I don't think people should be banned for necessarily just thinking, or even stating, that they have issues with people of other races or in the LGBT community. For one thing, if we did that latter, we'd pretty much be banning the big faces of the RMB community, because on several occasions they've done the generically conservative move of 'man what's with all these trans people, what's with these pronouns, there's only two genders, all of that is bullshit'. For which warnings have been issued, and which they've since respected - so it would be kind of unethical for us to change from 'look, don't be a dick and say that kind of shit' to 'you say it, you're out'.
But for another thing - I'm not the first to say, and I probably won't be the last, that fundamentally, free speech eventually defeats most -isms, provided the people who think in those -isms bother to listen to you in the first place. It's one thing if it's a one-sided troll commentary loudly screeching the same nonsense talking points over and over again because he's trying to get a rise out of you - in that case, ban that dude forever. But it's another if it's an actual meaningful
dialogue, because then the both of you are getting something out of it. But I think it
does have to be a dialogue, because too often progressives approach these things in exactly the same way I just criticized - loudly screeching the same talking points without any regard for what the other person is saying - because there's a fundamental assumption that not only is the progressive viewpoint the
right way to think, it is the only way people
should be thinking and anything else is incomprehensibly regressive. Understanding the other person's perspective, through the process of talking to them, is the only way you can convince them there might be something to what you're saying - because otherwise they're just gonna get frustrated with you cause you're just talking past them.
wow that got way off track from the whole thing about banning but tl;dr not unless they're being actively trolling fucks
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Okay sorry I just find that incredibly hard to believe since the vast majority of Singaporeans are
incredibly rah-rah about all things Japan; food (there's like 5 Japanese restaurants in every mall, to say nothing of how Japanese food fads come and go like lightning - is ten-don still the new hotness?), anime, culture, vacations to Japan, people learning the language - seems that people want to be Japanese a lot more than they want to be Chinese. Which - now, if you said the same thing about mainland Chinese (colloquially, 'ah tiong'), oh, shit, in a
heartbeat, but I suppose that wouldn't constitute racism since the majority of Singaporeans are Chinese. Oh, or Malays, but the
institutional racism there has more to do with issues of national security, and the generic, public racism is less actual racism and more to do with classism (which Singapore's greatest problems lie with) and increasing public distrust for Islam, mostly because Islamism seems to be intensifying all throughout the region (viz. all the nonsense in Malaysia; Indonesia; the Marawi crisis with the whole Moro thing in the first place...)