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If so, where did he acquire these special powers?

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This is so [censored] annoying. Pan Am games - USA beats Nicarauga 8 BY 4 the Hispanic chick tells us. Speak normal English damn it.

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I disagree that this is racist. Saying the reporter is Hispanic is key to why the English was not 'normal'. Hispanic's 'normal language' would be Spanish - right? An English speaking viewer complaining about a non correct English broadcast should not be considered racist. JMHO

Thank you,

Jim Kuhn
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Gild,

It is from when he used to be a super fatass and got made fun of all the time.

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Like I said Meb, I think that post is pretty overly bigoted, while it's not as blatant as "I hate black people" you don't have to do a lot of reading between the lines to see where he's going.

This may be a function of region and the fact that my family works in fields relating to language, but I'm really bothered by phrases like "normal english". There's a lot of caterwalling about the spread spanish language, and it's almost always just masked racism.

Given the stink this is causing I probably won't do this again for something that isn't as obvious.

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Dibs,

When someone takes on the role of being arbiter of what "masked racism" is allowable and what isn't, you start treading in some pretty tough areas, and imo an anonymous public message board is probably not the best place to address that stuff well.

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Dibs,

When someone takes on the role of being arbiter of what "masked racism" is allowable and what isn't, you start treading in some pretty tough areas, and imo an anonymous public message board is probably not the best place to address that stuff well.

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The guidance I've gotten in the past is that we have to at least take a swing at this, but I agree its rediculously tough. A major reason my forum was almost closed is that there was too much "masked racism".

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the discussion happening around all this is silly.

the ban in this case was on the borderline. admit in atf that you were probably over-sensitive in this case and apologize.

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Correct grounds for banning is retardation, not racism imo.

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bad ban imo.