There is nothing wrong with racism, yeah it's ideology just as stupid as believing in omnipresent and powerful entity who don't use his power to protect his followers - but at least racism is based on some evidence (but got most things wrongs).
And racists in game just insult other people, just like non-racists.
And that's not even the main problem with the idiotic "no racism" rule.
'Racism' as a word has a trillion different meanings which constantly change. In 1700, a racist was one who wanted to kill everyone who didn't look like him. A racist today might be a guy saying "dem nigs runin muh neighbour" or, if we are to believe the radical definition, anyone who even ACKNOWLEDGES the very concept of race.
So which one to follow? chadz says "common sense" but common sense is not common at all. What if someone finds it "common sense" to ban me for racism if I tell him that different races have different median IQ's? What if someone finds it "common sense" to ban me for racism if I say races even
exist? Under a fairly common definition, that would be, in fact, racist!
To add to the whole irony of this completely unnecessary rule, crpg is very well equiped with tools you can use to ignore people you don't like. Both here in the forums AND in-game. Thus if you find what somebody else is saying crude, you can always ignore him. That we support a mentality that you are allowed to
silence people that disagree with you is, in my opinion, a terrible thing.
If something needs to be done, that would be make clear how you can ignore people in-game. And of course, remove that silly rule.
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