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This is just a quick conversation on the handing out of punishments to people who are openly Islamophobic.
Whilst I was still playing on the server, and active in the community I had noticed there were numerous incidents where someone would be Islamophobic, or make a hatred comment towards an individual and get virtually no punishment/very little.
Recently I came across a ban apology thread which is here and it got me thinking, when someone is homophobic or racist they get far worse punishments, however, Islamophobic comments appear to warrant very little in regards to punishment length. To reiterate, steelo is a great person and by no means an issue but the general view needs to change within the community to deter this from becoming an "acceptable norm".
To further on from this, here is some notable information:
A couple of weeks ago I joined the server, and when I was playing I was told by a user that one of our prophets was a pedophile, and he liked to touch children which is abhorrent in nature, but by all figures Islamophobic. When I approach a staff member about this, I was told "Okay ngl, idk if blasphemy is really something we enforce... we don't do it for any other religion, I don't see why we'd enforce that under 1.2".
I will not be naming the staff member because I do not think they were in the wrong per se, however, I think there needs to be a clear message from community management that this is not to be tolerated, and that as a community we do not accept such hatred.
If we look at the bans page, we can identify numerous cases (of course, each is their own however there appears to be somewhat of a consistent theme and that is homophobic and racist comments are not permitted, but Islamophobic comments are tolerated to an extent)
Such cases are:
Some may say there were additional circumstances leading to a higher ban, or that an apology may have made it a lesser ban. Maybe there are more circumstances, maybe the apology was genuine but the act was still committed and from what it appears, there is a disproportionate level of punishment given to the differing forms of discrimination. These images were taken from the first five pages, there will be more but the overall message is clear: there needs to be some form of community wide acceptance that there is no acceptance of this attitude or behaviour, and it should not be taken lightly.
Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.
Whilst I was still playing on the server, and active in the community I had noticed there were numerous incidents where someone would be Islamophobic, or make a hatred comment towards an individual and get virtually no punishment/very little.
Recently I came across a ban apology thread which is here and it got me thinking, when someone is homophobic or racist they get far worse punishments, however, Islamophobic comments appear to warrant very little in regards to punishment length. To reiterate, steelo is a great person and by no means an issue but the general view needs to change within the community to deter this from becoming an "acceptable norm".
To further on from this, here is some notable information:
A couple of weeks ago I joined the server, and when I was playing I was told by a user that one of our prophets was a pedophile, and he liked to touch children which is abhorrent in nature, but by all figures Islamophobic. When I approach a staff member about this, I was told "Okay ngl, idk if blasphemy is really something we enforce... we don't do it for any other religion, I don't see why we'd enforce that under 1.2".
I will not be naming the staff member because I do not think they were in the wrong per se, however, I think there needs to be a clear message from community management that this is not to be tolerated, and that as a community we do not accept such hatred.
If we look at the bans page, we can identify numerous cases (of course, each is their own however there appears to be somewhat of a consistent theme and that is homophobic and racist comments are not permitted, but Islamophobic comments are tolerated to an extent)
Such cases are:
Some may say there were additional circumstances leading to a higher ban, or that an apology may have made it a lesser ban. Maybe there are more circumstances, maybe the apology was genuine but the act was still committed and from what it appears, there is a disproportionate level of punishment given to the differing forms of discrimination. These images were taken from the first five pages, there will be more but the overall message is clear: there needs to be some form of community wide acceptance that there is no acceptance of this attitude or behaviour, and it should not be taken lightly.
Thanks for coming to my TEDTalk.
