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Leadified said:
Aeolus451 said:

What do you mean?

From my earlier post: "Contestgamer's points sounds like it could come from either the far left or far right if you change up a few points."

Hmmm. I can agree with that to a point but the left in general has a tendency to produce totalitarian/authoritarian goverments because those ideologies require a great deal of control over government, society and economy to fully implement what they want. With the far right, it's the same thing but it's rarer because those ideologies don't have much of any power. 



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Tulipanzo said:
monocle_layton said:

Lawlight ignores facts to specifically make liberals seem bad??? The horror!

You're saying having multiple threads with blatant ignorance and nazism apologism on the front is actually a good look for the site?
Look at this thread and tell me if people here are criticizing an actual political ideology or rather making up one to be angry at. 
These threads aren't for discussion, they are for pandering

Who's apologizing  for nazism? Talk about making up strawmen. At least SJWs/progressives are a real thing.



Tulipanzo said:
monocle_layton said:

Lawlight ignores facts to specifically make liberals seem bad??? The horror!

You're saying having multiple threads with blatant ignorance and nazism apologism on the front is actually a good look for the site?
Look at this thread and tell me if people here are criticizing an actual political ideology or rather making up one to be angry at. 
These threads aren't for discussion, they are for pandering

Of course it's terrible. However, for some reason people on here can talk shit about liberals and Middle Easterners, but the moment I call them out for their bullshit I get banned.

It's fucking stupid, but it's not my loss. 



Tulipanzo said:
Doesn't this ever get tiring to you?
Every other day you seem to post a story to rile people up and get everyone arguing over nothing.

In this case you reported a story omitting the fact that the reason of the firing being over a racial joke is no more than guesswork on the part of Reginald Mobley.
As for Matthew Halls, the University said Mobley's report was "incorrect", and gave him $90000 for his troubles. Guy seems like he's going to be fine.
Not exactly world going mad stuff.

However the particular story is irrelevant, what I find troubling is the trend of posting misinformed, incomplete or not up to date stories for the purpose of ragebait, on what is ostensibly a gaming forum.
These "stories" again mostly function as a reaction to non-existant "SJWs" backlash, and only foments anger as no actual discussion is taking place in the real world.
This only makes the forums look unfriendly and bent on "fighting the feminist/leftist/marxist agenda", which aren't exactly hallmarks of quality or of worthwhile discussion.
The forums would be better if you stopped using them as a place to dump your poor excuses to rail on "SJWs" and other strawmen.

Neither report says anything conclusive about the situation. It also ended in a settlement without disclosing any facts.

Not entirely a reassuring factor. UO was the only one to say anything about it and to quickly say "It was Incorrect".

To say that SJW backlash isn't exactly warranted, you best take a good look at the confirmism going on in America right now.  To the point that they're trying to inject it to other nations. I'm glad my workplace is a ltitle bit lax and I don't have to deal about Locker Room jokes being a big issue just because someone wanted to leverage from it.



Lawlight said:

This is week on world gone mad, another case similar to that where a student was expelled from a university for abusing his gf even though the latter says nothing of the sort happened. This time around a university fired a music conductor has been fired for making a "racist" joke with his friend. The friend, who is black, says there was nothing racist about it but we all know how liberal universities work - just hearsay is enough, no due process...

 

An acclaimed British conductor has been fired from a prestigious American music festival after a seemingly innocent joke he made to a black friend was labelled racist.

Matthew Halls was removed as artistic director of the Oregon Bach Festival following an incident in which he imitated a southern American accent while talking to his longstanding friend, the African-American classical singer Reginald Mobley.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/09/british-conductor-sacked-us-music-festival-joke-labelled-racist/amp/

This week on the world gone mad another pointless thread take your meds and go to bed already.

 

Warned ~ CGI



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ClassicGamingWizzz said:
monocle_layton said:

Of course it's terrible. However, for some reason people on here can talk shit about liberals and Middle Easterners, but the moment I call them out for their bullshit I get banned.

It's fucking stupid, but it's not my loss. 

Looking at this and other threads, vgchartz seems to be heaven to them. I wonder what ioi  thinks of this, too bad he does  not give a shit anymore.

They know they can abuse freedom of speech

 

One user made a claim that 'leftist' ABC cancelled a show because the main actor is conservative. Truth was that the show was simply ass, and I called him out on his bullshit and got a ban.

 

If the rules favour these people, then fuck it.



ClassicGamingWizzz said:
monocle_layton said:

Of course it's terrible. However, for some reason people on here can talk shit about liberals and Middle Easterners, but the moment I call them out for their bullshit I get banned.

It's fucking stupid, but it's not my loss. 

Looking at this and other threads, vgchartz seems to be heaven to them. I wonder what ioi  thinks of this, too bad he does  not give a shit anymore.

What are you guys going on about? There's alot more left leaning people on this forum. It's just some of the right leaning are just vocal about their opinions on current events and point out actual cases of the sjw craziness. Ya guys post threads that the only purpose of them is an excuse to use trump as a pinata and conflate trump supporters with neo-nazis. At least, try to take as well ya can give. 



monocle_layton said:
ClassicGamingWizzz said:

Looking at this and other threads, vgchartz seems to be heaven to them. I wonder what ioi  thinks of this, too bad he does  not give a shit anymore.

They know they can abuse freedom of speech

 

One user made a claim that 'leftist' ABC cancelled a show because the main actor is conservative. Truth was that the show was simply ass, and I called him out on his bullshit and got a ban.

 

If the rules favour these people, then fuck it.

You're taking this stuff too personally. You should either take a short breather or stay away from political threads. You likely got banned because of the way you called him out on it and not because you called him out. Just relax a bit. I don't like seeing people getting banned for taking this stuff personally and taking their posts too far. 



monocle_layton said:

Of course it's terrible. However, for some reason people on here can talk shit about liberals and Middle Easterners, but the moment I call them out for their bullshit I get banned.

It's fucking stupid, but it's not my loss. 

I'll leave you off the hook for talking about moderations in an unrelated thread, but take that discussion where it is more appropriate.



Aeolus451 said:
monocle_layton said:

They know they can abuse freedom of speech

 

One user made a claim that 'leftist' ABC cancelled a show because the main actor is conservative. Truth was that the show was simply ass, and I called him out on his bullshit and got a ban.

 

If the rules favour these people, then fuck it.

You're taking this stuff too personally. You should either take a short breather or stay away from political threads. You likely got banned because of the way you called him out on it and not because you called him out. Just relax a bit. I don't like seeing people getting banned for taking this stuff personally and taking their posts too far. 

It's not that I'm upset or going nuts over this. However, if someone calls every person who disagrees with them a SJW and goes nuts in the Infowars scale, why shouldn't I say his claims are fucking stupid? If I went around saying blatantly dishonest statements, it shouldn't be a rule violation if I'm called a dumbass.

 

These threads do nothing but rally people to mock X group, whether it'd be liberals or people from Alabama.