Ludwig von Stieglitz
Banned
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The specific kind of racism that BlairWitch was banned for, basically a "black people are poor because black culture sucks" argument has been heard very often from prominent conservative figures and politicians, and very seldom from liberals. It's a highly partisan opinion. Calling it conservative is simply accurate.
I understand that American conservatives don't like people associating their movement with racism, but the reason people say that is because their movement is in fact packed with racists and racist opinions, and everyone can see that those people are tolerated by (and voted for by) other conservatives.
That was the literal truth. Many unskilled and low-skilled jobs use as many pictures as possible in their instructions, because the employees may not have great reading skills (or great English language reading skills). I was told by someone who worked in the auto industry that they found that functional literacy among the workforce in the American South was considerably less than that in central Canada (not exactly shocking), and that the way to deal with this did include more pictorial instructions.
Most of those poorly educated southern auto workers probably were black. Low literacy skills are the result of poverty and poor education.
I am sorry to just see this now, three years into all of this...but I was reading Blairwitch's very good timeline, wich was suddenly interrupted because you basically considered him a racist. Now, while I find the content of his comments...arguable, and probably not very informed, either, or probably not very clever indeed. Still, I have not seen him speak about black people in any place, nor he explicitely derogated them, as far as it looks to me; it was you who decided he was yelling at black people; you unilaterally accused him of being "conservative" and "elitist"; I don't know, but frankly I wonder who are you to judge. Earth to ground, you kicked him because you did not like what he said...wow...very cool.
"The specific kind of racism that BlairWitch was banned for, basically a "black people are poor because black culture sucks" argument has been heard very often from prominent conservative figures and politicians, and very seldom from liberals. It's a highly partisan opinion. Calling it conservative is simply accurate." you wrote
So he would be a conservative (and you make it look like, se ipso, a bad thing); not that you gave him a chance to reply, by the way... but with all respect, you remind me of the stereotypical liberal guy, using prefabricated indignation, passive-aggressive behaviour and censorship, as weapons of mass-tacitation; a cure no better than the evil it should solve.
So what...liberals are inherently better than conservatives, and if you do not align to mainstream liberal values, you are banned? Are you saying that all conservative people are stupid and backwards? Does that not sound as a partisan opinion to you, Ian? I think illegal immigration is a problem...should I be banned now, basically because it might be that such a statement does not reflect your vision of what is "racist"? Pardon me, but this pretty much looks like censorship.
I like this site, but now...I am honestly disappointed.
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