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It has been a little while now that this fledgling community has been around and it remains one of my favorite stories about communities. A splinter of a much larger community took it upon themselves to challenge the rest and make a move to a new home. Shedding the shackles that were being placed on them was a bold move, but one that has been fantastic.
The community here is great, but here is my question. Overall, we are amazingly tolerant of others, of the choices they make, and of their beliefs. I would then be curious, if we are such a tolerant group, how do we address intolerance in our ranks? I recently came across what I can only say filled me with pity and sadness. I find it saddening that in this day and age, and especially in this group, there are still such hate-filled people.
But this poses a question: how does a group that is tolerant deal with intolerance within it's ranks? Does our acceptance of others extend to accepting someone that has thoughts and beliefs which are far from the norm within this community, or is there a limit placed on how far from our own values a member of the community may be?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 13 2014, @07:43PM
You can't blame us for taking you at face value - at least one of your faces. If you don't want people to think you're a racist then stop posting racist things simply so you can deny being a racist and claim you are being judged unfairly.
You don't get to play both sides of the issue and claim we are intolerant of you. We don't have to put up with your hate. Our contempt for you is based on one thing and only one thing: you. It's not about race or religion or anything else. It is not because you belong to some "group". It's simple: you are going out of your way to post inflammatory racist hate speech and them crying "foul" when people don't like it.
If you post a bunch of non-racist things along with some racist things then you are a racist. The fact that you "like it here" has nothing to do with you posting your racist hate speech. You "like it here" because you you've been allowed to post your racist crap.