Moderation on the forum

Is it acceptable behaviour that a mod has allowed a user to be called a racist?

The proof cited by the mod of the 'racism' is clearly a tongue in cheek comment made to criticize the use of the word racism, and in no way admits to being racist, yet is being interpreted literally and now perpetuated across the site. I and other posters have since been called or implied as racist also.

Lots of mods have commented on this since to me, saying "he's said it before" "He's said it in other threads" etc.. And I have researched and spent hours, and not found proof. This is a lie.

It seems moderators and admins are equating racism with not wanting completely open borders, a crime committed by a certain group of people these days.

I have had dozens of replies in the Gemma thread, the feedback thread, my own resolution dispute with Beasty in the feedback thread, and yet no-one has been nice enough to point me to evidence of this supposed 'racism'.

Not only is it a running joke, but highlights perfectly the hypocrisy of this website these days.

Not only that, but when I try to point it out to the authorities involved, they call me a **** poster, they say I am employing circular arguments, and they say I'm just trying to cause trouble. Nice of them to know my intentions.

This is the post that is completely objectionable:

Stephen15 wrote: »

I'm not entirely sure about the conspiracy theory stuff. But I agree with her when it comes to issues like mass immigration, multiculturalism and PC culture. Immigration is becoming a big issue here in Ireland and people are not willing to talk about it

Walter Bishop wrote: »

Hardly a surprise Stephen, as like her, you're a racist.
Mod: Please stop reporting this post. Stephen15 has admitted he is a racist.

This is the post the moderator refers to that Stephen 'admits' his racism.

Stephen15 wrote: »

If racist means loving your family and by extension to that your country and wanting to defend both as well the western way of life then I'm a racist and proud. In order to do that I believe your borders should be shut as the saying goes you don't lock your door because you hate the people outside you do because you love the people inside.
Same concept here close the borders to defend our country it's culture, heritage and values.

[Please note this comment was made BEFORE the 'proof' cited by the admin. BEFORE]

I would appreciate it if Beasty has nothing to do with this matter. In the past has proved to be completely dishonest when dealing with me.

• So either can you please prove to me this user's racism, or could you please tell me what definition of racism you're using.
  
  
• Or if you want to do the right thing, delete post#8 in the Gemma thread in Current Affairs, and start reprimanding posters that call others racist without proof.

I have been thread-banned by Beasty from two threads talking about this matter; and I will not stop. It's ridiculous and it's wrong. You all know it. I will not shut up.

All it will take to shut me up is to do one of the two things in bold. But admins would prefer to threadban me and shut up my opinion. Wouldn't it be easier to prove the user in question's racism?????????


I know mods/admins are perfectly capable of recognizing tongue in cheek comments. I'm just so curious why they are so willfully ignorant in this case.

Beasty wrote: »

Do you genuinely think they were being serious?

Mr E wrote: »

In a thread that started with lots of tongue-in-cheek remarks, it's another tongue-in-cheek remark.
It was an attempt at a humourous comment that fell a little bit flat (or dare I say, sank).

mike_ie wrote: »

I don't know definitively if Stephen15 is a racist.

It's a flagrant abuse of the rules, akin to how the moderators around here used to mess with people's avatars. No different.