Making it Better: The future of WP

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Isn't it mandatory, on an aspie website?

A sex worker is someone who makes money off their body or anything sexual including fetish. You don't need to be a prostitute or go to a strip club to be one. If you do live cams and do sexual things and get paid for it, you are a sex worker.

Nothing wrong with that.

I still don't understand why applying any label to another person (or group) in a discussion is permitted...In theory people should be addressing what was posted, and responding to the message, not directing a responce\attack at the person who posted it because they disagree with the message but cannot refute it.

Thank you for clarifying. That's been a huge issue here, and I've been trying to have it addressed.
I have seen "lies" as a defamation of character, which is like personal attacks or personal insults.
I don't see the word "lies" in the rules, but I'm glad lies aren't allowed.
I will continue to report those problems.

I'm aware of what a sex worker is. If the person isn't one, they aren't one.

If you don't like raunch, don't read the spoiler.
If you read it and get offended,
You are an "Idiot".


Hmmm, the "Spoiler" doesn't work for me, any longer.
If you want to read what is in there, you will have to quote it.

I wouldn't bother.
It isn't worth the effort.

Edit: The spoiler is working again.
Those pesky admin gremlins at work, I'm sure of that.

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i'll have to fix that. in trying to speed things up, i removed some things that may be more necessary than i thought

Alex: Because you haven't been here in a while, you might not be aware of how things degenerated lately. Most of us are here because we're autistic and many of us aren't even American. I block everything about American politics right now and don't set foot in the PPR.

Yet, these feuds and petty grudges created on political grounds have been spilling all over the forum, including the Haven and the rest of us can't use it for its intended purpose without every other thread being derailed into endless, repetitive and violent arguments and downright harassment (some people were indeed threatened with physical violence). It's enough to disagree with someone on non-political issues to be called a snowflake, a Nazi or even a racist.

There has also been a serious problem with the way very young people and those lower functioning are being treated, which included various forms of invalidation, insults and being told to their faces that their opinions and experiences don't matter due to their age or level of impairment.

So a lot of people left or found a home on other Autistic fora. And it's usually the polite, articulate ones who contributed greatly to keeping this place together.

Don't you think these are serious issues? Do you want non-Americans and those who refuse to participate in this circus and use this place for its intended purpose to just leave?

Well i think we should do whatever we can to stop that from happening to be honest.

Thank you, this has been the purpose of this thread from the start and some people here really made an effort to mend the fences and find solutions.

Unless they vote or like trump or any other republican right. Then it’s not lies.

I think the term Nazi should be added to the derogatory list. Sure some people have expressed white nationalist sympathies consciously or not, but no one here is spouting off Nazi rhetoric. The term has very specific historic context that no one here supports. Obviously is an actual Nazi shows up in their full infamy than yeah.



Agreed. The mean age of WP users seems to have gone up since I took a break back in 2017.

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Not only ignored,
It is tolerated.

To some on this site, expressing the opinion that all people should be treated equally is interpreted as "white supremecy", with accusations of "racism" and "white supremecy" against the person who posted that "radical" thought.

I wish your opinion was the reality but the fact of the matter is that casual racism (soft white supremacism if you prefer) is common and woven into the fabric of western society. I wouldn't want someone warned for posting that they don't think indigenous Americans or black people haven't contributed to building our society because it's likely what they were taught in school but I find it appalling for someone referring to that attitude as racist to receive any punishment whatsoever because all they've done is called that attitude what it is.

Since this community exists to support a community where eccentric ideas are more common than average I wouldn't want posters banned for expressing ideas that are outside of the mainstream, even if they're moderately offensive. That said, we should still be entitled to express objective truths even if they are inconvenient or have the potential to ruffle feathers. Having one's opinion labelled as racist by another poster for expressing a racist view shouldn't ever warrant a warning, since when was speaking the truth punishable? Since when was this community opposed to the truth being spoken? Especially in PPR where a lot of leeway is (and should be) given to all sides.

If the official stance is that racism isn't tolerated than we need to work to ensure that's actually the truth. We can't claim we don't if we actually do. (For that matter, considering how common and widespread casual racism is, perhaps we should take a moment to reflect that we might need to be officially tolerant of it to a degree so that we don't end up like my high school's anti-bullying position which was officially to not tolerate it but to basically refuse to record or acknowledge it so that officially it didn't happen even on days where someone left in an ambulance. Being officially tolerant of it doesn't mean as a community tolerating it, it just means that posters don't receive official sanction, they just have to deal with having other posters criticize their views.)

People who espouse 'soft white supremacist' views often like to insist that only card-carrying Nazis count, but that's dishonestly redefining the term so that they don't have to reflect on the positions they openly espouse. Kowtowing to political correctness because some posters might have their feelings hurt doesn't seem reasonable, especially when racism is an issue that directly impacts this community. PoC are less likely to be diagnosed, less likely to receive support and less likely to have pursuing help covered by insurance. How can we be genuinely welcoming when there's a handful of posters who peddle in racist stereotypes on a daily basis?

Yes, that fixation on posting a nasty news story involving black offenders that a few posters have is what I'm talking about; especially when they use those stories to reinforce their stereotypes that allow them to conclude any issues those communities face are entirely their own fault and not at all connected to ongoing systemic discrimination.

No, that stuff doesn't warrant a warning, but it does warrant allowing posters to call it what it is.