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Is accusing another poster of racism an offence?

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    BuffyBot
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    Why didn't you report the post(s) in question?


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    Black Uhlan
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    BuffyBot wrote: »
    Why didn't you report the post(s) in question?

    I did and in fairness thats not what I asked. I don't want
    anyone to be banned; i just want to know for future reference.


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    BuffyBot
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    The post(s) in question weren't reported. To do so you need to use the report.gif button on the left when you see a questionable post.

    As for whats acceptable - it depends on the context in which is was posted. Saying "some people" are casually racist is hardly an issue - it way well be true. It's seperated out from a comment about your username (which is not massively inaccurate, from my reading).

    It's you that is transforming the first statement into an attack against you. Neither of you come out covered in glory there.


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    Black Uhlan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 283 ✭✭Black Uhlan


    BuffyBot wrote: »
    The post(s) in question weren't reported. To do so you need to use the report.gif button on the left when you see a questionable post.

    Cheers!
    BuffyBot wrote: »
    As for whats acceptable - it depends on the context in which is was posted. Saying "some people" are casually racist is hardly an issue - it way well be true.
    BuffyBot wrote: »
    So it's ok to call a group of posters racists and anti-semites if "it may well be true" without backing up the statement in any form whatsoever?

    Nobody said "some people" what was said was "some posters on the CT forum" which is completely different I am sure you would agree.
    BuffyBot wrote: »
    It's seperated out from a comment about your username (which is not massively inaccurate, from my reading).

    Look Max Schmelling had a Jewish manager, saved two Jewish children and refused to join the Nazi party. He is in NO WAY a symbol of nazism whatsoever, it is a insult to the man to suggest otherwise. I am a fan. Are all Muhammad Ali fans black seperatists? or Evander Holyfield fans Born-Again Christians? Or Tyson fans rapists?
    BuffyBot wrote: »
    It's you that is transforming the first statement into an attack against you. Neither of you come out covered in glory there.

    Perhaps you could tell me which rules I have broken then?


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    BuffyBot
    Registered Users Posts: 24,924 ✭✭✭✭BuffyBot


    Nobody said "some people" what was said was "some posters on the CT forum" which is completely different I am sure you would agree.

    No, it isn't really. Both are possibilities.
    He is in NO WAY a symbol of nazism whatsoever

    He may not have chosen to be, but it didn't stop some people from chosing to see him that way. However that's not relevant to the debate here.

    You're choosing to see his comments as being directed at you, you decided to sling some mud back - hence my comment about neither of you being covered in glory. You both dragged the thread off topic.

    Anyway, this thread hasn't much more life - in future report objectionable posts, don't take the threads off course, and don't sling mud back at the other party. It helps no one, especially the complainant.


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