Everyone is saying to bring it to the appropriate thread so:
You say that, but he was using white supremacist dog whistles and code words.
Once he crossed that line, I was openly belligerent towards him. Hell, half the posts defending him were likely citing me. But he never backed down from his white supremacist statements, he deflected and changed topics and pretended it didn’t happen.
I don’t want to speak for Nesrie or anyone else, but the fact that everyone hand-waved that crap away is likely why people got so upset and even left. I came around and tried to reach him, but it quickly became obvious he wasn’t here to talk, he was here to seed alt-right talking points and see what happened.
Whatever, it happened and it’s over as far as that specific incident, but the reality is that the precedent has been set that if you’re a polite racist, then everyone is cool with it. That’s a pretty shitty standard to have. The rules might say racism isn’t allowed, but… it really is as long as you use code words and are mostly polite while you do it. That core issue was never resolved.
- Copy and pasted from other thread, so might be less cohesive than intended.