Why was this closed? http://atrl.net/?t=627189

Legit there was only like 1 troll there, except from that everyone was having a calm civilized talk

Probably done on purpose but at the "hardcore fisting" tab

Never change ATRL

Bye bye Goosey! You are one of the worst members I've personally come across. You are self-conceited in your sexuality and country, and the post you made in the animal hunting thread was vile. Byeeeeee!!

I feel like I'm constantly coming into this thread to complain about warning points I've received I'm sorry to the mods who constantly have to read what I have to say. I'll try and keep it short. It's just that I try really hard to avoid points and then still manage to get them when I don't even think I'm saying anything wrong.

I just got two points from the "Immigrant gets spit in the face by Anti-immigrant protester" thread. The first point I got for disruptive for saying:

Yesterday a video came out of a racist woman on a train, calling an Asian girl a "gook" and making fun of her eye shapes. Whenever a racist video comes out in Australia, it makes me feel ashamed and embarrassed to be Australian. Consequently when I see "Immigrant gets spit in the face" my first thought was "please don't be Australian" - so I wrote that. I hardly see how that disrupted the conversation. I don't see how that's worth a point

Secondly I got a point for insensitive for this:

This video was about Mexican singer Lupillo Rivera getting spat on for defending the worker's rights of Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans. This was in the middle of the protests about the 136 Mexican children who were being transported from Texas to California, after crossing the border, by foot, because the detention centre they were at in Texas was overcrowded.

Every country's Immigration patterns are different. Every country's immigration patterns come down to geography. Does America have a lot of Indonesian immigrants coming there by boat? No. Because it's geographically impossible to travel from Indonesia to America in a small fishing boat. That's an immigration issue faced by Australia because we're geographically closer to Indonesia. Does Australia have Mexican people coming here by foot? No. Because that's geographically impossible. You know where else it's also geographically impossible to walk to? Europe from Mexico. So when RomanNavy asked "why don't they just come here to Europe?" all I was saying was, because they can't just walk there. He said "when you can go to Europe" but the point is, they can't just go to Europe. That's not a possibility. Migration patterns won't allow it because plane tickets are so expensive and require passports and visas. They're going to America for a better life. Something I fully support. I'm pro-immigration. I don't understand how what I said was insensitive. It's a factual statement. You can't walk to Europe from Mexico. And I understand you might say "the offence was in implying all immigrants are Mexican" but this video was ABOUT Mexican immigrants amid the current Mexican Immigration Protests going on in the U.S.


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I know i said I'd keep it short. Sorry I'm just trying really hard to avoid points, and there's been people writing blogs and saying stuff in blogs about "I hate Rihinvention" so I know people are out to get me for any little thing they can, and I think that's sad. I feel like I'm walking on egg-shells.

Anyway, you can only submit one help request at a time, so I thought I'd come here

I'm mexican and that post by Rihinvention isn't offensive at all.

Thanks

Maybe I should have worded it differently...and said "because you can't walk to Europe from Mexico" instead of saying "Because Mexicans can't walk to Europe." That sounds a bit more vitriolic and discriminatory because I'm saying a certain group of people (race/nationality) can't do something. But, no race/nationality could do that. You cannot walk from Mexico to Europe. I don't understand how saying that is insensitive.

But you weren't shady or anything. Obviously the illegal mexicans in the US got there by foot. The taco jokes are far more offensive and people post those everyday and get no WPs

We cannot monitor every single posts users make on the daily basis, if you see something that should be warned report it.

OK, moderator.

Well, I mean... yes but stop.

How can I help someone get their own smiley?!

We will be considering smilies at the time of the update; you can submit one here now or, preferably, wait until more information is made available closer to the update.

Great. I will wait until the update! Thanks!

Screaming at this perfect Retro impersonation.

Fake mods are the worst though zzz

Hmm..interesting

It's not perfect; I would have used a pretentious semicolon.