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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: 3, Interesting) by Hairyfeet on Sunday April 13 2014, @09:01PM
I believe in the old saying "Your rights end where your fist meets my nose" and with somebody like Ethanol he is NOT being "edgy", he is an outright racist and all he does is troll and derail threads, which was why he ended up getting kicked out of Slashdot.
But frankly there is no need to "do anything about him" if the moderation system is functional because that is EXACTLY what mods and metamods are designed to handle. if EF acts like a douche? His comment gets buried, if he keeps acting like a douche? His account gets buried in karma hell, simple as that.
The problem i have with banning anybody, even when their viewpoints are so disgusting, is the fact that my grandfather fought in WWII and came home in a full body cast from a Nazi Werewulf squad dropping a wall on him yet he supported the Illinois Nazis right to march. he taught me that you fight ignorance with debate and facts NOT by removing their right to be heard, the fact that we had free speech and all subjects were open to debate was what made us on the right in WWII and he firmly believed that until his dying day.
I have seen this approach works first hand as when I was living in Dallas I came across some skinheads using illegals as a tool to recruit, I promptly went around the corner to the craft shop and made up my own little sign that read "ask me about the camps" and anybody who did I told them of my grandfather's experience in WII, especially what he saw entering the camps, about how the boidies were piled up like cordwood, that you couldn't tell male from female, needless to say the skinheads were WAY pissed but the cops, with a big fat smile I might add, said "you have the right to speak, he has the right to rebut" and they quickly packed up and went away.So let EF be as big a bigot as he wants to be, those of us in the community can bury his posts when he spreads his racist shit and by fighting his bullshit with fats might even educate a few people.
Oh and in the interest of honesty? I'm for locking down the border, but not because I fear Mexicans but because an open border not only penalizes those that put in the hard work to come here legally but scumbags like MS13 have taken advantage of the wide open borders to set up a thriving sexual slavery business, with children as young as 6 being bought and sold and the money being used to buy ex-Soviet heavy weapons which are being used to take more and more territory away from the control of law enforcement. All in all its a REALLY bad situation, the illegals are being abused, put in unsafe working conditions, and risk enslavement, the gangs can make money hand over fist, frankly the only ones who see a "positive" from a lawless border is those companies who want to depress wages and profit from other's misery and they can go DIAF as far as I'm concerned.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.