For an unambiguously racist reference to President Barack Obama as a “silver back.” Libertad is a frequent pusher of the bounds of appropriate behavior, although it could be argued he is more effective at persuading others to disagree with him. Although we are tolerant of diverse viewpoints, vigorous debate, and judiciously-employed strong language, we must enforce minimal standards of conduct for the sake of our broader community.
Libertad’s Colorado Pols account will be restored Friday.
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the penalties for repeat offenders need to be stiffer, especially since one well known polster was banned for a most-likely accidental racist term as well as “outing.”
can we all agree it can be shunned?
Just treat it like a pop up advertisement, or the webinar thing. It’s ok to notice, and even to make fun, but do not engage.
Works great in Firefox and Chrome.
And if you feel a comment by him must be responded to – leave it to the first response.
for good behavior and restore his account on the 30th?
“silverback” and am at a loss to know why it would be considered racist. Wetback is racist, yes. but Silverback? Can anyone enlighten me as the derivation of that term?
and check out the thesaurus portion.
I didn’t know that had come into common parlance. It’s even more vile now.
I didn’t want to copy and paste that portion because it makes me feel sick just reading it.
Sorry to snap at you in the other thread. I really do apologize. I don’t feel so hot today and that’s no excuse for being rotten.
Assuming your comment was in earnest (I couldn’t find it as being anything but), I think you can see why it would be racist when used to describe Barack Obama.
That I think almost as little of people that throw the term ‘racist’ around inaccurately as I do people that are actually racist.
Paraphrasing Malcom X, ‘Hey, at least the racists are being honest’.
That said, there is no way that’s not a blatant, racist name to throw at any black man. It doesn’t belong here, or anywhere.
you have respect here. I agree entirely.
Thanks LB.
And that guy deserves to be banned.
just to be clear: “cracker” and meaningless outing of a poster who posted under his real name got a guy banned.
This should too.
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Much like Napoleon was banished to Corsica. Tad will have to learn the metric system though, don’t know if he can handle that.
than it is here. About 46 degrees today, if I’m converting Celsius correctly.
Got anything warmer you’d like to sell us, Hubbert?
but you know that already. Cheers.