Flamebaiting - AKA, Incitement to Racial Hatred
Questers
20-02-2006, 17:54
Source (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10459323&postcount=173)
As a semi-immigrant myself, I feel that these statements made by someone who has no grasp of the world are deeply insulting to me and anyone else that lives in Britain but was not born there - or in fact, any country.
Hell in America
21-02-2006, 15:50
Well, someone asked him a question on how he felt, and he explained it. And how is it any diffrent then people attacking others for political views?
Imperiux
21-02-2006, 16:49
Sorry if I offended you but those are my views.
Seathorn
21-02-2006, 16:52
So ugly isn't flamebaiting?
That's not a view, that's an insult.
Imperiux
21-02-2006, 16:53
Okay. Mis-interpreted joke.
Scolopendra
21-02-2006, 17:00
So ugly isn't flamebaiting?
Exactly. People asked if he thought immigrants were a problem; he said yes. They asked for why, he replied. Mere opinion is not flamebait, especially when it's asked for (i.e. "what is your opinion on this?").
You are free to debate things you find disagreeable, but merely finding them offensive is not grounds to call flamebait. Now, if Imp had, out of the blue, said that all immigrants were health tourists or responsible for bird flu that would be something different. While there are perhaps more polite or at least sociable ways for him to put it ("My personal concerns with immigration are...") bluntness is a time-honored tradition here so it wouldn't be fair to punish one person for it and not another.
Seathorn
21-02-2006, 17:14
Exactly. People asked if he thought immigrants were a problem; he said yes. They asked for why, he replied. Mere opinion is not flamebait, especially when it's asked for (i.e. "what is your opinion on this?").
You are free to debate things you find disagreeable, but merely finding them offensive is not grounds to call flamebait. Now, if Imp had, out of the blue, said that all immigrants were health tourists or responsible for bird flu that would be something different. While there are perhaps more polite or at least sociable ways for him to put it ("My personal concerns with immigration are...") bluntness is a time-honored tradition here so it wouldn't be fair to punish one person for it and not another.
Ah, alright. Wasn't sure there :p but now I know.