I'm currently appealing the suspension - and I was already appealing the adminstration action of the same administrator for marking me for a violation of Code of Conduct 1.8, which says:
Do not engage in malicious speech.
This includes bigotry and disparaging remarks or content about anyone's race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, etc. This does not apply to fictional works.
In other words...
Respect diversity. Do not discriminate based on other people's differences. This does not apply within the scope of fictional works as part of a narrative.
The comments?
"Nazis are mentally deranged. They're Nazis. They fly the flag, they do the salute, the espouse the philosophy; a rhetoric of exclusion, intolerance, hatred, and genocide."
and
"I'm reminded of the comic where a guy, once being told to fuck off for saying something retarded, says "Jokes on him, I was only pretending."
So either they're actual Nazis, or just acting like them and pretending to hold those opinions in an attempt to get a rise out of people. There's no functional difference at that point, because both those who legitimately hold those values and those who only pretend to are both still acting and speaking upon those values."
I don't see how, unless I was speaking of a specific person (I was not, not even in context), these could be a violation of the Code of Conduct.
I'm currently appealing the suspension - and I was already appealing the adminstration action of the same administrator for marking me for a violation of Code of Conduct 1.8, which says:
Do not engage in malicious speech.
This includes bigotry and disparaging remarks or content about anyone's race, ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, etc. This does not apply to fictional works.
In other words...
Respect diversity. Do not discriminate based on other people's differences. This does not apply within the scope of fictional works as part of a narrative.
The comments?
"Nazis are mentally deranged. They're Nazis. They fly the flag, they do the salute, the espouse the philosophy; a rhetoric of exclusion, intolerance, hatred, and genocide."
and
"I'm reminded of the comic where a guy, once being told to fuck off for saying something retarded, says "Jokes on him, I was only pretending."
So either they're actual Nazis, or just acting like them and pretending to hold those opinions in an attempt to get a rise out of people. There's no functional difference at that point, because both those who legitimately hold those values and those who only pretend to are both still acting and speaking upon those values."
I don't see how, unless I was speaking of a specific person (I was not, not even in context), these could be a violation of the Code of Conduct.
I suspect there's just an out of control admin.