My point is simple. You are as much of the problem as them. You call people names; conflate their crimes as the worse things that can be imagined. Just the same as them. I see those extremists claim and seemingly think that all Muslims are violent and ready to kill all others not like them. They have their reasons. Did not groups of Muslims attack and kill people in the name of their religion? Innocent people at that? So I understand where they are coming from. I get it. I just don't agree with what they have become; the direction their anger has taken them. And especially how they blame the whole religion for the actions of a few.

I see you as an extremist who sees anyone who votes for Trump or dared consider voting for Trump as completely racist and xenophobic. I get it. It's remeniscent of a bygone era. Frustrated people banded together and cast blame on other races and religions and started a world war. But why are you blaming every Trump supporter? They didn't start World War II. Many had reason to vote the way they did that had nothing to do with racism. But you in your infinite lack of wisdom cannot see through your own hate and have chosen to polarize. You are as bad as those you detest. It's very obvious. You have drunk the Kool-Aid so much that you cannot see straight and see

I see both of you as short-sighted idiots blinded by their own hatred. And as the forum goes, and I wouldn't be all that sad to see them go, if all those who are judging people en masse and spreading this hate are censored, then so should be you and dtgreene. Because both of you two hate masses of people based on differences you aren't even trying to understand.

All of you are the problem and both sides see themselves as right enough that they cannot even see in the mirror that they are just as bad as those they are complaining about. Both of you in your infinite lack of wisdom cannot see through your own hate and have chosen to polarize. You are as bad as those you detest. It's very obvious. You have drunk the Kool-Aid so much that you cannot see straight.

Like I said, I wouldn't be sad to see the worst cases of prejudice gone. But Telika, you and dtgreene should also be gone for your clear and vocal prejudice against so many for so little reason. Both of you are just as bad. Pot and Kettle both complaining about each other.

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zeogold, you need to learn that "opinions" that minorities do not deserve equal rights, or that minorities do not deserve to be respected, are not ever justified. (This is especially significant if you happen to be talking to somebody who is in such a minority group.)

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I AM a minority.

No you are only minority if the white liberal declares you are... get it right

Actually, you are mischaracterizing my view about those who should be banned and silenced; I only think that those users who actually have repeatedly been nasty towards specific users or been using offensive language (and possibly other severe violations) should be banned or silenced. There aren't that many users like this (take a look at the forum as a whole, not just this topic), but I can see 2 users who have made such posts in this topic, and 1 who posted early in the topic who has elsewhere posted such nasty language.

Even though I consider the act of supporting Trump to be racist, I wouldn't consider claiming to support Trump, by itself, to be a bannable offense on this forum.

Agreed, but that should also be applied for similarly direct sexist, ableist, homophobic, and transphobic statements.

Hey, are minorities rated on some kind of scale? What happens when my minority outranks your minority? Do we go to minority court to get a ruling? Where can one get a minority card? Does it guarantee discounts at Denny's?

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Actually, to me light moderation would be enough to get rid of a large portion of the posts in this thread directed at me.

I'm not an extremist; I just feel that people should not be disrespected just because of who they are.

I see your race card and cast...cattank!

Most people aren't mad at you because of who you are.
Most people are mad at you for what you do.

I haven't been insulting any users who haven't insulted me. (The language that some people on the forum have used counts as insulting me.)

I cast...credit card!
Calling people "bigot" is an insult.

I'll repeat my point here. If a non-racist person voted for Trump, that person *did not consider racism to be a dealbreaker*, and that tells you something rather uncomfortable about the person. A person who would not consider something major like that (or sexism, homophobia, transphobia, etc.) to be a dealbreaker is not somebody I would want as a friend.

Just be aware that, while you may be a minority in one respect, you might not be in other respects, and you do not automatically understand that other minority.

How would you feel if people were using slurs to attack the minority that you're part of? (Or one of them, if there's more than one.)