Kaelik wrote:Heaven's Thunder Hammer wrote:I thought the tranny remark was funny too. If people want to get all offended over an in joke.... They can go back to rpg.net and commune with other thin skinned social justice warriors where people get banned for this sort of thing. I personally have had enough pc censorship on the Internet.
Oh look, guy who joined in May of 2014 and has 50 posts is telling us that we don't belong on TGD if we care about things like racism, sexism, and transphobia, because he knows the attitude of TGD better than us.
You're right, I haven't been here long enough to see if people get banned for airing heterodox opinions. I was under the impression that this place did not ban people except for the truly obnoxious like Shadzar or whatever his name was.
rpg.net bans people for all sorts of thin skinned stuff. No one's feelings are allowed to be hurt, ever, or be offended, ever. If you accidentally hurt or offend someone's feelings there, you can expect to get warnings, and if you keep it up, banned.
For example, saying furries are people experiencing some kind of mental health problem, will get you a warning because "there are other-kin here and we need to be sensitive to their feelings."
DSMatticus, you're right, saying "PC censorship" really does bring up a host of associations that I didn't necessarily intend. It's just irritating to see that something people were having some genuine chuckles about gets turned into "EVERYONE AT TGDMB HATES TRANSVESTITES WHAT KIND OF BIGOTS ARE YOU GUYS?!"
Sometimes things are funny because they're inappropriate or off color and that's part of the humor. No one is talking about actually mistreating transvestites, no one is talking about actually going out an DOING mean things to transvestites, and I highly doubt anyone here has any interest in actually being a dick to transvestites in real life.
I'm of the opinion we should let people say what they want to say, what they really feel... Because how else are you going to change people's minds? Demanding self censorship beyond a certain point seems to actually create more prejudice and bigotry.
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fearsomepirate wrote:
If an active, malicious conspiracy by a tiny cabal of old, rich, white, Christian, politically conservative men is so thoroughly capable of repressing blacks in literally every aspect of life (except sports) even in progressive-dominated cities in progressive-dominated states like Boston and Baltimore, we wouldn't see Asians beating whites in anything, and the pay gap should be a lot larger than 6%. We shouldn't see the most-educated, highest-educated people in the country voting Democrat, either.
The "old, rich, white, heterosexual, conservative, Christian men don't want brown people, gays, and women to succeed" just isn't a good explanation.
Except no one here is saying that.
Yes, they are, implicitly, by endlessly going on how privileged I am for being an anglo-saxon white male! As if I'm part of a cabal with secret meetups every week with other white dudes on how to keep brown people down. I am implicitly being called a racist, there's an immediate insinuation that there's something
wrong with being a white male, when I'm told I have "privilege", as if there's something I must immediately do, or say, to show that I'm not one of
those white guys. You know, the
racist ones.
There is absolutely nothing I can do about changing my gender or skin color, so going on how privileged I am
just alienates me. Telling people, who really don't feel privileged, (i.e. middle class white men), whom, in their own society are not that privileged, that they are in fact, very privileged and some kind of oppressor is, IMO, really stupid and causes way more problems than it solves.
When I think of "privilege" - I think of wealthy people with status and influence, who have no need to work, servants, long vacations to tropical countries, own art, have expensive cars, and beautiful clothes etc. That IS MOST DEFINITELY privilege, of which, I have NONE.
Telling me I am "privileged"
is an insult, it is intended as an insult, so when I act insulted for being insulted, one should not actually be surprised.