Dear all,
This is my final post at ILP. I do not want to be associated with this board. I have decided to write this post to alert those who are unaware of what kind of policy that this website adheres to, and strongly urge many of you to reconsider joining, or remaining a member.
A post in the Rant House, under the thread “Slavery Reparations†was made by abgrund on Thursday November 18, 2004 (5:57 am):
The moderators feel that this post is simply “uniformed.”
There is a lot of uniformed talk that occurs here. A lot. Certain members have been banned for being uniformed. Warrior Munk comes to mind. Somehow, uniformed posts and those that are also hateful, racists and evil in intent are lumped in the same category as, say, attributing an automatic equivalence theory between a right and a duty. Claiming an animal-like status of members of a different race and then expressing a desire to eat them does not carry the same weight as mixing up Descartes’ ontological and causal arguments for the existence of God.
But the moderators of this site feel that they are of equal weight.
No moderator has explained to me WHY they take this stand, or what reasoning they used to get there. I have pm’ed all, none have given me a reason why they have made this decision. Ben just informed me that they have.
I understand that a former member of the board is no longer a moderator because he made comments that are anti-Semitic in nature. It is a shame that this intolerance for discrimination is applied in only a selective nature. I would hope that the toleration of any hate, towards any group (even if you are not a member) means that all other groups suffer, the human race suffers.
This post is most importantly meant to establish one thing – that all posts made by me were done so as my contribution to this site. I stand here ashamed that I have been associated with this site. I want no such recognition, nor such acknowledgement. I need to make this very clear.
I regret coming to this site, posting on this site, and having my name appear on this site. This post is meant as an explanation and a renouncement of such actions.
– Trix