its not over the topic itself. more like, if the people you come on the forum to talk to are all sitting there mocking something you really really like, why keep talking on said forums? and sure you could fight, but not everyone wants to
example:
the viewer is a ps3 fanboy
Person 1: lol this topic is as dumb as sony for releaseing the ps3 at $900
person 2: lol yea, sony is retarded.
person 1: yea, and anyone who likes them must be stupid.
now if persons 1 and 2 are your best friends on the forum, you might get mad at this.
but this is about more important things than game systems, i see a lot of people mocing religion here. thats as bad as being racest in terms of singleing out people and offending them.
example:
the viewer is a christian
Person 1: lol this topic is as dumb as the bible
person 2: lol yea, jesus is retarded
person 1: yea, and anyone who believes in him must be stupid.
now if persons 1 and 2 are your best friends on the forum, you might get mad at this.
okay, but not everyone is like that on these forums. they try to be as respectful as they can when talking, but they still say that.
lets say your black, and your life long best friend comes over and says to you
"lol, your a nigger, and all niggers are stupid"
keep in mind hes not joking or anything. we'll say hes been hanging out with racest people lately, and thats why hes like this, if you want a reason.
now if he says
"sorry. i dont like you anymore be cause your skin is a differant color than mine, and i believe that makes you less inteligent than me and other people of my skin color, i hope your not offended."
you're still going to get offended, and mad. and some of you will say "thats his problem" but if hes your life long best friend you would expect more from him than that, so dont give me that BS.
you wouldnt be his friend anymore.
anyway, now i've showen you that being respectful, your words can still piss people off.
so lets say you go to a group on the internet, and everyone likes final fantasy 9, and so do you, so you join, but in every topic theres something like "lol, yea boss 6 was a nigger" or something along those lines. would you really put up with it? or would you just go somewhere else?
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question: how can being a ps3 fanboy hater be like being racest?
answer: cause you hate someone based on only one thing, regardless of wether they're good people or not.
question: why did you only use christians and blacks? isnt that racest?
answer: im christian, so i know what thats like, and one of my friends is black and had that happen to him, and maybe you could view it as racest, but i'm not saying black people are christians are any better or worse than anyone else, so i personaly wouldnt view it as such.
question: didnt you blow this out of porportion?
anwser: i zoomed in so you could see all the flaws easyer.
question: why dony you use spell check, and proper grammer?
answer: too lazy, but i took english 101 in collage, and i have firefox spell checker, so dont think its cause i cant.
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short version: you only say its stupid because you don't know whats its like, dumbasses.