US Politics |OT|

[Runa216]

zorg1000 said:

curl-6 said:

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9540326

Have the forum rules against flaming been discontinued without me noticing?
It's now okay to openly call another user a "dipshit" and face no repercussions?

Don’t worry, a moderator sent me a warning about it two days ago.

Obviously what I did was against forum rules, however, I find it concerning that you are more worried about me calling someone a mean name than you are about the guy who has a history of spreading racist, anti-immigrant misinformation.

This isn’t video games, it’s not like I insulted him over console wars or game sales or graphics, I insulted him because he’s spreading fake stories that are leading to violence against entire communities and when asked to be more responsible and make sure these stories are true before posting them, he goes on a tangent about free speech and says he thinks I’m about to call him a Nazi.

Happened to me, too. And it seems to be a pretty common thing in modern debate/politics. IT's perfectly fine to push racism, sexism, bigotry, transphobia, and other forms of intolerance and violent rhetoric as long as you skirt around the edges of being explicit. 

but call one person a cunt for saying cunty things? yeah that's a paddling. 

It's okay to be terrible, but it's not okay to call them terrible if they're being purposely infuriating and you're reacting appropriately angry. It's kinda gross.