This pretty much sums up my thoughts on how I treat the matter, as I've seen several instances where a certain person is called "Racism enabling." I know that this place is somewhat synonymous to a club where you follow whatever rules are made up in order to stay in it, but I find that when comments are posted on the subject they try to blend in what constitutes racism with arbitrary social rules and any questioning of them will be likened to promoting racism much as any questioning of the movie "Cyberbu//y" makes you a supporter of cyber-bullying in the eyes of the masses. I guess everytime someone calls me a faggot for being a literal fag their words should actually mean something? Everytime someone calls me fatass I should take offense? They are calling me words which have definitions which can easily be applied to me and therefor making it a simple statement of facts. I don't care if someone stands up and sings the Faggot Song in class, they are not insulting anything that actually matter; I would be a thousand times more offended if they honestly called me a poo brain.
Oh, but I am not of African descent, so I would not know the true excruciating pain that the verbal pronunciation or written text of a word such as "Nigger" would inflict upon a person, regardless of the context. I guess I just can't argue with that.
Or maybe it's because I do have Ass Burgers that I have this complete lack of empathy towards the people able to be offended in such, as I see it, a very black and white manner.
I am not saying we should do away completely with everything concerning this, I just had to explain why I am a racism-loving and bigoted asshole.
o hai dere. Uh, I hope i don't sound awkward and all /r/srs in this reply because I don't intend for that to be my tone.
First point: we need to determine what one would call "Racism enabling" and what it means. I wish I had something solid to point to, but i don't. Instead I would put forward that racist speech is speech which uses race as a determinate of worth. Saying a person enables racism would be akin to saying that this person promotes the idea that race is a determinate of worth.
So, back out to this forum. More importantly to the whole of the united states. There are regions where Nigga has completely decoupled itself from racial underpinnings due to how commonly it is used. There are other areas where nigga is just as racist as the term nigger which is just as racist as spic or cracker.
In this forum I think it's important to keep note of the fact that we all come from all over. While nigga may have no negative connotations to you, or to someone from not the US where we have racism crawling all over us, there are people that could, and would come here or in the servers and use terms they wouldn't deem sufficiently racist as insults. Or tehre might be people that say racist things all day everyday in thier small town and they never think about it. I... rawr. I'm not expressing myself clearly enough.
Let's try again. Um. So, like, words still have history right? Like, the word nigger and nigga has history. The history is very very unfortunate. There are still some people that still mean to use nigger or nigga in the worst way imaginable. Like, they actually hate people based on skin color for what ever reason. I would argue that having a zero tolerance policy for all racist things allows for a reality check of sorts for these individuals. There are people that I play with in Turbine that have been INCREDIBLY PURPOSEFULLY RACIST LIKE WOAH and their argument is that no one irl cares about how racist they act.
Ugh, I'm still not being very clear or precise. I just. ugh. I dislike it when other people are made to feel bad okay? Like, what if there was a little black kid that hadn't ever really been exposed to serious business racism, and they run into someone calling them a dumb bitch nigga. does the -a make it okay? No. Hell, I would like it if people would stop using the word fag as a casual insult because there MUST be kids that feel bad about themselves because of it. i dunno. I kind of feel like if everyone knew that nigga wasn't racist than it wouldn't be racist, but I know I've heard it used in derogatory ways before. :(
I dunno. I worry about people's feelings. I'm also tired. Please yell at me in a not too formal way if you respond tonight because I really wouldn't be able to parse anything too long winded right now -.-;;
And, well, the last point I'd like to make is that Skial is a private place. This entity has no restrictions against putting restrictions in place. I think the only thing private entities like this can't do is promote hate speech or incite acts of violence right?
(be gentle, I just wanted to have a civil conversation...)
