Racism is tolerated

Anyone knowing our culture would in fact

Did you just call me emotionally weak and hypersensitive? LOL! WTF? I didn't even post in this thread! All I said in the other one was that I didn't know what my last name meant when I chose it and I would not have chosen it if I had known. It irritates me, but I'm not weeping about it. Everything after that was just goofiness and messing around making jokes. Maybe I misread your post. If so, I apologize.

read it in context... it was meant sarcastic

And yep, I know fascism, it's the sole reason i started this thread. But as I read the answers, it seems people forget that millions have fought and died to stop fascism.
Freedom of speech is more important then killing fascism at it roots, seems the general opinion. .... Its sad.

Actually, freedom of speech is one of the best protections against Fascism.

Whoops! Yeah, bad segue on my part: just comparing this situation, where a positive term (in philosophy) is mistaken for awful PC-speak, to your thread, where you thought a strongly negative word meant something else entirely. I fast added the second bit to respond to his subsequent post.

You see? Everytime you try to leave they pull you back in. It's your curse.

Gotcha. No prob, then.

I guess I should try to stay on topic - I really don't care what one a-hole says. The guy that's being discussed here is a dick, but there are millions and millions of Americans, and most of them are pretty nice people, so it's unfair to judge a nation based on guys like this who are not in the majority. Should he be allowed to say what he wants? I guess, but that doesn't mean I have to respect him or give what he says any credibility. I don't see any legitimate political argument there, just an attempt to be hurtful and act like an ass. Hell with him. There's too many good people in Sl to waste time on guys like that.

That's what you get for reading more than the first couple of paragraphs.

I'd like to know if I would make you my target of slander, make racist remarks, tell dirty stuff about your mother, how incredible unintelligent you are and what not, if you still think it was much entertaining. And i'm very sure i could find something to rile you up.

But the thing is, if you take pleasure in such things, what are you then?

I think a lot of things are funny, but a racist prick is far from funny imo.

Saii, you never did answer my question. So I will rephrase it. Why stop with fascism? Collectivism of all stripes is murderous. Surely you want to stamp out all forms of collectivism? Or are you not concerned with the millions murdered by the Communists in the last century?

Really its totalitarianism thats the problem rather than ideology,

Any ideology is capable of brutal excesses if those that hold power are left unchecked.

Freedom of speech and guaranteed political enfranchisement is the key, not whether someone believes in Capitalism or not.

Here here!

/me mutters - "the're all foreigners - the whole lot of 'em".

By reacting as a victim you keep the game going.

Love the ignorant they are signposts clearly showing what you wish not to become , encourage them to to be as outfront as possible (eliminates the need to find out the hard way, lol )

Mute the guy, if you can't or have no wish for the verbage. Lindens provided a palette, if they now are thought police we toons might have to start visiting "ACME" and get our boxing glove guns loaded .

/me waits for the humour lapsers to find this one Deira!

Not necessarily a racist but most certainly a narrow-minded bigot. Which is what the person the OP alludes to [this RR character whoever he is] most certainly is. And most likely a wind-up artist into the bargain. Yes, such people may seem funny, etc., for a short while. They love to dish it out but just can't take it when the same mentality is directed at them. Pathetic creatures really.

Being anti-American is not racism. Citizens of the US of A represent every race on Earth.

I wish people would not confuse racism with being against a particular country.

Racism is not even close to hating Americans or the Dutch or whoever.

The last time I heard Americans and the Dutch are not a race nor are the Australians.

Think the guy described is pro-American, Anti "Foreigner"

Though why someone would be against Foreigner I don't know,

Maybe they just didn't like 70's music.

Whatever.

I need to learn to read posts before sounding off.

How could someone not like 1970's music? That one is way beyond me.

9 in 10 Mother's Basement dwellers do not like 70's music.

Yea, I noticed.

Lets hear it for ABBA!!! WOOOOT!!!

/me starts singing Dancing Queen

Abba was a good pop group from the 1970's but I was referring to the 1965 to early 1970s rock groups such as Jimi, Janis, Country Joe, CSN, blah blah.

That's probably mentoring 101 what you learn in your first day at the infohub:

1. Mute
2. Teach others how to mute

If noone listens, who cares what he says?

3. If you witness an attack on a person, be it with words or actions, file an AR. Teach others to file an AR. The more ARs are being filed, the faster it will be dealt with.

Finally:

4. Never EVER! be tempted to get into an argument about RL politics or religion or anything sensitive like that. SL is not the place for that. Go to the usenet or some readers' comments site of a newspaper.

Sadly starting an argument about YOUR political views is exactly what you did now by posting here, @OP, which means you satisfied this person's wish to provoke a reaction from you, and that was the biggest mistake of them all.

Fascism is at it's heart the desire to destroy the hated Other. It comes in all colors, creeds and nationalities.

But that's beside the point for me.

For me, the point is this, from the Terms of Service: "In addition to abiding at all times by the Community Standards, you agree that you shall not: ... (iv) take any action or upload, post, e-mail or otherwise transmit Content as determined by Linden Lab at its sole discretion that is harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, causes tort, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;"

A person chose to exercise his right to free speech. The person he spoke to found this speech offensive under the Terms of Service. The OP elected to AR the speaker.

How is it wrong to object to the objectionable? The people who log into Second Life are human beings. They are just as human here as they are anywhere else. They have the RIGHT to be offended. They have the right to object to the objectionable.

It doesn't matter if you think they shouldn't be offended. It doesn't matter if their decision to use the system LL put in place goes against your personal Politics of Fun. Two different people exercised their rights, freely. We like freedom, don't we?

Some might say that objecting to the rude speech the OP complained about is being judgmental. What's wrong with that? Paramecia have to exercise judgment, and we've got a lot more cells.

No one interfered with the offender's speech. They just asked that he face the consequences of his actions. It's like the Russian proverb:

"God says, take what you want. And pay for it."

Personally I just said his remarks were xenophobic as opposed to racist on the basis of the sample posted <shrugs>. Your argument above, and that of some others, is germane. However, mainly, 503 prevented me from replying earlier to the OP who has had to retreat to some ill grammared backpeddling on subject.

News for you folks. There are bigoted, miserable, dim witted and inversely proportionately loud mouthed people in SL. And everywhere else. Not sure I'd want Travis Bickle to be the rain bringer but the rain I'd have fall would wash them away, and I am sure if they were to return the compliment (which they couldn't, bless their ignorant little socks) I am pretty sure there's some rain of theirs heading my way.

Bandying "Fascist" about is asking for trouble. I claim my hundredth Hitler post. Here are some cats.

*cats missing due to 503