EVE General Discussion

Let's say that I can't stand people who are the color green and I think all of their posts are more likely than not a waste of time to read. I know that it's racist but racism isn't immoral in and of itself, it's what you do with that racism. So say whenever I saw a green person posting I pressed the hide button, is that in some way morally wrong?

down at the bottom of the garden....

Well, I usually hide the posts of everyone that isn't me.


Makes roaming the forums soooo much easier

wonderbread mods hide my **** all the time.. thats aight tho cause i be hittin up they moms.

Down with Winmatards! Hit them with the nerf bat.

Transparent.

Everyone is racist to one degree or another.

Anyone who says they aren't is a lying racist.

Once people accept that simple fact and acknowledge that it is, in fact, OK, they are better equipped to deal with their racism.

Racism DOES NOT EQUAL discrimination.

This is the salient point most people miss.

You can very well choose to insulate yourself from this or that other race; what you do to yourself is irrelevant.

Not listening DOES NOT EQUAL censorship.

Really basic principles that, for some reason, seem to be far beyond the reach of the so-called "intelligentsia".

And lastly, at the end of the day and in the final equation, you cannot legislate thoughts or morality as perceived in the individual mind.

A person's thoughts are their own, regardless of whatever Orwellian nightmare construct you could propose.

How they act towards others, specifically in the physical, is the real issue.

Wrong.

When you ignore someone, you are performing an action on yourself, not the other person.

What you are suggesting would be the same as if I insisted, for instance, that you be subjected to 24/7 live feeds from, say, Fox networks ( assuming you are an MSNBC or other fan ) and decry you for discrimination should you protest or not comply.

Stop confusing internal actions with external actions.

I don't think Minigin posts anymore.

I'll see your sarcasm and raise you some truth.

Your tongue-in-cheek statement is, in fact, accurate.

To assume otherwise is to assert that I have some obligation to provide "input" to another against my will.

As far as who "gets hurt" by being ignored, that is absolutely hilarious irony considering the game to which this forum belongs, where the very term HTFU is mantra.

Far too many thin skinned people with entitlement complexes running about these days.

As for the rest of the post, sorry the analogy was lost on you. Pearls before swine and all that..

I am an American. Points of origin within the states are usually just cannon fodder for those who would stereotype, and as such I'll refrain from feeding the dragon.