Making it Better: The future of WP

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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.

Report the attack to the mod so they can get warned as well.

We don't moderate threads we have participated in (the mod attention thread being an exception because we've all been there, and it's not political or similarly hot topic).

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.

I think there’s a stronger tendency among incels to use “female” or particularly “females” as a noun than there is in the generally population, and a corresponding aversion to using “women”, but occasionally using female as an adjective (or even as a noun) isn’t necessarily “proof” that one is an incel or inclined to that way of thinking.

Incels will often go further and say things like “femoid”. They have their own crazy language.

Not just you , things are changing

“People” cannot be misconstrued as a single person.

“Those people” is often said when one wants to make an ethnically/racially insensitive statement, though.

"You" people make me frustrated with your semantics .

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 as*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.

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.

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.