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Toddlers get too much exercise, they wouldn't make good veal.
Quote from: Sigmaleph on March 23, 2015, 10:28:34 pmAs a general rule, safe spaces are meant to have harsh social norms against abuse. Obviously that can backfire if you have designated moderators that are the ones perpetrating the abuse and you can't remove them, but "authorities abuse their power" is a general failure mode of basically every human community, it's not exclusive to safe spaces.Safe spaces harbor victims of abuse. I consider it a uniquely vile offense when the heads of those communities manipulate the trust an already vulnerable segment of the population places in them.At least other forums can throw shit around and fragment. Dysfunctional safe spaces make their members feel more worthless and outcast than they felt without any community support.
As a general rule, safe spaces are meant to have harsh social norms against abuse. Obviously that can backfire if you have designated moderators that are the ones perpetrating the abuse and you can't remove them, but "authorities abuse their power" is a general failure mode of basically every human community, it's not exclusive to safe spaces.
Quote from: Ironchew on March 23, 2015, 10:48:03 pmQuote from: Sigmaleph on March 23, 2015, 10:28:34 pmAs a general rule, safe spaces are meant to have harsh social norms against abuse. Obviously that can backfire if you have designated moderators that are the ones perpetrating the abuse and you can't remove them, but "authorities abuse their power" is a general failure mode of basically every human community, it's not exclusive to safe spaces.Safe spaces harbor victims of abuse. I consider it a uniquely vile offense when the heads of those communities manipulate the trust an already vulnerable segment of the population places in them.At least other forums can throw shit around and fragment. Dysfunctional safe spaces make their members feel more worthless and outcast than they felt without any community support.Not sure what point you're trying to make here that is unique to safe spaces. All communities with victims of abuse have a risk of authorities being abusive, which yes, is horrible.Is your point that the community norms of safe spaces make this a greater risk, or remove options for dealing with it if that happens?
I'd be more sympathetic if people here didn't act like they knew what they were saying when they were saying something very much wrong.
Commenter Brendan Rizzo is an American (still living there) who really, really hates America. He used to make posts defending his country from anti-American attacks but got fed up with it all.
Quote from: Cataclysm on April 02, 2015, 11:15:42 am[-snip-]There needs to be a communist equivalent to Godwin's law.
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Burn fire! Hellfire! Now Anita, its your turn! Choose GamerGate, or your pyre!Be mine or you will buuurn!!
I sympathize completely. However, to use against us. Let me ask you a troll. On the one who pulled it. But here's the question: where do I think it might as well have stepped out of all people would cling to a layman.
I'll stop eating beef lamb and pork the same day they start letting me eat vegetarians.
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Life for the sake of life means nothing.
Quote from: I am lizard on April 06, 2015, 12:53:10 amhttps://think69.com/this-generations-tech-addiction-posters-by-ajit-johnson/But...tech and gaming addiction are totally things! Just ask my pastor!
Pardon the interruption, good sir/lady; there are aspects of your behavior that I find quite unbecoming, and I must insist most strenuously that I be permitted to assist in resolving these behaviors through the repeated high-velocity cranial introduction of particularly firm building materials.
GIVE ME KNOWLEDGE OR I WILL PUT A CAP IN YO ASS!
Quote from: RavynousHunter on April 06, 2015, 10:29:47 amQuote from: I am lizard on April 06, 2015, 12:53:10 amhttps://think69.com/this-generations-tech-addiction-posters-by-ajit-johnson/But...tech and gaming addiction are totally things! Just ask my pastor!Well, I can certainly testify that they are, having been to bloody rehab for them.
