Racism

[76561198804307331]

I play your game and one player called me a buzzard. Buzzard in Brazilian is something close to monkey, black man... Can you solve this? I heard he has been banned for racism before and this can not go unpunished. Thank you.
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Server Beelzemon

[Mao Zedong]

Originally posted by leu.anibal:

I play your game and one player called me a buzzard. Buzzard in Brazilian is something close to monkey, black man... Can you solve this? I heard he has been banned for racism before and this can not go unpunished. Thank you.
https://prnt.sc/jrvdhs
Server Beelzemon

There is an amazing feature where you can block someone! Have you tried that?

[Odawari]

Yeah dude, just block him. Besides in a game such as GDMO there is bound to be problems such as that, so expect it to be a common thing.

[76561198804307331]

I know and did this but he can not offend people like that, and it is not the first time, game has to have more rigid rules.

[Mao Zedong]

Originally posted by Galik1:

I know and did this but he can not offend people like that, and it is not the first time, game has to have more rigid rules.

Idk man, I support freedom of speech

[Sharkai]

Originally posted by 123:

Originally posted by Galik1:

I know and did this but he can not offend people like that, and it is not the first time, game has to have more rigid rules.

Idk man, I support freedom of speech

Can I insult you for several things now? Y'know because 'freedom of speech'. I already figured the answer is no.
This community is extremely toxic and this behaviour only promotes it. According to ToS causing 'discomfort' to someone can get you a 3 day ban. If you value being 'allowed' to be an uncultured savage and insult someone because hurrdurr freedom of speech enough to accept a ban then go ahead, do it.

[Dux]

A buzzard isn't even a mammal let alone anything close to a monkey. It's a bird. In your language it'd translate to 'Urubu' (in essence an Abutre), which quite frankly isn't viewed as a proper insult.
Even if it were an extreme case you could still block the person, but this 'insult' is something considered pretty tame as per every single standard out there.

[Sharkai]

Originally posted by Duchess:

A buzzard isn't even a mammal let alone anything close to a monkey. It's a bird. In your language it'd translate to 'Urubu' (in essence an Abutre), which quite frankly isn't viewed as a proper insult.
Even if it were an extreme case you could still block the person, but this 'insult' is something considered pretty tame as per every single standard out there.

Yep, you're right. Most buzzards are actually pretty cool birds if you ask me. However, this guy with his freedom of speech nonsense to justify insulting annoyed me more and we all know how special brazilians are.

[Dux]

Originally posted by Sharkai:

Originally posted by Duchess:

A buzzard isn't even a mammal let alone anything close to a monkey. It's a bird. In your language it'd translate to 'Urubu' (in essence an Abutre), which quite frankly isn't viewed as a proper insult.
Even if it were an extreme case you could still block the person, but this 'insult' is something considered pretty tame as per every single standard out there.

Yep, you're right. Most buzzards are actually pretty cool birds if you ask me. However, this guy with his freedom of speech nonsense to justify insulting annoyed me more and we all know how special brazilians are.

I completely agree with your stance there, I'm just pointing out to stay on topic that the insult being reported hardly warrants a warning let a lot a harsher punishment.
It's more a waste of the staff's time than anything else. If it had been any sort of intolerant, racist or type of derogatory language I'd be all in support of action being taken; but in this specific case it's more a matter of personal interpretation than anything else.
He may take offense to being called a buzzard, but I feel it wouldn't be disimilar to me taking offense to being called a mongoose, both of which are beyond silly. Seems like a very arbitrary thing to be offended about.
And honestly, I can't figure out what part of it is meant to be racist.

[Mao Zedong]

Originally posted by Sharkai:

Originally posted by 123:

Idk man, I support freedom of speech

Can I insult you for several things now? Y'know because 'freedom of speech'. I already figured the answer is no.
This community is extremely toxic and this behaviour only promotes it. According to ToS causing 'discomfort' to someone can get you a 3 day ban. If you value being 'allowed' to be an uncultured savage and insult someone because hurrdurr freedom of speech enough to accept a ban then go ahead, do it.

Yes, go ahead and insult me, you have the right to do so, and I can't take that away. If you were to insult in game, then I will just simply block you.

[badgermom]

Originally posted by Sharkai:

Originally posted by 123:

Idk man, I support freedom of speech

Can I insult you for several things now? Y'know because 'freedom of speech'. I already figured the answer is no.
This community is extremely toxic and this behaviour only promotes it. According to ToS causing 'discomfort' to someone can get you a 3 day ban. If you value being 'allowed' to be an uncultured savage and insult someone because hurrdurr freedom of speech enough to accept a ban then go ahead, do it.

Savage is a racial slur, please excuse and educate yourself.

If being uncultured is a bad thing maybe you need to look inwardly at your own prejudices against uncolonised countries.

"Uncultured savage," is akin to calling him a Native American or an Australian Aboriginal.

Funny how that works hmm.

Yes, you have the right to call anyone anything, but that does not make you free from social consequence.

What can and can't be considered, "discomfoting" ...? That's the issue, and should rules really be so vague? You never know what will set someone off. Quick bants between two buds might be super hurtful to an onlooker. Just keep to party chat, and block. Easy solution. If you want to use general chat then you've gotta accept that you might see ♥♥♥♥ you don't like. Cultural norms are different everywhere. aka being called buzzard might be offensive, so block the person that did it. Obscure words shouldn't be on some list like they are on Neopets, it's just restrictive and alienates people looking to be social.

I just started playing and an anti-bullying PSA flashed on my screen, that's what I'd call coddling. Hoy.

[Sharkai]

See the problem with that is that you yourself are being a racist for seeing racism in everything. Furthermore, hate speech is not protected by freedom of speech. The problem with you people from the land of the free is that you get raised with this freedom of speech nonsense except you all get it wrong and think it just means you can be a douche and ignore other people.

A savage is not a racial slur. It does have a racist meaning in the language per definition because americans called native americans savages in the past but that is not relevant. There are a lot of definitions for the word savage in the english language. Furthermore calling a person who thinks he can just insult people because he's protected by a law he does not properly understand a savage does not make it a racial slur. I am not referring to indians or aboriginals with this.

Please get your fake PC social justice warrior nonsense out of here.

[Dux]

Originally posted by ANIMAE:

"Uncultured savage," is akin to calling him a Native American or an Australian Aboriginal

That was ten times more racist and insulting than everything I've ever seen Sharkai post in these forums added together.
He gave no special meaning to the word savage other than it's most basic meaning; while you're making a comparison that essentially suggests you consider these two civilized peoples "uncultured savages". Something they're not, and have never been (at least not more than the "original" whites).
In fact, Native Americans may have not been as technologically advanced as the European whites, but they were the exact opposite of savages. Most tribes with a few exceptions valued human lives far more. It was never a habit of Native American tribes to exterminate other tribes, which they had a preference for defeating and then assimilating with the least amount of deaths possible.
There are records of fights between tribes that ended with truces after a single warrior of one of the tribes died, which was seen as a tragedy and something to mourn deeply. I would hardly call these people "savage", and uncultured is also something I'd not associate with them as they did in fact have a culture and laws, in many aspects more advanced than the European whites.

I do believe "uncultured savages" refers to people who have no laws, no hierarchy and absolutely no culture. These don't apply to Native Americans nor Aussie Aboriginals.

[Mao Zedong]

Originally posted by Sharkai:

See the problem with that is that you yourself are being a racist for seeing racism in everything. Furthermore, hate speech is not protected by freedom of speech. The problem with you people from the land of the free is that you get raised with this freedom of speech nonsense except you all get it wrong and think it just means you can be a douche and ignore other people.

A savage is not a racial slur. It does have a racist meaning in the language per definition because americans called native americans savages in the past but that is not relevant. There are a lot of definitions for the word savage in the english language. Furthermore calling a person who thinks he can just insult people because he's protected by a law he does not properly understand a savage does not make it a racial slur. I am not referring to indians or aboriginals with this.

Please get your fake PC social justice warrior nonsense out of here.

Why is it so hard to just block someone?

[GM_HellKat]

Just block them. Why nowadays everyone wants someone banned for the littlest things like saying you're a noob or something, "BAN THEM! THEY CALLED ME NOOB!"