BO-CEPHUS said:
I think it deals with the following:
real life
Not. This is not real life. People like Aryan Soldat would never walk into a group of strangers and begin spewing the kind of gratuitiously hateful and irrelevant rhetoric that filled his posts. Generally, people here -- and throughout the internet -- are able to say far more than they can get away with in real life in ordinary company.
Nevertheless, Elite, like many other sites, has rules against GRATUITOUS attacks on people's ethnicity, skin color, gender, sexual orientation. Read this carefuylly: This does not mean that you aren't free to engage your xenophobia, your racism, your sexism and your dislike of gay people in discussions that pertain to those subjects. Nor does anyone care if the two-thirds heterosexual majority likes to amuse itself by accusing one another of employing butt plugs in the absence of an erection sufficent to perform sodomy. (Deca Dick apparently induces homosexual fantasies.)
But to initiate threads which are nothing but attacks on a person's race, gender or sexual orientation -- or to attack someone in the middle of a discussion on that basis because you've run out of ideas -- is reprehensible. It's not condoned anywhere in civilized society ethically or legally -- any more than the breathtakingly unkind posting here about Flex.
This isn't about "political correctness." It's about ordinary respect and subsuming it under the demonized label of PC is as rhetorically stupid as calling physical abuse a parental right. Idiocy and unkindness seek their own level. I'm sure Aryan Soldat will be quite happy at Triedia, therefore.