Tone policing is when people ignore BruceZ's racist posts because the people who brought those racist posts to light were mean, using words like "racist" to describe them. The tone police comment only on the tone of the posts from people they don't like and ignore the rest.

I have no idea what chez thinks tone policing is, but his example does not square with common usage at all.

Yup. Also note is doesn't matter if the actual post was racist or if you show evidence why a post is racist, chez aint got time for all that reasoning.

The only proper response is to muse wistfully about racism for a hundred posts without ever, ever, ever coming close to making a point or challenging a racist statement.

So if an non-racist ignores or rejects a false accussation of racism, or a nice person responds to intentionally mean behavior by stating it is stupid and ignorant, they are not tone policing, but if a troll tells a critic to shut up - that is tone policing?

Indeed it's not. It's not possible for wookie to tone police me let alone me to tone police him.

They would argue that they are addressing the fact their tone is objected to and not the tone with which that objected is made. Others could argue much the same in reverse a lot of the time of course.

In practice you can't really separate the content and delivery most of the time when it comes to this sort of stuff. If trolly trolled in a pleasing manner then it wouldn't be trolling, as it is the grin nearly suffices for him.

Depends. Are they making an argument that the proposed racism is not racist, or are they just saying "You call everything racist!"

This is tone policing if the mean behavior contains an argument that is ignored.

Nah, that's not really tone policing. The troll here is just telling the critic to shut up rather than commenting on the critic's tone.

Ya, but you tend to target the poster, rather than the post, so your analysis is not very applicable here. Probably relevant to why why you are still stuck with a poor, angry analysis of Bruce's posts. It's no fun calling posts racist to see if they have a meltdown, is it?

Seriously? 'tone policing' is something oppressors do to the oppressed and under-privileged.

it doesn't justify anyone behaving however they like on the internet. If you don't think that posters in your forum should behave like half decent people then just say so.

Remember though, Chez is here to discuss the issues and not whine about moderation or the tone of posts.

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Absolutely. Now we are in an appropriate place to discuss your obsessions.

As last time it came up, I have a high regard for wookies modding. I think he should have done this earlier when you first decided it was a good idea to tard up so many forums but no biggee.

I think you'd have much more success getting through to LG if you didn't call him a tard.

You just can't get rid of posts about Brucez; you think they're gone and they come back like cockroaches!

Segregating these posts about Brucez into Politics Unchained instead of Politics is not biased. After all they are separate, but equally nice places to post.

Do you think he actually cares if some issues I raise are anything to do with Bruce or not.

(I didn't call him a tard btw I was referring to what he causes to happen to the threads. His a tard generator if you prefer).

I haven't seen it, but strictly going on the rather positive/non-reaction from the intelligent but easily riled/activist parts of black twitter that I follow I don't think the "Empire is racist" dog hunts.

This thread is 9 pages of people arguing with a couple of rocks that grew typing hands.

The term "tard" is so inflammatory, though, even if you're directing it at his posts rather than at him. It's a term people can't help but take personally.

I'm not directing it at his posts either. It's directed at the stream of posts his Brucez posts generates. The tarding up included my post in response as well.

Directing your inflammatory language at more people than just LG doesn't help you get your point across any better.

Sorry, I'll try harder next time. Its much better now as I'm sure LG will now just post it here in the first place.

More blacks and a higher percentage of them are doing better today than ever before. So I don’t have a reason not to be optimistic nor to think any obstacles between the current and ideal states are insurmountable.

Well, that's where we differ. If Lincoln sexed up 10 y/o girls, I'd wretch thinking about it, but I would understand it was a different time when that was commonplace. Even if he started doing it when he was 16, along the way society's view on adulthood continued evolving and at 25 he realized, "hey, this is ****ed up," but kept doing it the rest of his life, I'd think that what he did was scummy, but it was a transitional period in history when people were coming to grips with it and he was all too human, but still a great man for all his other accomplishments. Today, if I saw someone doing that, I might murder him with my bare hands.

“Hi, I’m Duffee and I’m an institutional racist.”

That sort of racism doesn’t take particulars particularly well.

As a demonstration for spank and chez, this^ is tone policing.

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As a demonstration for you it was played with a straight bat.

Now when your ready to explain why it's Ok for people in P to fail to behave like half decent human beings then please do so. They are not oppressed people with difficulty making themselves heard.

Chez whining about moderation. The usual usual