thatsmell wrote:Precious words from a former LaxPower mod who consistently forbade for years any discussion of Donald Trump’s racism. How can a racist BIRTHER like Donald Trump be discussed without referencing his racism? Do you understand even now how OBSCENE your biased censorship was?
DocBarrister
No one forbid discussion of Trump's racism, incompetence or nastiness at LP. We had a whole thread dedicated to it - Orange Duce.
I started the same thread here!
But we did whack posts when people couldn't hold a conversation about those topics in a civil, respectable manner. The name calling, taunting and flaming were the reasons some of your posts got whacked.
But you're no longer shackled by us pesky moderators any more. Please, post to your hearts content- display thy true self here!!!
That is untrue and you know it. Just last month, I included a paragraph in a LaxPower post on what I called Trump’s racist anti-immigrant policy. No attacks on anyone except Trump and his racist anti-immigrant policy. But you deleted almost the entire paragraph.
During the presidential campaign, you deleted virtually any opinion or post that even suggested Trump or Trump’s policies were racist. You left posts alone (generally) where someone thought Trump was a moron, liar, incompetent, etc., but something about opining that Trump was a racist consistently triggered your editing or deletion button.
In some LaxPower posts, to get around your heavy-handed censorship, I simply posted quotes and links ... without any comment from me ... of New York Times or Washington Post articles discussing Trump’s racism or his racist policies. And STILL you deleted or heavily edited those posts. What was good enough for The NY Times or the Washington Post was apparently not good enough for you. High standards or biased moderating? Those particular edits and deletions of unadorned quotes from two of the world’s leading newspapers demonstrated that you were censoring the SUBJECT MATTER of Trump’s racism, not any purported violation of LaxPower rules.
That’s pretty unacceptable when it comes to discussions of a documented racist like Donald Trump (and the documentation begins with federal government housing documents from the early 1970s). You have never adequately explained your actions on this issue. I can only surmise that you didn’t want the many Trump supporters on the forum to be offended, but that isn’t enough of a reason to censor documented facts (simply put ... if nothing else ... Trump’s a Birther, which means Trump’s a RACIST ... end of discussion). Perhaps you don’t consider any discussion of racism as “civil”, but racism, especially in the Era of Trump, is among the most important topics for “civil” discussion that we could have here or on any other forum.
Whether you ever moderate another forum isn’t up to me. I’m sure moderating LaxPower was hard work. But your heavy hand in moderating LaxPower did not speak well about your objectivity and fairness.
DocBarrister
