fairydandy wrote:Here is what a moderator (WeeMann) called me a racist for today.
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Does anyone else seriously think that comment deserves the label 'racist? Does a smiley have to be added to every post on here? You know, there is a lot of racist people out there...but this is just political correctness gone crazy. I am very serious about this. He should resign, it's ridiculous.
There is no point in complaining, they just group together and everything is white-washed. All we can do is register our dis-quiet in threads like this.
OK, against my better judgement, we'll do this publicly then. Just remember, however, that if you decide to turn this into a dialogue and things get said publicly that you don't like, that's the way you wanted to play it, it wasn't my decision.
I want to make an apology. Your comment the other day struck a chord with me and I didn’t like it. I couldn’t see the humour in it and am still not completely convinced that’s the way you originally intended it, but if you say that’s the way you meant it, I’ll just have to accept that.
Likewise, I know you won’t believe me when I say that my original comment was meant as no more than a bit of a wind up. Badly judged, perhaps, but certainly not meant to offend.
That having been said, at no time did I say I thought you were a racist, my post merely makes an observation about various views often posted on here which disgust me. I stand by that view and will never apologise for my standpoint on the subject, I will only apologise if you felt an offensive comment was aimed at you.
I do have to question one thing, though. If it were truly meant in jest, why not say that right from the start, rather than make such a fuss over my response? It would have stopped the whole thing dead in its tracks.