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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
So...why is it okay for posters to dump all over religion, making all sorts jokes, assumptions and generalizations yet any jokes or "offensive" comments on race or sexuality, or pet s and there owners, are deleted, and posters warned? Mods it's gotta be all or nothing.
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If that was the standard then we couldn't allow any negative comments about the Vancouver Canucks. Is that a world you want to live in? IS IT!?
I thought it was obvious, but the difference is that race, gender, and sexuality are all things that someone is, while favorite hockey team, political preference, and religion are all things that someone thinks.
In general it's ok to criticize an idea based on what that idea says, but it's not ok to criticize someone just because they're black/a woman/etc.
We don't like it when ideas are irrationally criticized or trolled either (i.e. saying all conservatives are morons or all liberals are morons), but that of course is harder to define and police, because criticism of an idea that a group shares should be allowed if it is supportable/rational/etc.
So threads about ideas (politics, religion, some areas of science) are more difficult to find the line, and doing so can be time consuming and the mods all volunteer their personal time to mod. Spending an hour sifting through a politics or religion thread to figure out "who started it" just isn't reasonable sometimes. But we really don't want to ban those threads entirely. So people should have a thicker skin if they choose to participate in those kinds of threads.
Hope that helps.