Woman guilty of 'racist' Snap Dogg rap lyric Instagram post

[Jumper118]

We're quickly heading there to be fair and wasting police/court time with pathetic trials over people finding things offensive seems to have become the norm.

I miss the days when children were brought up being taught "Sticks and stones will hurt my bones but words will never hurt me" and "It's a free country", they were two of the earliest phrases I learned in infant school. Now it's all safe spaces, trigger warnings, victim mentality and being offended by the tiniest infringements people have been conditioned to perceive.

There is no place in society for real racism but it needs to be gotten rid of through education and mutual respect not a big brother government, criminalising someone for repeating song lyrics that the black community itself is publishing is horrifying. When you have different laws/rules for different racial groups that's what causes division/resentment and it's the left perpetuating it.

Agreed.

 

[Mr Badger]

As this thread as been resurected probably worth pointing out that Chelsea Russell won an appeal against her conviction

On another note its refreshing as always to see regular posters like d.p engaging in conspiracy theories and casual racism....

Because of course everyone that disagrees with posters like that is likely either a Russian agent of their political thoughts and decisions are the principal result of some form of subversive Russian interference right?

The Russians have become, in a certain way, the new 'Jews' for certain segments of the left.

I. E a bogeyman group who can be the targets of conspiracy theories about subversive influence in society and an almost universal answer for unfavorable political outcomes.

This isn't to say that no Russians or groups of Russians are of haven't been engaged in active subversion abroad (of any other group including Jews) but the knee jerk 'retort' to immediately go to must be a russian bot/agent etc is casual racism...

After all there its hardly unheard of for someone living under a former 'socialist' or 'communist' regime (from countries like Romania Hungary, the Baltic states etc) who now lives in the west to be sounding the alarm about what they perceive to be expanding state speech codes and speech suppression.

Well "conspiracy theories and casual racism" is the GD motto.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

I had no clue I have resurrected the Lazarus of this forum, I thought the issue is still discussed. Anyways, thank you for applying some logic and critical thinking to the "accusations". Now I know how it is to be a "privilegded" white guy in today's society )
It is also interesting to see this paranoia towards the Russians, this "big Other" that unites people in the West...

Stick around Alina and you will quickly find out that even though I love the place it is a 1000x worse than Facebook even though some of the posters in here think they are far removed from Facebook.
Some of them live in a fantasy world and are very suspicious of new posters with less than 10 posts.

 

[NVP]

Only if you pay attention to the trash. There is a higher majority of intellectual posters, they just aren't as loud or frequent.

 

[Dirk Diggler]

even using my real name out of ignorance, because I have no clue about how to change it

It's not too difficult.

https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll

 

[Akagi]

@Alina Pohariu

I apologise for the reception my fellow members have given you... It was quite embarrassing to read. I promise you it's not always like this around here...

SexyGreyFox summed it up pretty well...

 

[Angilion]

What is "necro a thread"?

To post in a thread that has not been posted in for a significant amount of time. Such threads are considered dead and posting in them is therefore bringing them back from the dead, i.e. necromancy. It's widely considered rude, although I don't know why. Old threads are still currently available, the net is quite searchable and if the mods wanted to stop people posting in a thread they could do so by locking the thread.

I'm not a "poster",

You have made posts, therefore you're a poster.

I found a discussion on an issue I'm interested in and I post my opinion on it,

Which is what forums are for. You did post an opinion, a reasonable opinion reasonably expressed. The only reason some people are being hostile to you is this "necro" custom, which makes no sense to me.

even using my real name out of ignorance, because I have no clue about how to change it

Didn't you get a choice of what username to use when you registered? You used to, but I don't know if that's changed since I registered here.

You can ask a mod to change your username, but it is the custom here that when a poster asks for their username to be changed it's changed it to something silly.

...so...where's the "evil"?)

It's the "necro" thing. Some people seem to confuse posting in an old thread that's still publically available worldwide and will show in search engines and suchlike with actual necromancy, i.e. raising the dead as your thralls or something.

 

[NVP]

@Alina Pohariu

I apologise for the reception my fellow members have given you... It was quite embarrassing to read. I promise you it's not always like this around here...

SexyGreyFox summed it up pretty well...

 

[skyripper]

Didn't you get a choice of what username to use when you registered? You used to, but I don't know if that's changed since I registered here.

You can ask a mod to change your username, but it is the custom here that when a poster asks for their username to be changed it's changed it to something silly.

If you want your name changed to something relevant to you - ask a Mod.
If you want your name changed to something bloody stupid based on public opinion - ask for it in public.

 

[SexyGreyFox]

Someone is googling a topic or whatever, comes across a forum where that topic has been discussed. Is openly interested in the topic, registers to add to it. Thats how people find this place. Just because it has Overclockers in the title, how many came here to specifically get a few more Mhz out of a CPU??

Just before Christmas somebody searched Google, found something I had wrote in 2006 they didn't agree with and screen grabbed it back to me

 

[Angilion]

Interesting...I had no clue about this necro action, but good to know. I'm not a regular "poster" on anything, to be more specific. I'm also technically very very stupid, I'm not going to sugarcoat it. Apparently, I ended up on a forum filled with tech savviness and I'm getting my ass kicked, which is fine. Live and learn )

Tech savviness, certainly, but that's not to be confused with intelligence or with education in any other area of knowledge. Besides, this is the general discussion forum and not one of the tech forums. As for getting your ass kicked...note that nobody has effectively rebutted your argument. The only opposing posts have been about you posting in a thread nobody has posted to recently (oh no, what a terrible thing, woe is me!) and 1 or 2 saying that the UK isn't a totalitarian state at the moment, which isn't a rebuttal to your argument because you didn't say that it was.

Thank you for the suggestions; it wouldn't have mattered the name, but I think now it's a bit late for that, therefore, I'm going to leave it at that. I don't get how the public can change my username though...

Custom. The actual change has to be done by a person with a high enough level of privilege to do so, but the custom is for posters in the general discussion forum to suggest silly names and for the mod/admin to use one of those. It's a form of democracy.

...even if I head towards the homecooking or sports section as I've been suggested ), I'm sure someone would have something to bitch about

Try graphics cards for bitching. It's a good fit because there are only two significant companies in discrete graphics and so people can easily divide up and pick a side.

It's not usually hostile here, which was why the "welcome" you received has attracted this much attention. Hmm...there are a lot of computer enthusiasts here...maybe someone was jealous of Romania's internet infrastructure (*)



* I don't know how long you've been here, whether you're British or Romanian or how much interest you have in technical stuff, so I'll pop in a quick explanation. Romania's communications infrastructure is mostly new and mostly not congested, so average internet speeds are relatively high there. Quite a bit better than in countries with long established comms infrastructure, like the UK. One of the problems of being an early adopter in a developing technology.

 

[Marky]

Who is this “Snap Dogg” fellow I’m hearing about?