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Originally Posted by Villian1
Maybe I'm reading it wrong in the MD Live thread but "georgetown" seems to talking a lot of **** about poor people and how he would much rather play against middle/upper class players. It just seems like a weird stance to take and I don't think income should be a topic of discussion in a LCP thread that is currently addressing player's behavior. He's blatantly saying that poor people are *******s and shouldn't have the right to play poker. Is this ok? Try replacing "poor" with "black" and see how it sounds
First, if you find a post objectionable, you should click the "report post" button on the post to ensure it gets reviewed by the moderators (rather than posting about it here).
To the extent that you want to know whether to post should be reported/moderated...
When I read it the first time (just after it was posted), I found it distasteful, but not abhorrent enough to delete. I didn't think he was intentionally trying to be controversial or start an argument, he was expressing an opinion about a poker room issue and it came up tangentially. And, as far as I can tell from a quick skim, no one else seems to have responded to it, so I would have been fine if it just sunk into oblivion.
Does it violate any forum or 2+2 rules? I don't think we have explicit rules against racist (or, in this case, classist I guess) postings, but we generally evaluate these sorts of posts on a case by case basis, and would delete any that any of us thought crossed the line. I'm not sure that happened here, but the other mods might feel differently.