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Mod History for The_Yoda

I know this wasn't aimed at me but it is interesting, I didn't spend a great deal of time there. Are you going to add the link to your OP?

Because your question can't be answered with a simple yes or no and not because he is a racist. 

Some races have higher IQ, on average, than the rest. Some races have bigger tools, on average, than the rest. Some are longer, some are shorter etc. So fatslob can't answer your question with a simple yes or no. No matter how inconvenient it is, if we are going by a determined metric, some race is superior than the rest (again, on average). I disagree with Fatslob a lot and I think his approach to any discussion can be too mathematical. But peddling racial statistics, that some might find inconvenient, doesn't make one racist.

I think the only time I thought he was going too far when he was arguing that having a higher IQ means you're superior to others and that you'll achieve more in life or something. But looking at the questions he asked you above, he seems to acknowledge there are other metrics to go by, therefore, he wasn't able to answer your question. So even if I detected hints of racism in his opinion in the past, it doesn't mean he holds the same opinion right now. Behold the power of the free-market of ideas! Who knew It could change people's minds! 

Pro tip: a racist will never change his mind... 

Nah, that's not true and the same holds for vice versa. Nothing in the real world has to be indefinitely certain aside from maybe the physical laws ... 

Hell, one day the concept of eugenics may gain popularity again given the progression of medical science therefore modern society could very likely come to reconcile with an aspect common to nazism ironically. It becomes too tempting to not consider the idea of germline modification once we get better at the identification and come with superior disposable tools ... 

When I look at genetically modified crops I'm a firm believer that we can do far more than just discarding embyros right now ...

He's basically arguing that "superiority" is rooted in a subjective basis ... 

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=235268

I am predicting it right now. This is going to be a fun thread for the next couple weeks.........

But he dissed anime!

The comment was either made in ignorance or faux ignorance done for shock value, unless you really think there’s a fair argument that Japanese is a dead language or Dragonball is an obscure IP. I found it on the hairy edge of warning and 1-day ban for mild trolling, but leaned towards the latter due to the user’s history.

I don’t know what you’re referencing with the Latin America comment, but like most “what about?” defenses, I’d guess it’s a combination of different circumstances, user history, or just that the moderation team never saw the potential offense.

I see now, I misunderstood his statement. I still would find calling “Latin American” a dead language to be trolling though, since the person he was replying to was only speaking about the region and not the language (which I would assume speak a variation of Spanish or Portuguese anyway).

Latin Americans are people from regions originally colonized by Portugal and Spain (languages that are very close in structure and vocabulary to Latin).

There's no one actually speaking Latin at all (no more than in the US or UK, at least).

I'd suggest that any official moderation activity that is posted within a thread be given some sort of tag so that users know what's going on. Something as simple as *moderation* or *warning* would do the trick. In some cases, comments that are made by moderators in a normal, conversational style are considered official acts. This confuses me, and likely confuses others as well. Several times I've had to look for the moderator badge to determine whether a comment was joking, trolling, or moderating.