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in #censorship10 years ago (edited)

I may not agree with his posts but they do not deserve to be flagged. the people doing it are saying it is because of "hate speech". that is a bull shit reason to censor someone. even if you disagree with what he was posting, please help upvote his post to make it not invisible.
https://steemit.com/race/@nommo/naked-and-afraid-kill-niggers
talk shit to the person or whatever I got no problem with that but trying to censor him or get him to self censor is bullshit!

we have 3 flaggots in this group as we know of now.

@mada

@tyler-fletcher

@lunnettik

If you stand for free speech please try to help get this post not invisible.call him an ass if you want but censorship is wrong.

Yell at the flaggots too. they have no right to censor people because something hurts their fee fee's!

EDIT: Its not invisible any more. xD
@clevecross hopped in and made him not invisible.

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Sorry, unflagged.
This makes me think of how we're supposed to put NSFW warnings on graphic posts here, but not somebody shouting out too many hate words abruptly, when it's unclear at first.
And I wasn't trying to get it censored or make him invisible or his future on the site destroyed like other people seem to think should be done, that is way wrong. My problem was just with the post not being labelled and sounding so violent. I wasn't sure that particular post. Now that I read it with his poet voice, yes it's entirely different. Again, my bad on that.

Thank you for unflagging.
I do not think anyone should be flagged out of opinion. Even if it wasent a poetic piece i would still try to get rid of the flagging.
Just my opinion though. Thank you again for removing the flag and if anyone is ever flagging you let me know and ill try to get people to reverse it.

This one is on the borderline for me for a few reasons:

  1. There is not a good standard for when a flag SHOULD be used. Plagiarism, OK - hurt feewings? No. Open racist language? I don't know
  2. The problem with censoring "hate speech" is that so many people define "hate speech" as what offends them. Again there is not a good standard for what hate speech is.
  3. normally, using the word "nigger" is pretty clear hate speech (yes, even when black folks use it); but his was a poem, and poettry is not direct speech
  4. I don't get modern poetry, never have, never will. Whatever @nommo meant, I wasn't going to get it by the poem
  5. @nommo was clear in the comments that the poem was from a black man's perspective

Had the post been a call to action for killing black folk, a flag in that case would have been fine by my lights. If the post was about how "blacks were inferior" or some nonsense like that, I'm back on the borderline...yes that is hate speech, but it's also stupid speech; leave it open and let commenters rip it apart.

But this post? I didn't see it as a call to action, and other than the word itself, not clear in purpose. After @nommo explained, I understood the intent.

Keep up the anti-censorship work.
Life aint meant to be comfortable, and it usually aint

Maybe we should ask the devs to require a minimum number of flags to be used before a post is muted. It would cut down on both troll and sjw abuse.

And let's not use the sjw label, as it is wrong on all 3 counts. instead, we should refer to them as Fainting Couch Cows

I'm fucking dying over fainting couch cows!

I been trying to get folks to use that for a year, and no one bites lol

I will even stand by hate speech.
The people could just leave comments calling him an ass or whatever if they wanted. To try to silence him is worse then anything he could possibly say imo.
Thanx for the great comment. xD

I can understand why people that aint black themselves get worked up over the term. But in the end, you are right. Good ideas are traded in free speech only, and bad ideas are exposed only with free speech.

Getting me to comment aint the problem, getting me to shut up is!

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