It's the social media Times where people are comfortable at insulting people from behind a keyboard and it's acceptable.
Disagree. It's only acceptable to the one doing the insulting. Being allowed to behave like that on the internet is NOT an excuse or justification for it.
Or conversely, people being called out for their appalling attitudes to other human beings and then throwing the dummy out when they don't like to be portrayed as such.
If this refers to the Bibby Stockholm thread, then if anything I said to anybody on there is worthy of me being removed from the forum then that’s probably a good thing - as if I’m not allowed to call out blatant bigotry which ignores anything responded which disproves the vile stuff spouted, then I’d perhaps be better off not posting. I stand by every word I said. I’ll leave the rest to the admins as I’m 100% comfortable about where right and wrong lies on that particular issue.
I was being a bolshy lovely person last week & you rightly called me out on it.. Gotta love a right wing snowflake though, bless..
Gally should have given more details in my OP.. (and this answers your question Troff (have never seen anything objectionable in any of your posts.) My concern was about a message on the 'Marcus Stewart' thread not the Bibby Stockholm where a poster wished another poster to have MND - and it got two likes - Red Helen and Kirky Boy! We all come to this forum from our own specific perspective - 1) My Czech born grandmother came as a refugee in 1945 to the UK - this is a major factor why I support the migrants coming here....and I question those who object to this. However I wouldn't go as far as to call them racist bellends because once you get personal you lose the opportunity to make your case to challenge them. 2) Spent most of yesterday giving a friend respite care as her partner has MND - absolutely vile disease - partner keeps conveying her wish for someone to dis-connect her breathing tube ....something she can't do herself. To wish MND on anyone is abhorrent.
How does respite work mate? Do you look after the patient whilst the relative gets rest. If the person is wanting to be assisted in suicide are you qualified to be doing this. Asking out of concern.
If someone is being racist, then they're being a racist bellend. Especially after every effort was made to explain to them and to try to educate them. After about 8 pages of repetition, requests for evidence and a whole load of patience, I think you heard a collective sigh as people gave up.
I think that the reference in the Marcus Stewart thread was asking why it couldn't be Marcus Maddison (being the "**** in the earlier thread") rather than wishing it on a poster on here. It's not in great taste, but I didn't read it as being directed at a poster on here.
That’s how I read it too. I might be wrong though. I would agree that people shouldn’t wish anything like that on anyone else though, regardless who it was aimed at.
Did I? Well I don’t recall the particular incident but you are normally pretty reasoned so if I did feel the need to call you out I’ll agree I was probably right In all seriousness, we all get stuff wrong at times no matter how reasonable or unreasonable we like to think we are. I posted summat about Jack Aitchison having our pants down over us letting him go to Scotland, but then someone pointed out they’d heard his dad had been ill which is why he’d gone back and had since passed away, making his move back south make more sense. Puts a different perspective on it. I was probably wrong there.
It appears your thread was accosted by some others referring to the Bibby Stockholm one then Taff, and I agree that what you have pointed out is absolutely abhorrent.
The OP clearly isn't referring to you as you didn't make any 'personal attack' on anyone, so I don't really understand the defensiveness. As for @red-Taff there is an irony in them saying not to get personal as it shuts down the opportunity to enter into an exchange of ideas, while simultaneously naming 2 people who have liked a comment on MND, calling them out personally without knowing the full extent of their 'like'. This is the problem with interactions on a forum. I also agree @lk311 - surely a private DM to Gally would have been more appropriate than all this playing out all the time. The dust has clearly settled on our 7-0 win at the weekend
I'm glad he posted as it drew my attention to the other thread and I learnt a bit more about MND than I did before.
