Any Forum rules against racism or racist terms ? (official or unofficial)

[friends1980]

Racism is allowed, it's part of freedom of expression.

It's dumb anyway on a forum, I couldn't care less about your color or race. There's no KYC, you can be any color you want online.

Now that is trying to push the freedom of expression. I do not think that it is part, maybe a banter or two but a blatant comment pointed at a race is not freedom of expression. If we allow racism, I think we abandon people that are targeted by these racial slurs, so if we can do our part of prohibiting racist comments, I think that we are taking a good step forward.

The color I want is blue, daba dee daba da.

Why the hell would legal constitutional protection be necessary if it's only meant for people who are saying things everybody agrees with anyway??

And by the way, this thread is a discussion about forum rules, not a discussion about racism and freedom of expression - so these remarks are off-topic anyway.

[The Sceptical Chymist]

I was just called racist on reddit for pointing out that Microsoft invented typescript so they didn't have to train Indian programmers.

Yeah well, that's the newest, strongest insult you can call someone these days, given all the anti-racist sentiment that abounds.  The term "racist" seems to have lost its meaning, and I don't think a lot of the younger generation even knows what true racism is--looking at the protests in the US regarding police shooting blacks, some of the statements made by the protesters make me think that they have an absolute lack of knowledge of history and how much race relations have improved in the past 100 years or so.

Why the hell would legal constitutional protection be necessary if it's only meant for people who are saying things everybody agrees with anyway??

That's the point most people just don't get.  The type of speech that needs to be protected is that which will probably offend you, or that the majority of people might disagree with.  And if you want freedom to say what you want, you have to allow people to express racist opinions.  That doesn't mean those opinions can't go unchallenged, but not allowing them would be a step in the wrong direction.

[mindrust]

Racism is a very broad subject.

Depending on how and from where you look at it, anything or nothing could be considered "racist".

I haven't seen any forum rules against racism yet but still it is probably a good idea you don't overdo it.

Just because there is no rules about something doesn't mean they can't ban you for no reason.

Even If you don't get banned, would you want to look like a freak? You can if that's what you want.