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[Angrboda]

I'd like to request that the serious tag be removed from this thread. There doesn't appear to be a legitimate need for a thread discussing news items of random focus and seriousness to be protected or administered differently from an unmoderated thread. Particularly if people are going to use it for posting what are essentially personal attacks and ad hominems based upon straw men when challenged with an alternative interpretation of events. Failing that, IA may deserve a thread ban for the thinly veiled personal attacks even after having been reminded of the serious tag.

[Irreligious Atheist]

I'd like to request that the serious tag be removed from this thread.  There doesn't appear to be a legitimate need for a thread discussing news items of random focus and seriousness to be protected or administered differently from an unmoderated thread.  Particularly if people are going to use it for posting what are essentially personal attacks and ad hominems based upon straw men when challenged with an alternative interpretation of events.  Failing that, IA may deserve a thread ban for the thinly veiled personal attacks even after having been reminded of the serious tag.

What personal attacks? Children were assaulted on camera, and Tomato is asking what they did to deserve it, without any reason to believe they did anything at all based on the information we have. How is that any different from blaming a woman for her own rape? Even Boru didn't dare go that far and blame the kids for what happened to them. He just questioned parts of the story, which actually looks pretty tame now compared to what Tomato posted. And it's hilarious that you are now doing exactly what the woke students the black professor talked about engaged in (from the Destiny link I shared on the previous page). You and those students are one in the same. You hear one opinion that offends you and you starting calling for an authoritarian lockdown of speech and asking for your safe space while you give no shits about little children who were horrified as they ran away, got dragged and assaulted. Some priorities you have there.

Also, why would you immediately jump to the thought of a thread ban? I know why. It's because you want to silence me from posting stories that make your pet movements look bad. Period. If that wasn't the case, why not instead suggest that I get a warning, and be told not to make comparisons to blaming rape victims anymore? If that's what the mods want from me, I'd be happy to oblige and stop making that comparison if I must, because that's not a hill that I need to die on, but that's not good enough for you, is it? You want me banished, so news stories from only one perspective will be talked about from now on.

[Rev. Rye]

[Irreligious Atheist]

[The Grand Nudger]

I think that if our main concern is to avoid being a reincarnation of hitler, the white bar has been set awfully low. In general, though, I think you're on to something. When white supremacists start complaining about white genocide people do tend to tell them to go pound sand.

[Rev. Rye]

Yes, I understand that sometimes, activists can get their heads completely up their own asses, like the ones in Vincent Lloyd's seminar. I don't question that the sort of black-focused-to-the-exclusion-of-everything-else he described is real and, if tried in the real world, will only alienate people. Christ, just read Huggy Bear's posts on the subject for an example of that. Thing is, in my research, the closest thing to the event you described that I've seen them do is maybe dogpiling on Twitter. Or shit like this:



What I don't see is them actively bullying people IRL into supporting BLM. If the narrative that Ngo and the Examiner are pushing is actually true, then this sort of inexcusable act is still outnumbered by all the many cases of right-wing media sources (like them) overblowing some story and pushing the sort of narrative that, if it's not black people who are inherently violent, then it's BLM that's bad. And, in many of those cases, it turns out they're leaving out crucial information. There's only so many times such sources can talk about shit like that and leave out crucial information before we start reflexively asking for more information or suspecting that the "victim" might have actually provoked his attackers.

[Angrboda]

[Rev. Rye]

[Angrboda]

[Kitan Etos]