Hate speech, the parochial derail

[Cormac]

Let's say, for example, a person started a thread intensely bashing "niggers" or "wops" or "slopes" or "faggots" or "trannies" or whatever, but never insults any other member or breaks any of the existing rules. Then he starts another and another and another and another and another and another...about the same topic. It's hate speech. It's illegal in many countries and/or in many jurisdictions within countries.

I'm all for freedom of expression and speech. I'll all not for hate speech. In your opinion, is Ratz the kind of place where it should be protected or banned? Something else? (Don't want to set up a false dichotomy.)

All fine, so long as noone has a go at the Micks, Paddies, Bog Trotters, or such.

[Animavore]

Shut it, culchie.

[klr]

Shut it, culchie.

That's the spirit.

[Cormac]

Shut it, culchie.

I'm not from fucking Mayo, you Jackeen twat!

[JimC]

Oooooh, some people from a tiny Atlantic island are insulting each other for being from slightly different places in the sodden turf!

Fascinating!

[Cormac]

Oooooh, some people from a tiny Atlantic island are insulting each other for being from slightly different places in the sodden turf!

Fascinating!

Jim, you have no idea.

That whole protestant - catholic thing has absolutely nothing on the intense hatred between one village and the next. We can hear a difference in accent between people living a couple of miles up the road, and of course, hate them accordingly.

It is a "survival of the fittest" thing...

Fucking cunts.

[JimC]

Oooooh, some people from a tiny Atlantic island are insulting each other for being from slightly different places in the sodden turf!

Fascinating!

Jim, you have no idea.

That whole protestant - catholic thing has absolutely nothing on the intense hatred between one village and the next. We can hear a difference in accent between people living a couple of miles up the road, and of course, hate them accordingly.

It is a "survival of the fittest" thing...

Fucking cunts.

The only ones we hate here are people fom Sydney...

And Tasmanians, of course...

[surreptitious57]

Mayo is the most beautiful county in all of Ireland. It is my spiritual and ancestral home.

[Animavore]

Oooooh, some people from a tiny Atlantic island are insulting each other for being from slightly different places in the sodden turf!

Fascinating!

Jim, you have no idea.

That whole protestant - catholic thing has absolutely nothing on the intense hatred between one village and the next. We can hear a difference in accent between people living a couple of miles up the road, and of course, hate them accordingly.

It is a "survival of the fittest" thing...

Fucking cunts.

That reminds me - I fucking hate Skerries posh twats and Lusk and Ballbriggan scum
Loughshinny are too insignificant to waste ire.

[Cormac]

Mayo is the most beautiful county in all of Ireland. It is my spiritual and ancestral home.

Oh, Mayo is lovely. It is the people there that are cunts.

[Cormac]

Oooooh, some people from a tiny Atlantic island are insulting each other for being from slightly different places in the sodden turf!

Fascinating!

Jim, you have no idea.

That whole protestant - catholic thing has absolutely nothing on the intense hatred between one village and the next. We can hear a difference in accent between people living a couple of miles up the road, and of course, hate them accordingly.

It is a "survival of the fittest" thing...

Fucking cunts.

That reminds me - I fucking hate Skerries posh twats and Lusk and Ballbriggan scum
Loughshinny are too insignificant to waste ire.

All you Dublin pricks are the same. You have the same high-foreheads, and protruding eyebrows as the archetypal habitual criminal...

[surreptitious57]

Mayo is the most beautiful county in all of Ireland. It is my spiritual and ancestral home.

Oh, Mayo is lovely. It is the people there that are cunts.

Then that makes me half of one.

[Cormac]

Mayo is the most beautiful county in all of Ireland. It is my spiritual and ancestral home.

Oh, Mayo is lovely. It is the people there that are cunts.

Then that makes me half of one.

Ah, don't worry about it, we'll name you an honorary cunt, if you like.

You half-mayo cunt.

[surreptitious57]

Mayo is the most beautiful county in all of Ireland. It is my spiritual and ancestral home.

Oh, Mayo is lovely. It is the people there that are cunts.

Then that makes me half of one.

Ah, don't worry about it, we'll name you an honorary cunt, if you like.

You half-mayo cunt.

I hope you like the people of Roscommon a bit more, otherwise that will make me a total one.

[devogue]

Seeing black people, Chinese people and Pakistani people in Ireland is always interesting.

I think they feel a little confused and forlorn at the lack of racism directed at them because we are too busy hating the other fucking side here to have any energy left to hate them.