Well stated and I DO agree with you. I will say it’s the context that gives this all meaning. I’m by no means a liberal running around calling for everything offensive to be removed. I’m not calling anyone racists either.
Let me recant where all this came from as it will help point out why I personally got offended.
@Urgentfury12 has stated repeatedly that he is proud of his Nordic decent. I have NO ISSUES with that. He’s stated he has Nordic tattoos and tattoos of runes, again no problem. During that discussion a guy (and I’m sorry I forget who) posted his tattoo. It was pretty bad and no one could decipher wtf it was. Someone asked and it was a woodpecker. That was then equated with white pride. That’s where we were treading on thin ice and that’s where
@Morefyah originally commented and called it out for being racist, which it was. And then gang mentality rose up against
@Morefyah defending the guys, most of which aren’t even here anymore. I pointed out there’s no place for that stuff in this thread, it’s all negative. I hoped that we moved on. But guys, you know what the undertone is. You post that stuff up to get a rise out of
@Morefyah. “Look, it LOOKS racist but it’s not” and then you defend your argument.
I agree the confederate flag is part of history. The only thing that makes that a racist symbol is that white hate groups adopted it. And now as a result historical statues are coming down. That’s wrong but it’s the white hate groups that are ultimately responsible. They ruined it.
All through my childhood nazi has been taught as being bad and evil. That’s the history that we learn. That coin was posted because it’s nazi but “just a coin so you can’t call it racist”. The “game” or “joke” got carried away. You know you guys took it too far. Admit it and move on. I’ve posted no less than 3 times that we need to avoid that crap. It only results in negativity. Thank god no one posts about politics too much. That gets negative quick.
Post guns. Post cars. I don’t care. I’m not into that, but I like that you all get excited and eager to share. That’s all positive. I’m totally into sports and my Philly teams are doing well. I’ve tried posting about that but you guys aren’t heavy into sports. No big deal. But that’s positive stuff too.
Buttholes are positive. Steroids positive. Training is positive. These are all things that bring us all here. I didn’t come here to get offended and I don’t want to derail this thread with this shit. It’s draining me and I felt like a zombie all day because it sucks not being able to post good shit here.
This place isn’t censored and I’m not idealistic enough to believe everyone is going to always agree. But when in doubt just keep everything positive!