I’m not interested in continuing to support a site that lets right wing trolls post bullshit repeatedly. So long and thanks for all the fish.

Thank you. I’ve made no secret that I’m Jewish, and my wife is an ethnic minority. We are exactly the people that fascists target. I’m very sensitive to issues regarding minorities. Time and again, right wing/conservative trolls have been able to camp out in the politics forum and spew hateful bile and when people react negatively, it’s the people reacting who get in trouble.

Creekdipper compared homosexuality to bestiality for years. He even advocated for a “separate but equal” system to keep homosexuals away from Christian business owners. He spent years antagonizing people over and over with no significant repercussions until finally he did something to push things over the line. People complained for years, nothing was done. He was able to say the most hurtful and hateful things in that time.

Grundle was allowed to blanket repost right wing blogs to his heart’s content. Most of the articles grossly misrepresented the situations or arguments being presented. He never showed any remorse or inclination to change his behavior, no matter how often he was chastised or suspended. The admins even let him come back and post under a second account for a while for some reason. His posts routinely contained racist, sexist, and Islamophobic content. He made jokes and posted memes about Heather Heyer’s death at the hands of a neo-Nazi. Only recently was he exiled.

DVD Polizei has been a Trump supporter since day one. He has actively downplayed any idea that Trump is a white supremacist. He has defended Proud Boys, the very people who would beat me and my wife in the streets just for being who we are. And yet I get scolded for pointing out that he defends fascists and routinely trolls the forum.

And those are just the most visible right wing trolls. I don’t want an echo chamber, despite what some people may think, but when our president is an open white supremacist and tacitly supports hate groups, things are no longer business as usual. And when we have people posting on this forum who actively support Trump for this behavior, and actively support the hate groups he has popularized, that’s where we should be drawing a fucking line. And if the mods and admins won’t do it, then I have no interest in continuing to be associated with this site. Continuing to platform fascists or fascists sympathizers represents a legitimate danger for some of the people who post here. People can be doxxed. I’ve met people from here in real life. I’m not comfortable with that anymore given how apathetic the mods have been to these issues.

This is why I’m not interested in political exile. Either DVD Talk takes a stance against fascists and the people who defend them, or they can ban me.

Oh, yeah. We could have a blast posting pornhub links and stuff.

And I know, shame on me for taking the bait, but again, when I see someone defending Proud Boys, I’m not going to be quiet about it.

And yeah, the AOC whore comment was completely inexcusable. I think I even reported that one but here he remains, continuing to spew his alt-right garbage.

My issue here isn’t just with DVD P. It’s with the extremely lax attitude the mods and admins have toward members who post things that are overtly bigoted or clear distortions. If I wanted that shit I’d go read the comments section of a Breitbart article.