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Not two, not one, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 1:33 AM
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Moderator Request

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Hi Chris, I have made a request for moderator action on T's practice log thread.

Cheers

Malcolm
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Not two, not one, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 2:01 AM
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Just bumping this, also to request that no further posts on this subject be made on T's practice log. 

Nicky, you can spew your vile propaganda here instead, if you wish, pending a moderator decision.
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Nicky, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 2:15 AM
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So this video offends you?  https://youtu.be/C0CulhsQkTA  Are you unable to tolerate this video due to self-cherishing? Is the mind reacting like the girl in the video, who cannot tolerate the opinion of a man? 

Is your capacity for tolerance like in this video: https://youtu.be/wDYNVH0U3cs

Are these haters of Pro-Zionist Donald Trump antisemitic? https://youtu.be/_loHlC87DgE

Or are they just lost in self-cherishing? emoticon
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 2:18 AM
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Curious, I love you. 
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Nicky, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 2:33 AM
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Lust & cronyism towards Curious does not change the intolerance and denial of alien doctrines to Dhamma. emoticon

Curious appears unable to tolerate certain historical facts or, otherwise, views of history. 
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Nicky:
Lust & cronyism towards Curious does not change the intolerance and denial of alien doctrines to Dhamma. emoticon

Wow, keep digging Nicky. 
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Nicky, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 2:45 AM
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Don't keep engaging in false speech & hypocrisy Malcolm. emoticon
Tim Farrington, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 3:22 AM
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curious:
Hi Chris, I have made a request for moderator action on T's practice log thread.

Cheers

Malcolm


What is moderator action, and how, specifically, is it requested? Is there a key word, like a safe word, that the moderator can use to locate the point specifically, by a search engine? Does the moderator generally have to wade through all this shit all the time, like a police car on routine patrol, or is a moderator request the radio-call type thing that makes him roll up his sleeves, take a deep sigh at karma being a bitch and dharma being a pain in the ass, drive to the requested location of the incident, and THEN wade through all the shit. Is it a single post request, a general tone, a black list?

I'm just asking for a friend.

love, tim
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Nicky, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 3:28 AM
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Moderator action is engaging in a public tirade; like in this video emoticon https://youtu.be/F-mju_gW3c8
Tim Farrington, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 3:55 AM
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Nicky:
Moderator action is engaging in a public tirade; like in this video emoticon https://youtu.be/F-mju_gW3c8

Okay, first of all, that is fucking great, and if i had any money, i would order the book. I feel capable of improving my capacity to be offended, and am inspired by this video to really move on toward becoming a fully really offendee.

But i'm still not clear what a moderator action is 1) triggered by, 2) does to address the call for action.  i mean, if public tirades alone are the trigger . . . But this request for moderator action is something specific, and by the book, so what i'm really asking about is what section of which book to consult on this particular protocol loop.

For my friend, I mean.

(edit, p.s.) i'm a bit slow, and mis-read this thread badly from the start. I thought this was about you guys tangling on Advaita and Buddhism. I had noticed the ugly exchange as i went through T's log this morning, but didn't specifically registering that it was the two of you going at it, just that it was a shame now  that T had to wade all that shit to see if someone had an insight into the fact that he was calmly noted sensations in his high chest and throat that had him wondering if he needed actual medical attention or what.

So fight it out here, Nicky. I would be offended if you didn't.
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 3:46 AM
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There is a function that allows you to flag a post. Then you can choose your reason for flagging it, such as hateful content. You can find it down in the left corner of each post. It doesn't always work, though, or maybe that's just a glitch in my touchpad or something. Anyway, it is a tiny flag symbol and the text "flag".
Tim Farrington, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 3:46 AM
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curious:
Hi Chris, I have made a request for moderator action on T's practice log thread.

Cheers

Malcolm

Oh, oh, on T's log. I misread-too-fast and assumed this was an "Advaita and Buddhism" thing. I didn't even notice who was going at it on T's log when i went through this morning, i just skipped all that shit and replied to his post. That was you and Nicky! Got it! Yeah, fight it out here, guys, really.
Tim Farrington, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 3:50 AM
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
There is a function that allows you to flag a post. Then you can choose your reason for flagging it, such as hateful content. You can find it down in the left corner of each post. It doesn't always work, though, or maybe that's just a glitch in my touchpad or something. Anyway, it is a tiny flag symbol and the text "flag".

Also, I just realized that this is about an exchange on T's log, not Advaita and Buddhism. I hadn't realized that was Malcolm and Nicky going at it there this morning. So I'm glad curious took this step, actually. This seems a proper gutter for the fight.

Does the flag function go to the top of the moderator's in-box somehow? Is malcolm's request-underscoring thread here actually more to offer a more appropriate alternative arena? If so, skillful means, i say. Have at it, gentlemen.
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Nicky, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 3:52 AM
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I try to maintain a sense of humour; even when the Thought Police (Malcolm) turn up in their Brown Shirts. Thank you for your humoruous post. emoticon
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:01 AM
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That's how I understood it. That and making a public stance against antisemitic propaganda in order to make this a safer place. And taking on the fight to spare those who might be vulnerable to the damage. Hence the expression of love. Very skillful means indeed. 

edited to add: AND managing to do this without losing compassion. That's a tough balance. That's the balance I was trying to deal with in my long-term tour of the dukkha nanas before getting on board with the daily practice. 
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Thanks Tim.  Respecting T is definitely a big part of it.  But actually, I don't really want to argue with Nicky about this at all (although it can be hard to resist emoticon).  Rather, I just want Nicky to commit to stopping spewing the hateful anti-semitic propaganga under the guise of 'innocent facts'.  Or to be banned.  I would prefer the former alternative, as I think Nicky has an huge amount to offer.  And I'm sure we could have some great good natured arguments about other matters.

But we know from history what happens if you tolerate the dog-whistling deniable hateful bullshit.  Eventually you lose everything.  Maybe even the dharma.

Also, it is actually hurting people here and now, on this forum.

EDIT:  And here is the latest example from Lars practice log:  Quoting Nicky:  "The Jewish religion, for example, teaches "God" or "Yahweh" is the 1st cause. The Buddha taught "ignorance" is the 1st cause. Therefore, most people are blinded by ignorance and can do hurtful actions. "
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Nicky, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:06 AM
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Malcolm should stop engaging in false speech and acting like Gestapo Throught Police. 

Malcolm engages in Cesnorship of public material facts of history, such as Wikipedia. 

Malcolm appears seriously deluded and anti-Buddhist. emoticon

Nicky has no interest in the cravings of fools. The Buddha said: 

The fool seeks undeserved reputation, precedence among monks, authority over monasteries, and honor among householders.

Let both laymen and monks think that it was done by me. In every work, great and small, let them follow me" — such is the ambition of the fool; thus his desire and pride increase.

Dhammapada

Mike Smirnoff, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:05 AM
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Hi Malcolm,

Hateful speech is deplorable, absolutely. But constant political correctness gets us nowhere either.

Let me be clear: I'm on neither your side or on Nicky's side in this state of affairs. I'm just putting in a little thing I've learned, for what that's worth. I guess moderator will take whatever action needs to be taken.

Mike.
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Nicky:
I try to maintain a sense of humour; even when the Thought Police (Malcolm) turn up in their Brown Shirts. Thank you for your humoruous post. emoticon
Actually, I am wearing a brown shirt today!  With vertical stripes.  emoticon Love is still there Nicky.  I know it is tough when you get caught up in these cycles of dependent origination.  But, actually, we all have been there.  There is no shame to it.
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RE: Moderator Request

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Nicky:
Malcolm should stop engaging in false speech and acting like Gestapo Throught Police. 

Malcolm engages in Cesnorship of public material facts of history, such as Wikipedia. 

Malcolm appears seriously deluded and anti-Buddhist. emoticon

Metta to you Nicky.
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:06 AM
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Spotting and calling out manipulative dog-whistling isn't political correctness. It is human decency and courage and integrity and wisdom. 
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Nicky, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:15 AM
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Best to abandon the hypocricy & virtue signalling Malcolm. 

The PREJUDICE is here to be seen. 

Metta is not the Jewish/Christian metta, where God won't punish you if you love him. 

Metta in Buddhism is BOUNDLESS emoticon


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Nicky, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:08 AM
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History is history. Only censorship can change it. 
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Nicky:
Best to abandon the hypocricy & virtue signalling Malcolm. 

The PREJUDICE is here to be seen. 


Metta to you Nicky.  This too shall pass.
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Nicky:
History is history. Only censorship can change it. 
History is our choice about how to construct stories of the past Nicky.  Metta to you.
Mike Smirnoff, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:10 AM
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As I said, I was just putting in something I have learned. Rest is for the moderator(s) to decide:  what's the intent behind the two involved parties words, and whether intentions matter or the outcome ...
Tim Farrington, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:11 AM
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I don't know the history here. I didn't register anti-semitism on my admittedly quick first pass through T's log, i was just skimming to see if anyone had said anything i considered constructive and helpful, so i wouldn't repeat in my reply to T. I do recall think it was sort of cool if T was Jewish, because my impression was that T is a "Tim," and the thought of a Jewish Timothy warmed my Catholic (a.k.a. sectarian Jewish) heart.

I take it pretty seriously that Malcolm is so riled up so fast. I know him well enough at this point to pay attention if he thinks something is important. I don't know you much at all, but it looks like the nama-rupa thread, which on my first pass through it struck me as way over my head technical and academic, might be my foot in the door.

The point is, this is the appropriate venue for this conversation at this point, and it should be rated NC-17 or whatever the DhO equivalent of x-rated is, to minimize toxic leakage and collateral damage to innocent bystanders mistaking it for a collegial discussion. This is the gutter appropriate to a gutter fight that seems to have some historical momentum and ripeness. I am interested myself. I only have one brown shirt, and it says "Tranter's Creek Campground, Washington, North Carolina" on it. If I am hanging out with Gestapo types here, as you suggest, it's just a matter of moments before i'll be off to the camps myself, so i have a dog in this hunt and skin in this game.
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:12 AM
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Nicky:
History is history. Only censorship can change it. 


That's a very strange argument from someone who believes in the dharma. Did you just reify not only history, but also a specific view of it?
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Mike Smirnoff:
As I said, I was just putting in something I have learned. Rest is for the moderator(s) to decide:  what's the intent behind the two involved parties words, and whether intentions matter or the outcome ...
Thank you Mike.  It's fraught territory isn't it?  Most of us are just trying to do our best.  May you be safe.  May you be well.  May you be filled with loving kindness.  May we all be filled with loving kindness.

Malcolm
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Nicky, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:14 AM
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Censorship of history will not help anyone but lead to more war & death. 

Try here: 
https://youtu.be/JDeCl3w2wo0

In Buddhism, it is called "cause & effect" or "Dependent Origination". 

Give up the metta charade Malcolm. 

Good bye. emoticon




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Nicky:
Censorship of history will not help anyone but lead to more war & death. 

Try here: 
https://youtu.be/JDeCl3w2wo0

In Buddhism, it is called "cause & effect" or "Dependent Origination". 

Give up the metta charade Malcolm. 

Good bye. emoticon



May you be safe.  May you be well.  May you be filled with loving kindness.  My deep best concerns for your welfare and progress Nicky.
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:16 AM
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That's how dog-whistling works. It goes over most people's heads, while scaring vulnerable people to silence and encouraging hatefulness among those who pick up on the subtle cues and find their hatred being normalized. Truly scary shit.
Mike Smirnoff, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:20 AM
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I'd agree with you Tim: I did not sense any direct anti-semitism either. But then, apparently there is some long history here, if Malcolm's words are to be believed. Further, I'm not Jewish, so I don't directly feel their sentiments either -- and I don't understand what might directly hurt them.


Let me give an example here, of what can be directly interpreted as racism when it is not: You guys know of the Trudeau blackface incident. And he was immediately branded as racist. He might well be. I have no idea -- and he apologized -- so let's assume that he did have racist intent (or who knows, he was just playing a political game). What I know is that some white person might blacken their face because they admire a black person too -- just to show admiration and appreciation. All I'm saying is, we should not judge without looking carefully.


All this said -- I don't know any of the history here -- all I'm doing in is putting in some words which I think might mean some thing here ... 
Tim Farrington, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:18 AM
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Nicky:
I try to maintain a sense of humour; even when the Thought Police (Malcolm) turn up in their Brown Shirts. Thank you for your humoruous post. emoticon

Nicky, i'm as capable of burning hot as anyone i've seen on DhO yet. I was drawn to this post in the first place because i sort of thought the moderator request was probably on recent posts of my own, of astounding and vituperative bile.

An actual touch of real humor, and a pace of conversation we can sustain, really would go far here. This shit is burning hot as fuck, it's like an underground fire in an old coal mine coming to the surface after years of burning underground. Let's go slow, and try to keep a uniform type-font-size, it seems Arial 16-point is the norm. Any other typographic emphasis is a raised voice, but let's set a baseline at this size and keep the indications of VOICE RAISING and emphatic assertiondistinct in the conversation, rather than just proceeding in an everescalatingdin.
Tim Farrington, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:21 AM
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
That's how dog-whistling works. It goes over most people's heads, while scaring vulnerable people to silence and encouraging hatefulness among those who pick up on the subtle cues and find their hatred being normalized. Truly scary shit.


Well, if that's what's going on here, let's fucking get it truly clear. This is a hand-picked crew of elite volunteers uniquely prepared to do a proper consideration of what constitutes dog-whistling, with analsis of specific examples drawn from history perhaps, and, uh spiritedcollegial  dialogue !!!!!!!
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 4:21 AM
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I agree that we should not turn to hateful judgement ourselves. That doesn't solve anything. Which is why I find curious's approach to this quite the work of art. 
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
That's how dog-whistling works. It goes over most people's heads, while scaring vulnerable people to silence and encouraging hatefulness among those who pick up on the subtle cues and find their hatred being normalized. Truly scary shit.

And that is why I got riled up to fast, to quote Tim. It was clearly very practiced, and spread over various different threads, with plausible deniability in each individual instance.  But add them all up .... extremely scary shit.

But we can all change. I can change. You can change. Nicky can change. The best outcome is to lead people to a better way of thinking about issues, including this one. The second best, squash it out before it spreads and infects others, or gets normalised or gets credibility. The lies on this anti-semitism subject are so practiced, you can't give it an inch.  Also, the consider typical bullshit of "oh just consider my sentence" instead of considering the agenda that I set, how I framed the topic, the things I chose to talk about, the words I chose to use.  This, Exactly This, is the putrid corruption of modern society.  But usually we don't notice becuase the lies are so carefully practiced.

Some things are worth standing up for.  (Edit: sorry if I lost my skilful means there!)

Malcolm
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Tim Farrington:
Nicky:
I try to maintain a sense of humour; even when the Thought Police (Malcolm) turn up in their Brown Shirts. Thank you for your humoruous post. emoticon

Nicky, i'm as capable of burning hot as anyone i've seen on DhO yet. I was drawn to this post in the first place because i sort of thought the moderator request was probably on recent posts of my own, of astounding and vituperative bile.

An actual touch of real humor, and a pace of conversation we can sustain, really would go far here. This shit is burning hot as fuck, it's like an underground fire in an old coal mine coming to the surface after years of burning underground. Let's go slow, and try to keep a uniform type-font-size, it seems Arial 16-point is the norm. Any other typographic emphasis is a raised voice, but let's set a baseline at this size and keep the indications of VOICE RAISING and emphatic assertiondistinct in the conversation, rather than just proceeding in an everescalatingdin.

Why Nicky, checked your references a little more deeply, you really are a funny, funny guy.

We don't need a conversation here, we need to flush you down a fucking toilet. You really should be banned from DhO, in my take on it. You are a putrid, patholical heil-hitlering piece of shit.:

Rabbi Yosef Tzvi ben Porat gives a very honest speech about the Jews. This speech is followed by a wonderful excerpt from Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf.
How The Jews Prompted A German Backlash http://www.realjewnews.com/?p=40

Hitler Didn't Want World War
Illuminati Created and Manipulated Hitler

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Tim Farrington:
Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
That's how dog-whistling works. It goes over most people's heads, while scaring vulnerable people to silence and encouraging hatefulness among those who pick up on the subtle cues and find their hatred being normalized. Truly scary shit.


Well, if that's what's going on here, let's fucking get it truly clear. This is a hand-picked crew of elite volunteers uniquely prepared to do a proper consideration of what constitutes dog-whistling, with analsis of specific examples drawn from history perhaps, and, uh spiritedcollegial  dialogue !!!!!!!




I can't do that. This is how I burn out. And actually, I have seen exactly that been used as a strategy by organized nazis, wearing out and breaking down people who care by pushing all their buttons repeatedly in the name of reason and dialogue. And bystanders could still not grasp what was going on.
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curious:
Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
That's how dog-whistling works. It goes over most people's heads, while scaring vulnerable people to silence and encouraging hatefulness among those who pick up on the subtle cues and find their hatred being normalized. Truly scary shit.

And that is why I got riled up to fast, to quote Tim. It was clearly very practiced, and spread over various different threads, with plausible deniability in each individual instance.  But add them all up .... extremely scary shit.

But we can all change. I can change. You can change. Nicky can change. The best outcome is to lead people to a better way of thinking about issues, including this one. The second best, squash it out before it spreads and infects others, or gets normalised or gets credibility. The lies on this anti-semitism subject are so practiced, you can't give it an inch.  Also, the consider typical bullshit of "oh just consider my sentence" instead of considering the agenda that I set, how I framed the topic, the things I chose to talk about, the words I chose to use.  This, Exactly This, is the putrid corruption of modern society.  But usually we don't notice becuase the lies are so carefully practiced.

Some things are worth standing up for.  (Edit: sorry if I lost my skilful means there!)

Malcolm

I see it too. It is happening.
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curious:
Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
That's how dog-whistling works. It goes over most people's heads, while scaring vulnerable people to silence and encouraging hatefulness among those who pick up on the subtle cues and find their hatred being normalized. Truly scary shit.

And that is why I got riled up to fast, to quote Tim. It was clearly very practiced, and spread over various different threads, with plausible deniability in each individual instance.  But add them all up .... extremely scary shit.

But we can all change. I can change. You can change. Nicky can change. The best outcome is to lead people to a better way of thinking about issues, including this one. The second best, squash it out before it spreads and infects others, or gets normalised or gets credibility. The lies on this anti-semitism subject are so practiced, you can't give it an inch.  Also, the consider typical bullshit of "oh just consider my sentence" instead of considering the agenda that I set, how I framed the topic, the things I chose to talk about, the words I chose to use.  This, Exactly This, is the putrid corruption of modern society.  But usually we don't notice becuase the lies are so carefully practiced.

Some things are worth standing up for.  (Edit: sorry if I lost my skilful means there!)

Malcolm

I couldn't agree with the two of you more. His references are impeccably anti-semitic, and that's just for starters. Kick that fucker's hitler-loving ass out of here. He said good-bye, i hope he meant it. Next time, Malcolm, i've got your back from the moment the fucker reveals himself. I might have to go to the nama-rupa thread to see what the fuck he was doing with THAT. I thought the nama-rupa thread was just boring. Now i suspect it may be and education in dog-whistling vocabulary and racist code words.
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Thank Tim.  It means a lot!  Together, we are stronger.

Edit:  But also, I haven't given up on Nicky.  None of us should.  Although that doesn't mean we have to listen to or tolerate certain comments.

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Exactly. That's the tough but oh so important balancing act. 

Edited to add: and we don't need to have a dialogue on terms that are harmful. It is perfectly okay to just say no. 
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
curious:
Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
That's how dog-whistling works. It goes over most people's heads, while scaring vulnerable people to silence and encouraging hatefulness among those who pick up on the subtle cues and find their hatred being normalized. Truly scary shit.

And that is why I got riled up to fast, to quote Tim. It was clearly very practiced, and spread over various different threads, with plausible deniability in each individual instance.  But add them all up .... extremely scary shit.

But we can all change. I can change. You can change. Nicky can change. The best outcome is to lead people to a better way of thinking about issues, including this one. The second best, squash it out before it spreads and infects others, or gets normalised or gets credibility. The lies on this anti-semitism subject are so practiced, you can't give it an inch.  Also, the consider typical bullshit of "oh just consider my sentence" instead of considering the agenda that I set, how I framed the topic, the things I chose to talk about, the words I chose to use.  This, Exactly This, is the putrid corruption of modern society.  But usually we don't notice becuase the lies are so carefully practiced.

Some things are worth standing up for.  (Edit: sorry if I lost my skilful means there!)

Malcolm

I see it too. It is happening.

amen, 

אָמֵן

Also, the consider typical bullshit of "oh just consider my sentence" instead of considering the agenda that I set, how I framed the topic, the things I chose to talk about, the words I chose to use.  This, Exactly This, is the putrid corruption of modern society.  But usually we don't notice becuase the lies are so carefully practiced.

That is why, when i really see a fight worth jumping into, I have started being a truly annoying as fuck person from the first recognized exchange, and asked that the other person use "reply-with-quote" in its entirely, in every post, to keep the full development of the conversation in one real akashic record spot throughout. Most people glaze out and skip the whole mess, and bless them. But people really paying attention will know immediately where there's that much smoke, that many boxes within boxes, two people going to that much trouble to keep their argument entire and on the most easily-examinable record possible at any point from beginning to end, the fire can be found, and even maybe who it's burning or warming, and who it's intended to burn or warm.

Some things are worth standing up for.  (Edit: sorry if I lost my skilful means there!)



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curious:
Thank Tim.  It means a lot!  Together, we are stronger.

Edit:  But also, I haven't given up on Nicky.  None of us should.  Although that doesn't mean we have to listen to or tolerate certain comments.

Malcolm


That's fine, I'll take the lead as hard cop then, when i realize shit like this is going on. 

You played soft cop on ninthAI last night wonderfully, by the way, let us all go to bed, by allowing him to slip out of the whole "reply-with-quote" nested box sequence that, at its arduously maintain tiny little box heart at the infinitely receding center of the continued post had him insulting Linda in truly ugly and superior fashion. You came in on his slick restart, and totally let him off the hook by crediting his simple denial of something that no one on earth would ever have the patience to track down and actually examine whether it was true or not in context. So he had ice cream, you offered after dinner cigars, and i went to bed. He's not antisemitic, but I think he's toxic and insulting with truly incredible frequency. 
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We must do our best not to get sucked in by either hatefulness or nihilism from others.  But also we must do our best not to respond in the same way, instead cultivating love and compassion and inclusivness, and the hope of progress for all of us (for if others cannot progress, how can we?).  But that equally that doesn't mean we have to be a soft touch.

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I understand and respect that need for the full context, because history is always reproduced in a selective way, and that can get very toxic. I think this forum is designed to keep records on everything that is published, even if edited or deleted. Still, only moderators can access that, and it's a heavy work load. 
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curious:
We must do our best not to get sucked in by either hatefulness or nihilism from others.  But also we must do our best not to respond in the same way, instead cultivating love and compassion and inclusivness, and the hope of progress for all of us (for if others cannot progress, how can we?).  But that equally that doesn't mean we have to be a soft touch.

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Malcolm
This really has been THE BEST FUCKING SEMINAR ON DOG-WHISTLING

EVER

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Tim Farrington:
curious:
Thank Tim.  It means a lot!  Together, we are stronger.

Edit:  But also, I haven't given up on Nicky.  None of us should.  Although that doesn't mean we have to listen to or tolerate certain comments.

Malcolm


That's fine, I'll take the lead as hard cop then, when i realize shit like this is going on. 

You played soft cop on ninthAI last night wonderfully, by the way, let us all go to bed, by allowing him to slip out of the whole "reply-with-quote" nested box sequence that, at its arduously maintain tiny little box heart at the infinitely receding center of the continued post had him insulting Linda in truly ugly and superior fashion. You came in on his slick restart, and totally let him off the hook by crediting his simple denial of something that no one on earth would ever have the patience to track down and actually examine whether it was true or not in context. So he had ice cream, you offered after dinner cigars, and i went to bed. He's not antisemitic, but I think he's toxic and insulting with truly incredible frequency. 
I think you were both great. And sometimes a cigar is not just a cigar. 

When someone has backed into a corner, they need some space in order to get out from the corner. The great difficulty lies in giving them the space without taking it from those who are vulnerable to their "truth". 
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Tim Farrington:
curious:
We must do our best not to get sucked in by either hatefulness or nihilism from others.  But also we must do our best not to respond in the same way, instead cultivating love and compassion and inclusivness, and the hope of progress for all of us (for if others cannot progress, how can we?).  But that equally that doesn't mean we have to be a soft touch.

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Malcolm
This really has been THE BEST FUCKING SEMINAR ON DOG-WHISTLING

EVER

!!!!

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Good. Please, spread it! 
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
I understand and respect that need for the full context, because history is always reproduced in a selective way, and that can get very toxic. I think this forum is designed to keep records on everything that is published, even if edited or deleted. Still, only moderators can access that, and it's a heavy work load. 

I think Malcolm was gutsy as hell the way he jumped on this shit, alone and out of radio contact, any casual observer coming across the exchanges just thinking, well, there's two guy with some long-term unresolved peronal shit. But it wasn't that. Malcolm recognized the dog whistle, and fought that shit for hours on his own, until you woke up, and i played the buffoon for a while and woke up, and saw why he was so riled in the first place.

Poor malcolm, though. He is actually nice. It's SUCH A CONSTRAINT, to be nice, and i'm glad enough people are willing to do that work around here that i can pretty much live off the fat of the land of milk and honey and pick my spots to be a relentless nemesis fury without heed for consequence, often wrong but never uncertain.

I really hope this doesn't ruin the moderator's breakfast. Isn't the real mess sort of cleaned up at this point?
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Nicky:
Malcolm should stop engaging in false speech and acting like Gestapo Throught Police. 

Malcolm engages in Cesnorship of public material facts of history, such as Wikipedia. 

Malcolm appears seriously deluded and anti-Buddhist. emoticon

Nicky has no interest in the cravings of fools. The Buddha said: 

The fool seeks undeserved reputation, precedence among monks, authority over monasteries, and honor among householders.

Let both laymen and monks think that it was done by me. In every work, great and small, let them follow me" — such is the ambition of the fool; thus his desire and pride increase.

Dhammapada

Citing wikipedia is about as relevant, for the most part, as citing a post here for some academic purpose related to meditation. 

I apologize for letting your cat out of the bag, Nicky. I am habituated to sniff out gaping blind spots and zealots and can't help myself. To answer your question (I think was directed at me..?) - no, I'm not Jewish, though I wouldn't have a problem with it; I'm just an antagonist. I am blessed by my ancestors' kamma to have had a fortunate birth. I appreciate the information you share specifically interpreting the fundamental words of the Buddha - or at least as close to it as we can get in modern times. I dislike your lack of compassion. Hey, are you related to 9thAI?

Anyway - I'm sorry for outing you on the forum and making you unleash all sorts of weirdness. I was being intentionally antagonistic to do it, but now that I have, I regret it. I can see that simply reading the dharma obsessively and with zeal is insufficient and I will continue to strive mightily in my sitting practice. 
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
Tim Farrington:
curious:
We must do our best not to get sucked in by either hatefulness or nihilism from others.  But also we must do our best not to respond in the same way, instead cultivating love and compassion and inclusivness, and the hope of progress for all of us (for if others cannot progress, how can we?).  But that equally that doesn't mean we have to be a soft touch.

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Malcolm
This really has been THE BEST FUCKING SEMINAR ON DOG-WHISTLING

EVER

!!!!

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Good. Please, spread it! 
Spread what in particular, and how? (genuine questions that i don't know either answer to)
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T:
Nicky:
Malcolm should stop engaging in false speech and acting like Gestapo Throught Police. 

Malcolm engages in Cesnorship of public material facts of history, such as Wikipedia. 

Malcolm appears seriously deluded and anti-Buddhist. emoticon

Nicky has no interest in the cravings of fools. The Buddha said: 

The fool seeks undeserved reputation, precedence among monks, authority over monasteries, and honor among householders.

Let both laymen and monks think that it was done by me. In every work, great and small, let them follow me" — such is the ambition of the fool; thus his desire and pride increase.

Dhammapada

Citing wikipedia is about as relevant, for the most part, as citing a post here for some academic purpose related to meditation. 

I apologize for letting your cat out of the bag, Nicky. I am habituated to sniff out gaping blind spots and zealots and can't help myself. To answer your question (I think was directed at me..?) - no, I'm not Jewish, though I wouldn't have a problem with it; I'm just an antagonist. I am blessed by my ancestors' kamma to have had a fortunate birth. I appreciate the information you share specifically interpreting the fundamental words of the Buddha - or at least as close to it as we can get in modern times. I dislike your lack of compassion. Hey, are you related to 9thAI?

Anyway - I'm sorry for outing you on the forum and making you unleash all sorts of weirdness. I was being intentionally antagonistic to do it, but now that I have, I regret it. I can see that simply reading the dharma obsessively and with zeal is insufficient and I will continue to strive mightily in my sitting practice. 
Your subconscious proved to be an excellent guide T.  You should have no regrets.  If we are very lucky, this will unblock something for your interlocuter as well.

Malcolm
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T:
I apologize for letting your cat out of the bag, Nicky. I am habituated to sniff out gaping blind spots and zealots and can't help myself. To answer your question (I think was directed at me..?) - no, I'm not Jewish, though I wouldn't have a problem with it; I'm just an antagonist. I am blessed by my ancestors' kamma to have had a fortunate birth. I appreciate the information you share specifically interpreting the fundamental words of the Buddha - or at least as close to it as we can get in modern times. I dislike your lack of compassion. Hey, are you related to 9thAI?

Anyway - I'm sorry for outing you on the forum and making you unleash all sorts of weirdness. I was being intentionally antagonistic to do it, but now that I have, I regret it. I can see that simply reading the dharma obsessively and with zeal is insufficient and I will continue to strive mightily in my sitting practice. 

well, shit, T, i was hoping you WERE Jewish, as i am an Irish-Catholic-Jewish sectarian myself and intend to to be early in line to getting killed, imprisoned, gassed, or otherwise dying in the guerilla trenches, if the Fourth Reich ever gets any traction.

You did set off a lovely and educational show, outing that dog-whistler on the forum and unleash all his weirdness in its glorious slow-dawning horror: learning AND entertainment! It's like the best meditation EVER.
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Tim Farrington:
Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
I understand and respect that need for the full context, because history is always reproduced in a selective way, and that can get very toxic. I think this forum is designed to keep records on everything that is published, even if edited or deleted. Still, only moderators can access that, and it's a heavy work load. 

I think Malcolm was gutsy as hell the way he jumped on this shit, alone and out of radio contact, any casual observer coming across the exchanges just thinking, well, there's two guy with some long-term unresolved peronal shit. But it wasn't that. Malcolm recognized the dog whistle, and fought that shit for hours on his own, until you woke up, and i played the buffoon for a while and woke up, and saw why he was so riled in the first place.

Poor malcolm, though. He is actually nice. It's SUCH A CONSTRAINT, to be nice, and i'm glad enough people are willing to do that work around here that i can pretty much live off the fat of the land of milk and honey and pick my spots to be a relentless nemesis fury without heed for consequence, often wrong but never uncertain.

I really hope this doesn't ruin the moderator's breakfast. Isn't the real mess sort of cleaned up at this point?

It's good to appear nice. People underestimate you and let their guard down. emoticon 

Which of course is not a problem if THEY are nice. Or at least appear so.  emoticon

EDIT:  P.S. Also not Jewish, not that it matters at all.
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Indeed - that's where I first discovered the breadcrumbs, Tim. 
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Kudos to you T.  Especially calling Nicky out for blaming the holocaust on the Jews karma, as well as many other things.
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T, this is exactly the sort of stuff I experience as tensions in the heart and throat chakra. Dealing with the tough balance of spotting things like this intuitively and finding myself in the midst of something very painful that makes me afraid to open up.

I didn't see it because I didn't read any of those comments soon enough. I'm very grateful that Malcolm did.

I have been in your position, T, as the one who spots it intuitively and provokes it. I have been both in Malcolm's position and tipped over into more of a softy. I have been in Tim's position as the one fiercefully calling out and making a stance. I have been having seizures because I saw all of this and felt helpless and didn't know how to regain faith in the existence. Malcolm's position in this is what always brought me back into functioning as a human being again, so I'm going with that. But that does not mean that there is something wrong about laying things bare that need to be laid bare, or with having strong feelings and making a stance when called for. It can all come together.

I agree with Malcolm that your subconscious is an excellent guide. You are intuitive. That can be very skillful means. You have the heart for it too. And the integrity and the guts. Yes, kudos to you!

edit: This was supposed to be a reply to T. Sorry! 
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Tim: spread what you learned about how dog-whistling works and how to approach it skillfully. Don't worry, you will. 
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T:
Indeed - that's where I first discovered the breadcrumbs, Tim. 


It's doing the real shit-slog work of tracking the breadcrumbs to the baker that is so rare, and understanding what the baker is up to, and whether it is good food or junk food or actual poison. You and Malcolm and Linda, in this particular instance, were all way ahead my curve, you were all able somehow to get from zero to 60 in almost no time, while i took, literally, hours.

The lessons in simple tag-team wrestling 101 are also fascinating to me here. Give Malcolm and me a little time and some learning curve, and we may work out a metta cop/bizarre-off-the-charts cop routine that will give glee to many, and the exact specific dose of a glimpse of the emperor's true ass to a highly select few, in certain specialized circumstances. Linda is woke on so many things, i just want to crawl along behind her reading her fortune cookie slips. And if you don't die of a heart attack or throat cancer in the next few days, T, i want to continue ordering whatever it is they are serving you at the Practice Practice Practice Cafe.
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It's good to appear nice. People underestimate you and let their guard down. 

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Which of course is not a problem if THEY are nice. Or at least appear so.  

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EDIT:  P.S. Also not Jewish, not that it matters at all.

well, all nations will eventually stream up the hill to Zion, as the saints go marching in. But I will vouch for you. Meet me at the back of the line.

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(This response is to the thread, not really to any particular person.) Eh, just to hopefully provide some balance, I'm personally a lot more worried about people who see Nazis everywhere than those who are supposedly saying "antisemitic" stuff. One comment from the other thread was (paraphrasing) "some people hypothesize that anxiety can be traced back to circumcision". If that's antisemitic, then the term antisemitic has no particular meaning that I can discern. You say you're seeing some kind of sinister pattern? Maybe, but apply the principle of charity. I think your anti-Nazi immune response is worse than the supposed threat.
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It might be wise to consider that the fortune cookie slips are part of what makes up the conditions for what will unfold. We are all sowing seeds. Skillful means is spotting the possible seed and the fertile ground and the opportunity and sowing that seed in that fertile ground* in a way that lets something good unfold - and choosing that chain instead of one that causes harm. We are in the now. Thus, nothing is written in stone. That's a weird fucking paradox in a dharma of non-agency, but I find that believing in a choice despite of the non-agency enables skillful means whereas not believing in it tends to lead to resignation. 

*) edited to add: and/or nourishing the ground for the plant. There are different parts to play in the process.
Tim Farrington, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:12 AM
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Brian:
(This response is to the thread, not really to any particular person.) Eh, just to hopefully provide some balance, I'm personally a lot more worried about people who see Nazis everywhere than those who are supposedly saying "antisemitic" stuff. One comment from the other thread was (paraphrasing) "some people hypothesize that anxiety can be traced back to circumcision". If that's antisemitic, then the term antisemitic has no particular meaning that I can discern. You say you're seeing some kind of sinister pattern? Maybe, but apply the principle of charity. I think your anti-Nazi immune response is worse than the supposed threat.

No, really brian, we followed the links that he offered, and he was into all kinds of stuff that said Hitler was a really good guy pushed by the nastiness of Jews to take reasonable measures.
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:13 AM
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We are not labelling anyone as a Nazi. We are saying that certain actions are not okay, without chasing anyone away. 
Tim Farrington, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:32 AM
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö:
It might be wise to consider that the fortune cookie slips are part of what makes up the conditions for what will unfold. We are all sowing seeds. Skillful means is spotting the possible seed and the fertile ground and the opportunity and sowing that seed in that fertile ground* in a way that lets something good unfold - and choosing that chain instead of one that causes harm. We are in the now. Thus, nothing is written in stone. That's a weird fucking paradox in a dharma of non-agency, but I find that believing in a choice despite of the non-agency enables skillful means whereas not believing in it tends to lead to resignation. 

*) edited to add: and/or nourishing the ground for the plant. There are different parts to play in the process.
"The parable is this: the sower soweth the seed, which is the word of God. . ." Luke 8
Mike Smirnoff, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:39 AM
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Question for everyone, not just Tim, I've just responded to his post: Does this forum have a freedom of speech code of conduct?


Even Chomsky -- who, by all means -- would not be a fan of White Supremacists -- has no problem with White Supremacists saying what they want -- because free speech is OK. Of course, that does not mean that any action (including verbal action) is fine, but the point is free speech is OK.

So, what's the code on this forum? Is there a written code? Or it is just that moderators decide? Just wondering.
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:38 AM
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Luke really should give more credit to the nourishers as well, if he doesn't. 
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:44 AM
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Freedom of speech does not mean that everyone has to listen to anything anywhere. And it certainly does not mean prohibiting people from saying no.  

There is a written code that sets boundaries to what can be said here, basically for the protection of human rights.
George S, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:43 AM
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No doubt Nicky has pushed certain people's buttons. If you have a strong reaction then you have 3 choices:

1) Call the police.

2) Engage with him on the facts.

3) Examine your feelings.

I don't see anyone doing much of 2 or 3.

Personally I take issue with his selective choice of certain facts and think there are strong counter-arguments. I also recognize that this topic raises strong pro-Jewish feelings in me due to certain conditioning.
Mike Smirnoff, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:46 AM
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What I'm asking is, is there a written freedom of speech code -- on on basis of what kind of speech, can some one be barred from this forum -- or is it moderators who decide?
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:46 AM
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Or we could just say no to spreading of hateful content. 
Mike Smirnoff, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:48 AM
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I would tend to agree.
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:48 AM
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Mike Smirnoff:
What I'm asking is, is there a written freedom of speech code -- on on basis of what kind of speech, can some one be barred from this forum -- or is it moderators who decide?
There is a written code. I don't recall it being called a freedom of speech code, but it deals with such boundaries. AND it allows moderators to decide. 
T, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:50 AM
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Asking if I were circumcised was only a small piece of what Nicky was up to. Poke around. 
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Linda ”Polly Ester” Ö, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:50 AM
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Personally I would tend to think that not having emotional reactions against spreading of hatred towards an ethnic or religious group is worth investigating. 
Mike Smirnoff, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:50 AM
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Different people might find different things hateful.
Example: A lot of people might say that saying that there is no God is hateful.
Who decides? On what basis?
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Chris M, modified 3 Years ago at 4/16/20 6:51 AM
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I'm freezing this topic.

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