Are these the comments of a bigot?

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Like I said before, we didn't agree on anything regarding politics (and religion or morality, for that matter).

But we had a PM discussion about our heritage and he was very cordial and friendly and he must have mellowed out considerably once I had joined the forum because besides a few snide comments here and there, he didn't seem that overboard.

And while I didn't say anything in particular to criticize you, I totally understand how you feel that way because you've been around for a lot longer than I and you knew a different side of him.

To be honest, I thought all of those quotes were from Ann Coulter.. I was actually a bit mortified when I found out they were from Statesrights.

Sadly, there is a lot more where that came from.. and I realize nothing that I do will ever change these peoples' minds.. so all I can do is try to be the best person I can and maybe it'll rub off a bit.

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Is the person whose nickname is "Jesus" and openly mocks the people many on this forum acknowledge as the messiah on a regular basis complaining about remarks?  This is the best who had a rather disturbing image of a naked man if I recall.  Jesus, he who is without sin cast the first stone, and just b/c criticizing Christianity isn't considered bigoted by the left-wing doesn't mean it isn't

"Hi.  I love to compare apples and oranges.  But I am politically closer to the orange, so when the orange does something obviously worse than the apple, I'll ignore the orange and concentrate on smearing and criticizing the apple."

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lol, were we bored today or something?

Yes. I have a lot of studying to do, and I'll probably be pulling an all nighter. I needed a break.

lol, were we bored today or something?

Yeah, we need to get you a hobby or a girlfriend or a job Jesus. You put way too much work into finding evidence for this person's bigotry. So who is this? Is this States or somebody else?

As for the comments most are obviously horrible and hate filled and, yes, bigoted.

Yes, of course it is States. It was not a terribly difficult task--I merely typed in words like "homosexuality" and "black" into the search engine, and set it to show posts by StatesRights. I honestly feel like I barely scratched the surface--he has said so many offensive and horrible things.

I was inspired by the thread about how he had left. He received and outpouring of love and praise from the forum community. I was absolutely disgusted.

You people have no standards. My opinion of this forum has plummeted over the past year, but that thread was a turning point. I had not realized what a cesspool this place is. There are few people on this planet less worthy of life than StatesRights. He is a despicable human being, yet I'm the insane one for disliking him!?

How can someone like Afleitch, a homosexual, "miss" a man who says he is a disgusting child molester? What the hell is wrong with you guys?! I felt I needed to remind you all what kind of person StatesRights is. A horrible one. It is disgraceful that any of you would be upset because of his departure. I was very upset by some of the forumers praising States as a "good" man.

Though I would guess he will return to the forum (he has attempted to leave before), I hope you guys realize how much better this forum is without him. There are people more deserving of your sympathy. It is unfortunate that some of you must suggest that I have no life--honestly Colin, you're the President of a friggin fantasy nation, what position are you in to criticize me? I don't really even care if I get banned from this forum anymore.

Boohoo. You're a horrible person too, so I can't say your sudden flash of sympathy for the victims of bigotry moves me all that much. As others have said StatesRights was a nice person. He had some horrible views but a lot of people here have horrible views. For someone who's acted abusively to other people constantly and pushed the limits of free speech to its outmost boundaries I don't really think you're in a position to censor someone else.

And, of course, feuding is dumb. Feuding with someone on an internet forum is dumber. But feuding with someone who has LEFT an internet forum? Come on.

You know Gustaf, you come across as being very arrogant.  I can't say I've seen you add much to the forum lately other than criticizing other forum members.

Maybe I'm being really unfair because I don't know you very well at all.. and it might be silly, like you said, because this is just a forum on the internet... but I'd appreciate it if you'd offer more constructive criticism and a little less finger waving.

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I'd like to retract part of the above statement. I just read a post of Snowguy's and remembered who he is (an arrogant poster with weak debate abilities and serious anger issues). I hope your little lecture on how to criticize people was a joke and if it wasn't I guess it sort of underlined my actual point. But I will leave this interesting 3-page discussion to the rest of you now.

I've never denied that I'm arrogant.  In fact I've admitted it in several posts as one of my biggest problems that I need to work on.

But what I said above is true.  I haven't seen anything constructive from you (or from Bono) lately except cheap insults and trying to belittle others.  I won't say I haven't done the same thing, but I don't come to this forum for the sole purpose of getting my jollies off at others' expense.

I do find it a bit ridiculous that you have alleged that I have some serious anger issues.  For somebody who doesn't really care about "some jerk" on the internet, you seem to have a lot of insight into their personalities!

If you have such a problem with me, please put me on ignore.  I wouldn't want to detract from your positive experience here!