CANHawk wrote:But you know what I really hate? CANADIANS! With their perfect teeth, good looks and excellent pronunciation. Damn them! :: shakes fist at sky::
Coug_Hawk08 wrote:I thought people were typing it that way to show how it is spelled. Since so many people spell it incorrectly.
We should check if the misspellings are in any way racist too.
RockHawk wrote:Coug_Hawk08 wrote:I thought people were typing it that way to show how it is spelled. Since so many people spell it incorrectly.
We should check if the misspellings are in any way racist too.
Yes, of course we assume anyone using the term is racist. That's how we are around here.
LymonHawk wrote:Firstly; I've never liked the term African American, that's why I don't use it. (My decision.)
But why call attention to something when i think not many people knew?
KiwiHawk wrote:But why call attention to something when i think not many people knew?
At a guess I would say it's because a person or a few people were in fact using it in a derogatory sense, and in order to stop them from doing so the mods have to stop everyone from doing so.
The Radish wrote:A moment of your time about things like this.
I've been here since the start, when Aros and others most of you don't know were posting on a fanstop Seahawks site.
It was a constant dooney brook, swearing, fighting, racial, & sexual comments, personal threats. It was ok but got tiresome rather quickly.
After Todd started his own site which became Seahawks.net it wasn't much different. There were constant bickerings, arguments, trash talking etc. They added the smack shack and that helped a bit but still there was way to much personal bashing.
Low and behold several posters with kids that sat and talked with them when they were on this site began to complain and ask if we could hold stuff down and gradually over a couple of years we did. Some of the old guard had to be shown the door, or some like me toned it down. (most of you didn't know me in those days). While this only happened a very few times it made a dramatic difference. As the fighting bashing subsided our membership began to grow, and has continued to grow to this day.
So for those of you that are whining that "I want to" or "I didn't mean that", give it up. This is the world we live in and like or not we need to adjust because you're way in the miniority here. We're pretty pleasant about it, how many of you have received a PM from me either reminding you or letting you know that the F word is not allowed on any but Smack Shack or PWR Forums? Lots of you, have I ever been a jerk about it? Not unless you were. lol Trust me if there is a problem that catches Marks eye you would all rather hear from Matt, Steve, Judd, or me than hear from Mark.
The way for us to continue to grow is through a bit more political correctness than most sports fans can handle. But we aren't any sports fans, we are Seahawks & Seahawks.net fans, we are family. Do we all always agree no, do we all really care about each other? I'd like to think so.
As Sean Connery said in OUTLAND, "think about it".
AbsolutNET wrote:Obviously not everyone was ill intentioned when typing his name like that. But there's no doubt in my mind some were, which is enough to put an end to it.
RockHawk wrote:Frankly I’m shocked by those of you pushing back on this.
MontanaHawk05 wrote:Big honkin' deal.
RockHawk wrote:Frankly I’m shocked by those of you pushing back on this. I’ve stated many times before that I have a zero tolerance rule for anything that can even remotely be taken as racist, and this one is well over that line. Why in the hell would you be pushing back and defending something like this when you clearly have people verifying that it’s insensitive and can be taken as a racist tone?
I honestly just don’t understand. You can claim that you’re just trying to push back against unjust censorship all you want, but you are fighting to allow a potentially racist comment!!! And for what? Because you want to be able to say it to show how people are mispronouncing it?!? Are you kidding me?
Be argumentative all you want, but be smart enough to realize that by arguing on this one, you come across as defending bigotry and racial insensitivity, and I would generally distance myself from those things if it were me.
Oh well.
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