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Saying that gays are subhuman is clearly thoughtless. However, as far as I can tell, his point was initially that BA people / "liberals" operate primarily on emotion rather than critical thought. He made a very unpopular statement, and the reactions that it has drawn seem to prove his initial point.
I guess that I disagree that his statements "require action." It just seems like an overreaction driven by a feeling of being offended. Stick him on ignore, problem solved on this site. You can't stop bigots from existing, and making a big fuss over their inane ramblings only serves to empower them in the end.
This thread probably belongs in the politics section at this point!
I agree with bmwman91. Just put the guy on ignore if you don't like him. I even extended ignore to ignore threads as well as comments.
And Patrick, your question about whether he insulted anyone personally strikes me as somewhat redundant. If you have any gay contributors on this site, then he clearly did insult them personally.
Maybe they feel insulted, but I don't think he was directing his comment at anyone in particular on the forum.
Saying that gays are subhuman is clearly thoughtless. However, as far as I can tell, his point was initially that BA people / "liberals" operate primarily on emotion rather than critical thought. He made a very unpopular statement, and the reactions that it has drawn seem to prove his initial point.
No, that comment about feel/think came after his homophobic posts and the responses to them.
The problem was that:
a) he called people with a different sexual preference to his own subhuman.
b) he then castigates others who don't appreciate his views for 'feeling' rather than 'thinking' as if his bigoted nonsense was the consequence of deep thought whereas our response was based simply on feelings.
His comments are bloody ridiculous and to be honest, your comments haven't exactly reflected what has been going on.
I agree with bmwman91. Just put the guy on ignore if you don't like him. I even extended ignore to ignore threads as well as comments.
And Patrick, your question about whether he insulted anyone personally strikes me as somewhat redundant. If you have any gay contributors on this site, then he clearly did insult them personally.
Maybe they feel insulted, but I don't think he was directing his comment at anyone in particular on the forum.
Not anyone in particular, but anyone who is gay.
It's your forum, but I really don't think his comments have any place whatsoever here or anywhere come to that. You can let him carry on posting his bigoted nonsense (and tell us to press the ignore button) or you could at the very least tell him that those sort of comments don't have any place on your forum and that if he does it again, he'll be banned.
Looks like he deleted the original
I don't think so.
rootvg says
316 Fri, 2 Mar 2012 at 2:18 pm Quote Like Dislike (1) Permalink ShareI'm not phobic at all. I don't like them. I think they're subhuman. They're chronically angry at the world, perpetually unstable emotionally and aspire to corrupt everything they touch. They hate middle America and everything it stands for.
They also just about own the Democratic party.
It used to be a faggot couldn't get a security clearance to do defense work because someone could blackmail them but I understand that's no longer the case. Secret has always been fairly easy to get but I can't speak for TS and above. A lot of things have changed since I was in that world.
Come'on rootvg, keep sharing your opinions about your fellow Americans with us. Stand by your remarks.
I really don't see where epitaphs that he uses such as 'faggot' or 'subhuman' is contributing anything constructive to a thread supposedly about real estate.
+1
I got disgusted and stopped watching this thread although it was my original post that got the homophobia thing going.
Here is the real estate context: many many people choose to buy or rent in a certain area because of demographics.
I would never live in a place like Danville or Livermore because those places have too many people who live there so they can be away from all the gays in the city. (I'm sure there are plenty of really nice, tolerant people there, too, but the bigots ruin it for everyone)
I choose to live in such an expensive place (SF) when there are many other cheaper places to live because I do not want to live in a neighborhood where I have to deal with neighbors who hate the fact that a family with gay parents has moved in. I would no more put my kids through that than I would choose to live in a neighborhood where there is gang violence and bullets flying.
Gay people get harassed, discriminated against, shunned, and physically assaulted. Go search for some statistics about hate crimes - they occur everywhere - but life is worse for gay people outside of big, liberal cities. I'm not playing victim here, just saying that I would like to raise my kids in a place where we are accepted.
Most of us will go out of our way not to move to a place where we will be a minority. For some, this is simply about comfort, but in other cases it can truly be a safety issue.
So yes, I'll pay top dollar to live here in my city by the Bay. Where we ultimately decide to live, whether we rent or buy, is never only a financial decision, there will always be issues of race, class, education level, politics, etc. that make some places more desirable than others for each of us.
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Like many of you here I have been waiting for the prices in the bay area to come falling back to earth. Over the past year, the things that I'm seeing make me believe that a huge correction will no longer happen and the prices in most area's have already corrected themselves.
The main reason why the Bay Area was spared from the large housing crash seems to come from the fact that the great recession didn't hit us as hard as other places. This let people keep their jobs and save money. Now as the U.S. is coming out of this recession, the stock market is rising, and people in the Bay Area didn't get scared of investing in housing because there was no major housing crash. We might get a good rise in housing prices. The last example that turned my opinion around is the amount of homes for sale in santa clara county. The inventory is half of what it used to be last year and it seems like the inventory that comes onto the market is quickly bought up. What do you guys think?
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