Does this forum create or perpetuate racism?
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This forum is not about race it is a bout nationality and the laws of this nation being upheld or trampled on.
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Sure does, your opinion is being heard.  Why else would people's questions and answers keep getting deleted? This section of y/a is becoming a mini civil rights movement. People post, others delete them because they don't like the question or answer because it doesn't agree with their thinking. It's freedom of speech trying to be strangled by a small slice of small minded people. It appears bigotry is alive and well in this section. Does deleting people's remarks really matter? Other than losing points, it won't stop me from responding to outrageous questions filled with either lies, half-truths, or completely inaccurate statements.
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PANCHITA linda, name calling is not a powerful tool. Knowledge and good argumentative statements are for the wise. The more we use the word racist, the more the actual situation converts itself into a racist issue and not the original basis for solving a problem.  I am ignoring the racist variable altogether when formulating my opinion because this is an economic issue. Be objective when standing up for a cause. Subjectivity is cause for strife.
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I can't believe how many people bring up racial issues on this forum. No one cares. the ones who do care are usally the racists. Let it go and quit segregating.
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I believe that such people just use this forum to vent their own frustrations and inadequacies.\n\nI think this forum particularly attracts people whose minds are filled with hate, and who better to take it out on than those whose minds are not.\n\nI ignore them and feel sorry for them.\n\nThere is no law against selfdemeaning, so let them get on with it.
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Anyone is entitled to their opinion,racist or not. Just don't expect everyone to agree. People on here love to jump on the racist bandwagon and a lot simply don't read the question before putting their two pence worth in.
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No there are some quite disgusting and racist questions that get on here.
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yes i agree with you. i feel that racism is like a swinging pendulum. it will never stop in the middle so we can all have peace.
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I've gotten that same notice for simply asking for more information in order to be able to give a better reply. \n\nThe Yahoo site monitors must have some kind of really bizarre double standards for what's acceptable and what isn't. I wish they'd get their acts together and delete some of the racist garbage "questions," which are clearly meant as slurs. \n\nInstead, they delete innocuous questions and send out violation notices for things that are well within their own guidelines. It may be completely innocent on their parts, but it sure makes them look like closet racists and bigots.
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They tend to jump onto the Forum and complain. It's interesting to see the responses they get from the Y!A team and some of the more responsible members of the community. \n\n:)
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Chatty in what sense? \n\nThis isn't really a forum for conversation which would require numerous feedback sessions between you and those that answer. You ask, we answer, you pick best answer and state your claim as to why.\n\nChatty I would imagine would be left to the live forms such as chat rooms.\n\nI'm not sure why you were violated but was just presenting my argument based on what I think the Yahoo gods are using as reasons.
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by addressing it directly ;  you don't need to be harsh but you do need to state that you consider the comments as veiled racism and that it will not be tolerated.  ignoring it consistently just invites repeated offenses.  most don't realize that others may consider something offensive.  its important to speak up and say" by the way i think that's a racist question/comment/statement etc"  if the response is that it's not meant that way then let them know it is offensive and should not be stated.
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Oh yes, most definitely.  I believe they use these forums to preach their propaganda.  Because lets face it, no one really knows who or where we are.   We just work on faith that others here are honest.  But if you notice how questions here are formulated and repetitively asked, I have no doubt this is used as a sounding board.
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Not in my opinion - the number of blatantly racist, anti-Islamic comments that are allowed on Yahoo Answers would clearly suggest that Yahoo operates a very open, tolerant policy.
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No problem whatsoever.  I agree with your premise and I agree with your question.  It is my understanding that, if this forum belongs to anyone, then it belongs to everyone.  It has an important element missing in many a chat room; that being a healthy discussion involving divergent opinions.  Who says there is only one correct answer?
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I agree with you.  These forums are misused by people who just because they dont like someones answer or question, its reported.  And I think Yahoo should check over the reports more carefully before just removing the contents without just cause.\n\nI also dont think people should be allowed to go through other peoples questions and answers that have already been resolved from weeks ago, and report them to be spiteful,  thats just plain immature and petty, when people do that.
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I have just read your link and up to a point I do agree with you. \n\nIt isn't just about the black community though it is. I think it is just fashion in general. There are so many people wanting to look the part but you should never judge a person by the way they dress!\n\nAs for the posting above, we have to be careful what we say because people do get offended.  I get constantly offended when I read people telling me how wonderful God is, or I will go to hell if I don't believe etc, but they never seem to stop that do they!!\nI think all this political correctness has taken away our freedom of speech. It makes me laugh though that if you are black and you call a 'brother' the N word that is acceptable, but if I was to call someone by that name I would get told off and called racist. It is either right or wrong. There should not be rules for one culture and not for another. That is another form of segregation... them and us!!\n\nThere are nice ways and nasty ways of asking a question or placing a statement but there is always someone you will offend. There are many questions I would love to ask about the black culture and the asian cultures etc. all are totally innocent but I am scared to ask incase people don't like the way I have asked it and I get called a racist.\n\nThe whole world has gone crazy and it does annoy me!