words like I did in order to back up their opinion, it doesn't mean that his idea wasn't valid and rational. And others can argue against that point of view, that's valid as well. Especially considering that we can't prove that Sensei is wrong at this point, I just don't see where a moderator has the right to step in. It was not worthy of moderation (or threats), and I maintain my stance that it seems to be unfair censorship.
