[serious] Off Topic Moderation Input - Part 2

[Alexander's Horse]

Please allow us to thank our own posts.

We should allow it providing you promise to stop reminding everyone that you were one of the first registered here, how you found the site in those days God only knows, a much more interesting topic,

and there is a general distribution of celebratory chocolate. In fact, why don't we replace thanks with chocolate?

[Colon™]

Are you peeved I still haven't given you a thanks?

[Alexander's Horse]

wasn't aware of it, I'll take chocolate

[SlowwHand]

Chocolate? :ears up, nostrils flared:

[Colon™]

wasn't aware of it, I'll take chocolate

Hey, if you don't like my not-so casual reminders I was here before the rabble joined, then I'm certainly not giving a thanks. Nuh-uh.

[Alexander's Horse]

I don't mind that, but remind us how you found the site so early

[Colon™]

Don't need to, you've done more reminding than I have the past half year or so. Besides, you wanted chocolates instead.

[Alexander's Horse]

[DaShi]

Ben's racism is getting out of hand. I think it's time for another vacation.

[Colon™]

Also, It'd be nice to have a "I will NOT thank you for what you said" button.

[MikeH]

Ben's racism is getting out of hand. I think it's time for another vacation.

What's he said now?

[Ben Kenobi]

Ben's racism is getting out of hand. I think it's time for another vacation.

I said that if a black person isn't happy with where they are in life, that they should quit blaming white folks and look at themselves. Same thing Bill Cosby said, btw.

[kentonio]

I said that if a black person isn't happy with where they are in life, that they should quit blaming white folks and look at themselves. Same thing Bill Cosby said, btw.

Was that before or after your diatribe about black people being the cause of slavery and how they were saved by the white folks?

[Ben Kenobi]

Was that before or after your diatribe about black people being the cause of slavery and how they were saved by the white folks?

All I said was that while White people didn't start slavery, white people were the ones who ended it. Both statements are historically true. Last I checked, Wilberforce was a white dude. Slavery existed long before Europe became influential, and in many cases, Europeans were taken as slaves by black folks where the European military was not strong enough to drive them off. Examples abound... Facts are stubborn things, Kentonio.

[MikeH]

The way you use 'facts' to represent an argument can still be racist.

e.g. the following statement is a fact:

"Ben Kenobi has never apologised on Apolyton for being a racist"

However it is a fact with strong implications and I suspect you'd argue with the way the fact was phrased. You will note that in that phrase I haven't said you are a racist, I've just said you haven't apologised for being one.

I would say the 'facts' as you provided them in that post above are similarly leading in intent.