Gilbakka posted:Leonora posted:Django posted:yuji22 posted:Bloody Saudis. Criminals and murderers.
Keffer’s Towel Head Heroes.
Keffer gonna whup you !!!
He's a glutton for punishment.
You think so? I think not so. By the looks of his responses, yuji enjoys riling up Keffer and I wonder why Keffer biting the bait and bothering to compose time-consuming admonitions. Keffer should ignore yuji's mischievous provocations.
I am not biting any bait; it is readily evident, if one is to go back and read the writings and comments of Yuji and a few others, that they are really bigoted and hateful of some others. Here is an individual who hollered and screamed as loudly as his lungs permitted about what I wrote about atrocities committed by the US army in Vietnam; despite being completely ignorant of the historical truth of Vietnam. I believe we should all feel obliged to take a stand against such people because, like it or not, this facility really is an indicator of the education, knowledge and perception of its participants; almost 100% of whom I believe are from Guyana. A quick review of the comments posted by folks like Yuji and his 'sidekick' Skeldon-man will confirm my assessment as their writings are laced with hateful and bigoted statements about people of certain countries, religions and communities. Free speech is a phenomenon that we should all treasure but it is evident that some people clearly have no appreciation of this. Should blatant and deliberately ugly/derogatory characterizations of the language, dress, lifestyles, etc of other people be acceptable ?
I appreciate the fact that as individual participants, there is only so much that each of us can do/say and that the controllers of GNI therefore have the responsibility of taking corrective action as and when they deem it necessary. A while ago, I suggested to Amral that participants in this forum out to be screened via an intelligence/knowledge/education test so that 'undesirables', instead of being allowed to contaminate this facility with hate, bigotry and lack of decorum, should be removed from GNI. I hope he will at some time give serious consideration to that because the ideas and opinions of some participants could be a seriously misleading indicator of the knowledge and intelligence of Guyanese.