Anyone who uses the term Islamophobia in a non ironic way is a ****ing moron in my books.

lmao

I've seen plenty of conservative regulars in this forum report posts, btw, so uh this is all just the false image of big tough conservatives mongidig has built up in his head.

Could you give some examples of how you'd like to talk?

I propose changing the forum name to "Politics Rechained".

I also propose Well Named makes a hostile takeover and ousts Chez and WhosNext.

No, nobody cares.

i have no problem with the P forum, i just think its named improperly. they should call it the lefty lounge or something like that. its a place for leftys to hang out and socialize. theres nothing wrong with that but dont sucker people in to believing its open for actual political discussion. they allow leftys and easy targets on the right. they enjoy a good punching bag but blow their brains out when faced with an actual debate. it took me a couple hours to get banned for sexism without warning for saying "you are so susceptible to junk science propagated by womens study groups who generate confirmation bias through flawed methodology". this is a true statement and speaks to everything wrong with political discussion today. not only is denying this absurdly ignorant, but dismissing the notion as sexist immediately is comically ignorant. this isn't the place to break down all the aspects that make this type of post being censored a disaster, but it is a disaster

i obviously dont care about pc or insults. the only type of moderation i would like to see become more strict is low content posts. if someone formulates an actual thought or argument that contains insulting or offensive material, i dont care. what gets tiring is all of the low content posters contributing nothing but petty insults and empty derails. i think handing out temp bans a repeat offenders would do the forum good. 1 or 2 day timeouts would probably do the trick

To be fair your text walls are difficult to read.

To be clear, there is no longer a "PC" rule. If I may make an analogy, you could think of this forum as though you were invited to a house party by an acquaintance from work, where there are a lot of people you don't know very well. You are welcome to discuss almost anything you want, but if you take a **** on the carpet the hosts might ask you to leave. In other words, there are some pretty basic rules which really only amount to asking everyone to act with some common decency.

mongidig is a transparent troll and should be permaed.

Special snowflake mongi is just triggered that he's expected to act like an adult, unlike his god emperor trump

You'll have to tell me what you disagree with me about some time. It sounds interesting.

That sounds good. Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm one of the few people here who hasn't had a timeout.

And yet you're still whining

You would get perma'd by your own low content rule. You cannot even cite your sources lol.

Also Mat... shut this **** show down. Good lord man.

Wait. Holdup. So we can discuss racism or we can't? In a nice manner, I mean.

I'm pretty sure I have the record here, by far, of posts getting deleted for clowning on you f**kfaces. The part of you that isn't mouthbreathing is delusional.

We have been discussing racism. I tried to give some idea of what I think the bounds are in #56:

So, to make an example I think posts like this are border-line:

I am inclined to allow discussions about the role of "culture" in socio-economic stratification because a) it is a widely held view among American conservatives that "culture" explains more than discrimination and b) because not all discussions of the role of culture are problematic. Cf. the book you referenced in the Free Speech thread, which I discussed in my last reply to you.

But, to state that an entire ethnic group shares a "culture of victimhood", to deny their agency in politics by asserting that they are uniquely duped by a different group of people, to deny the existence and history of racism despite the overwhelming amount of evidence to the contrary? All of that is a pretty good example of making dehumanizing over-generalizations about a group of people. it's also, of course, a standard part of contemporary racist ideology in the US, and a standard line among white supremacists. I'm not referencing it to call out JiggyMac specifically, but it just happened and it's a pretty good example of the limits of my tolerance, I think.

The house party analogy is useful here too. I think discussions about racial stratification can be productive, but people should show some common decency towards their fellow human beings.

And, it's just stupid as ****.

I mean, we can't have a metadiscussion without admitting that fact.

I don't understand this sentiment. Why do you care? Don't come here if you don't like it. I enjoy, from time to time, to discuss politics. Juans assesment of the other politics forum is correct. It should be called Leftys Lounge. Ppl with alternative opinions aren't welcomed there.

If Juan truly was banned for that quote he mentioned, that's a joke. And that's why this forum is useful.

Go away gimmick boy.

This forum turned into a hang out for racist and sexist trolls who cannot even cite their sources (like Juan) instead of what it was originally for... calling each other ****heads.

It should be shutdown. If people cannot discuss issues like normal folks do in the regular P forum (including Republican posters like SL and Renodoc) then they should be SoL.

So essentially I need to not say what I truly think anymore to post here. Is that a fair assessment?

I'm not sure if I should give points to wil for being brutally honest if he's not even aware he's being brutally honest. I'm gonna need a judges' ruling.

But good God even McCarthy didn't respond with, "No, sir, no I do not have any sense of decency left."