Ignorance and Moderation

I do admire your intention on this topic but I just feel that this kind of open progress isn't possible in such a short space of time.

My personal stance would be that the words should be eradicated but not forgotten (too many lessons about the wrongs of humanity to just ignore completely).

I'm completely with you on the subject of Gypsies and their being passed over in terms of what is deemed acceptable (also, people's ideas of what a Gypsy actually is gets muddied by poor knowledge as society seems to overlook the entire race). Furthermore, I think that the mass suffering and atrocities experienced by the Gypsies during WWII gets criminally overlooked at a blanket level.

 

Well thanks, Brix.
I thought I conducted myself pretty well on here.
(Sorry for my lack of posting recently, everyone, I have been reading the board, but I just haven't known what to say. Great conversations though)

 

Yes a lot of my family tree stopped during WW2 without a fair fight, I returned to this forum, not with a zany ego that needed to be feed but with a mission to contribute as subject had gone off football anyway. I have to believe that in debate we all help each other educate .. I certainly learn everyday and i am glued to people's opinions on here.

 

You have Young One ... ageism great topic sometime ... what have we given the next generation? ... The Bullshit of Universities? while the rest of the world laughs? .. for me its a two way thing if you can't learn from a 3 year old or from a 93 year old ... you can't learn IMO

 

Semantics is not what this thread is all about. In fact it's a complete distraction.

The thread's actually about knowing the score and self-moderating to keep things easy. Simple.

Deliberate provocation (and giving me and the other mods unnecessary agg.) is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated.

Does anyone have any issues with either this or the house rules set out on page 2? If not, do the decent thing, apply basic standards to your expressions and move on. As mods, our agreed default is light touch - but if you see something disrespectful about travellers or any other minority, challenge it openly or by PM and we'll have a look.

 

That my friend is very clever ... brilliant I have real trouble typing

 

Thank you

 

With the exception of a few disparaging remarks about older posters a few months ago, you've been fine mate!

As it happened we let that go on the strength that most of us are big and ugly enough to appreciate where you were coming from. If anyone had complained though, I wouldn't have hesitated to pull out the yellow card!!

 

You honky bastard

 

John Shaft? Are you still alive?!!

 

Never mind Victorian society, Cerny declared he was dispensing this form of justice only a month ago!

Some very good articles written on this. Matt is on the money as per, but for me Beth's wee piece hit the nail on the head.

I'd just like to echo the sentiments expressed towards the Mods. We've got the best Mods across all the Boards as far as I can see. They do a top job and I, for one, am very grateful to them for that.

(I know some of us must be a right pain in the arse for them! )

 

Oh you are getting the idea you great big northern bully ... raped and pillaged anyone lately?

 

You can be - but only in the sense that in winding certain people up, we risk calls to ban you. This imho would be a great loss to the spirit of our board. Fortunately no formal complaints received.

(As for other boards, mods do complain about you. We just advise them to decide what they want to do about it.)

 

Sheriff Brix and Deputy Nuts: I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability.

Keep up the good work boys!

 

Was joking before but might be good idea to delete this thread before things turn for the worse.

There's an an obvious strong divergence of opinion on what may or may not constitute racist speech or even indeed racism. Be it age, political ideology or personal opinions we're going nowhere on this subject as is.

 

Thread's not about racism so much as about ignorance and the way mods have to deal with it.

 

Maybe Imaz, but at least the conversation about this is confined to the one thread. it would be harder to monitor and control if these conversations spread out - and they would, because we all have the subject on our minds right now.

 

probably a good idea
now honky is being used we might offend the white people
as an observation would it be true to say that all gypos are honkys

 

No. But then, the current 'traveller' population has, in my opinion, as much connection to the true Romany Gypsy as I do, and I've rarely entered a caravan by choise in all my years.

Dale Farmers are pretty much all sponging benefit-cases with criminal intent and low morality. However, true Romany people are perfectly fine.

 

Thanks Willy be sure to check your roof later