Nightshade wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 12:40 pm
I got a nasty little note from a mod about this avatar:
Can we not mock our politicians for being hypocrites and doing ACTUAL "cultural appropriation" when they think it suits them?
Anyway, I did change it to something else only because after thinking about it further, I'll give Elizabeth Warren the benefit of the doubt for now.
Hopefully she doesn't turn out to be another
Rachel Dolezal however.
I take exception to your comment that my message was "nasty". Towards Trump perhaps, but not you personally. It was more of a an attempt to perhaps help you avert the inevitable personal insults YOU would invariably receive because of the image you chose and that I, as mod, would have to delete. That's why I kept my
comments to you in a personal message and not as a public posting. Not anymore however, since you kind of back-handed dissed me in this post, although I don't know if Jeff also commented.
But yes, you are free to express your political views anyway you want, including insulting politicians using your avatar. Heaven knows I've thrown my fair share of insults towards political figures on this forum, although I usually don't like to use my avatar as a political statement. Your new one is kind of original and eye catching too. I tend to think of an avatar as something fun and personal, but to each his own poison.
PM to Nightshade from Tunnelcat wrote:Really NS? Your avatar is now a Trump insult that's nothing but schoolyard bully trash talk? I mean, who cares? In the grand scheme of things, it's unimportant. So you're going to sink down to Trump's level and latch onto his "Pocahontas" insult meme? Trump's a man who has no virtue and tells constant lies just to fit his narrative. A man who doubled down on the Birther Movement and still refuses to accept Obama's Birth Certificate. I mean, why even bother? I know you're smarter than that and you've said you don't really like Trump, so why give his idiot taunts any legitimacy and perhaps invite ridicule upon yourself? Or worse, make work for me when I have to constantly delete the inevitable insult posts from the usual suspects, vision, slick or TopGun. You're probably going to get them too.