I don’t want a ban on racist discussions, especially from the mods, but would like to see some diversification in topics some members talk about. Some people ONLY talk about race. It rapidly becomes pointless.
And Sauwelios is a default Social Nationalist on this site. He tries to be closet about it, but he quotes authors revered by the original US Neo-Nazis group, even had a swatzika up as a avatar. But he is also includes a lot of shit they wouldn’t talk about, which would fit into my expectations above of at least varying it a bit.
Like, if we had a Black Panthar join the site, it would get really old after 6 months if all he posted was on that topic exclusively, his posts amounting only to “Fuck White People”, but what happens if he occasionally posts on Fluid Dynamics and Hegel, seemingly unrelated whatsoever? Shows the individual has scope.
I’m not sure there are a lot if intelligent racists out there who can pull that off. We seem to only get the dummies.
I would prefer a ban on people who just never show growth or diversification of thought. After a while, you should be expanding out. I tend to grow intolerant of people who show long term resistance to thinking upon new topics. That would be Sauwelios as the archetype, but also would include several others here (those I’m in the most conflict here, like your GF Joker) or Magsj. It’s a big pet peeve of mine, intellectual sloth.
Also those philosophies that build upon intellectual sloth to justify self harm, like Gib’s drug use threads, or Ecmandu (if he was sane, but doubt he knows what he is doing fully).
I really don’t see the point to those three groups of people within philosophy. Racists don’t have a leg to stand on, all it is is stating you don’t like someone without cause other than your bias based less on their merit and ideas, and more on useless traits like skin color. Not really a deep intellectual pool.
Lazy, slothful, one category ideas aren’t useful on the large scale, unless you stick to just a few posts. That Zizek Studies guy does that quite well, I would never pose a unrelated question to him though. He is about the best you can do in that category of mono-thinker.
And people who needlessly harm and would themselves practice a philosophy, but it is one that comes at absolute expense of all other philosophy. Gib, Smears… they both represent a desire to self destruct on their own terms, like Petronius Arbiter committing suicide. It isn’t something wise, to be recommended as a alternative to living life in a more productive manner. Both will be dead soon, and we will all act shocked when their family come online to announce they died with a needle in their arm. Of course that’s what happens when you embrace retarded, self destructive, suicidal practices.
But how would I enforce that? Would I deny Gig, Smears, Ecmandu access to philosophy? No- they may rush quicker to their deaths without contrasting opinions.
Would I ban Arc, Magsj, or Mongoose for systematically avoiding thinking and expansion into new areas of the mind, by saying they can’t visit one of the few places that encourage that?
Would I ban the racists here for being ignorant, denying them a challenge to think more broadly, to challenge their ideas?
I’ve been consistent in my approach to these groups, I’ve hounded the lazy to expand their ideas, encouraged the self destructive to wiser considerations of lifestyle, both through positive and negative reinforcement. I mostly laid off the racists when their numbers started dying down- but I’m gonna redouble my efforts. I was surprised when people started complaining about my signature for example, thought it be disgust because he was violent (machine gun preacher) but it was on race, which I wasn’t expecting.
I’m gonna start pressing people to focus more on philosophy, less on racism. I’m gonna encourage a diversification of ideas, and keep pressing on avoiding self destructive, suicidal tendencies. All three are the enemy of philosophy, but it is best pursued by users talking than moderators banning. Great ideas can’t be achieved through those three categories of hate, sloth, and suicide. Three vices of philosophy. Nothing would excite me more than to see Mongoose reading, or Smears actually trying at life. Neither can do anything of value in their current state. Our racist posters, they need to just start on Philosophy 101. Show some evidence you have ideas beyong disliking people of another skin tone. Do you have a opinion on anything else? Anything at all? Even Sauwelios manages to have a occasional opinion beyond that, so I know it can be done. If he can do it, I know you can do it too, anyone can. That’s how low the bar is set. Just try to impress us every once in a while. Satyr tries, why can’t you? Pandora is a man hating Feminist, but actively posts on politics beyond that. I’m supportive of these efforts, applaud it.