Making it Better: The future of WP
Back to the 1960s we go. You’re communist, if you disagree or get offended it just proves you’re communist.
Speaking of that. Is it ok to say all democrats are communist now?
Biden’s pretty racist so are all democrats racist? He also sexual raped women so are all democrats rapist now?
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<Thinks: With Fnord out of the way, my intellectual status might improve. Hmmm.

It's like if you lock your car door when a black person walks by, you may not even realize you aren't doing it to white people.
I got called a racist nazi and threatened physical harm for saying I won’t support rioting by the way which is done by mostly white upper class liberals.
Guess that’s ok on you site.
I've had racial assumptions about my heritage used here to try and lessen the value of what I have posted by a member who protays themself as being against racism.
I've been called a racist and a bigot becuase a person wanted to focus on how an action affected one specific race, and I pointed out that it affected all races, and that it might be better to focus on fighting the action, rather than the race of a subset of those affected, if you wanted the action stopped.
I've seen members here refer to all on the right of the political spectrum as Nazi's - in a thread started with a poll asking if it was OK to punch Nazis, with only 2 options: yes, and yes - and in which none of the active participants saw any issue with this belief.
I've seen a member state that anyone who disagreed with a conservative was intelligent, perceptive, and wise, with "justification" supplie dto indicate that no conservative could hold those virtues...
I've seen a member say that supporting Trump is no different than liking Hitler.
And this is a small sample of what has been permitted (either through leaving it when reported, or allowing a precedent through other posts that were ignored (even worse is when a moderator is a part of the thread and doesn't see the issue themself and act accordingly on it, instead needing it to be "reported" and then maybe acted on), leading to it becoming "normalized"). As a result, this has given rise to a large number of people wondering what the point of the site is if they will be attacked for holding a different view, and so leaving the site...Along with who-knows how many potential members who see that and decide they would rather avoid the place altogether and so not even sign up.
Isn’t wp and there by Alex Liable if someone from this site goes out and assaults and or kills someone and then says look wp gave me the idea and supports it?
Hatred isn’t allowed here unless it’s hatred towards anyone who doesn’t vote democrat.
Err go wp is a hate site.
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Some people can dish it out but they cannot dish it back in.
What you describe sounds like responding to a personal attack with another personal attack.
Is it a personal attack or a strong disagreement

I'm waiting for League_Girl to judge.
I don't care if it's a personal attack. If someone decides to insult me, they shouldn't be surprised what I say to them next. I see it as self defense.
But then you get warned or banned. How’s that for fair?
Report the attack to the mod so they can get warned as well.

Well the mod supports and agrees with the attack on you. So they ban you.
Mean let’s say a mod is a kkk member. And a kkk member insults you and you insult them back. Who do you think the mod would side with? Welcome to wp if yiur democrat. If yiur conservative welcome to hell planet.
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Maybe you don’t, but I’ve seen the other mods do it. He’ll ive seem them mod supposed attacks directed at them. If a judge ruled over a case involving them they’d be disbarred.
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Words that sound the same but are spelled differently are called homophones. (Homo = Same, Phone = Sound).
I would never say I'm dumping my child anywhere. To me that sounds like a word for garbage, or something that isn't wanted. I would say I'm "dropping her off" at the place. It must be a cultural thing, like you said. That's too bad the lady got upset because I'm sure it wasn't your intention.
One of my pet peeves is when people say "my kid" instead of "my child" or "my son / daughter". It just sounds very harsh to me. "Kids" is OK when it's plural, but somehow "kid" makes my skin crawl. If someone said they were going to dump their kid somewhere, I'd be flummoxed. I guess to an extent we all have our differences. I'm totally fine with the *c* word and with swearing, but some others find that offensive.
I also learned using female for a woman is incel and apparently women don't refer to themselves as female or their daughters as female but guys.
So I guess I am a guy pretending to be a woman and no wonder people get my gender wrong.

What rubbish.
I will use "female" and "male" if I choose. It was part of my generation before there was an "incel" label.
It doesn't make me an incel.
PC nonsense.

Incels will often go further and say things like “femoid”. They have their own crazy language.
Do we have to explain this to people now?
So much for the educations system. EEP!

Also is it just me or did Alex change the layout of this forum, I hate how the posts look now. It was down just earlier and I couldn't access this forum.
Not just you , things are changing

I thought my computer had a virus.
I was thinking about reinstalling.
Thanks for the head's up.

You can't insult people but you can call them out for being something. Like you can say "you're being mean" but you can't say "you're an a**hole" or you're an idiot.
It should be pretty clear. If the word derogatory is in the definition of the word, it's not allowed.
It really isn't complicated and it has nothing to do with being on the left or right.
Another example: you can call someone a criminal but you can't call them a thug...
call someone a sex worker, can't call them a whore.
you all are making it seem like the rules are not fair but they apply equally.
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It should be pretty clear. If the word derogatory is in the definition of the word, it's not allowed.
It really isn't complicated and it has nothing to do with being on the left or right.
Another example: you can call someone a criminal but you can't call them a thug...
call someone a sex worker, can't call them a whore.
you all are making it seem like the rules are not fair but they apply equally.
So as long as it doesn't expressly include "derogatory" (or some variation thereof) in the definition, even if society at large interprets it in that way, it is allowed

Interesting...And exceedingly disappointing.
I think the rules are fair. I've been endorsing the rules all along, and hoping that people will understand personal attacks and personal accountability.
I'm still confused how "White Supremacist" isn't derogatory, assuming that the person isn't one.
I would find it derogatory to be labelled by words that associate me with that ideology, just like it would be derogatory to call someone a sex worker OR a whore, if they weren't one.
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An “idiotic idea” can be said to be a metaphor.
“Idiot” has very little to do with IQ these days. It has come to mean “absurdly dumb” in general.
Of course. I'm just explaining that it's still hurtful to call someone's idea "idiotic".
There are far nicer ways to say you disagree with an idea, so it won't sound insulting to their intelligence.
It's like when people are called "ignorant" on here. It surely implies they aren't smart, even though that's not the literal
meaning. People pull out their dictionaries to defend calling others ignorant.
Is it permissible to point out how idiotic it is to clog up so many pages with this
"idiotic" discussion about the word "idiot".
Not terribly original, but it will have to do.
I'm worn out reading all the drivel.

Hopefully, it is coming to an end soon.

I'm still confused how "White Supremacist" isn't derogatory, assuming that the person isn't one.
I would find it derogatory to be labelled by words that associate me with that ideology, just like it would be derogatory to call someone a sex worker OR a whore, if they weren't one.
if someone is spreading lies about someone that's a different thing. it doesn't fall under the personal attacks rule, it falls under whatever rule there is about not spreading lies about other people
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