Thread:Obi the LEGO Fan/@comment-25988337-20150705174500/@comment-26047195-20150705215121

Mishkaiel wrote: Luke McSwagger99 wrote: I've lost an incredible amount of respect for all three of you. At this level you're not even that interested in effectively expressing your "heritage" or whatever it is you choose to be proud of. Instead, you immaturely crave to be as disruptive as possible about it, bringing attention to yourselves and the conflict. State something about your pride in "Confederate heritage" on your userpage or something if you absolutely must; it'll be slightly effective for presenting it as opposed to the vagueness of an avatar that can be easily perceived as racist.

And no, using these as a response to the rainbow LGBT* avatars that a few of our community members here have is not a valid comparison at all. Like I previously mentioned, an avatar that can be perceived as racist is certainly something to as you might label it, "take offense at". An avatar that represents an individual's sexual orientation is by no means something offensive to others, whether you're for or against homosexuality. I personally believe that homosexuality is a sin, but the existence of sin is by no means "offensive" to me, if we're dealing with the general definition of offense here. Don't make weak comparisons, guys. Be mature. If you want respect from others, then please act in a manner deserving of it. The amount of respect you decide to have towards somebody is your decision. You could have little respect for a mature person, and vice versa.

As to your saying " immaturely crave to be as disruptive as possible about it,"  if you are refering to my St George post, then that was intended as humor. Ik you'll say that it was immature humor, and idc wut you think of my humor. So don't even bring it up. And might I point out that you live in Florida, which was on the side of the confederacy. So are you a Yankee living in Rebel territory, or what?

and when has that comparison been made? I never made that comparison. Either somebody else brought it up, or you're making it up. As to be mature, hehe. nvmd. What if we're already acting in said mannor yet you find us immature still? That would make it your problem and not ours.

=l "The amount of respect you decide to have towards somebody is your decision"

Yes true, but your decision is based upon reasoning. You respect someone for who they are, how they conduct themselves, things they've done, ectecera. You don't just wake up one morning and decide to respect someone out of the blue. Respect is something earned.

I'm sorry, with all the immaturity thrown around, it's beginning to grow difficult to take you seriously or to in general, discern from you what is and what is not humorous (also based on the general fact that your usual examples of humor are much more annoying than funny).

"Idc wut you think of my humor. Don't even bring it up."

This is yet another good example that you really don't care what the community thinks of you and that you possess no desire or potential to change your behavior. And I'm sorry, but some aspects of your "humor" just can't go ignored; i.e. the "joke" Rio issued a warning for you about pertaining to your direct reference of whipping black people.

"So are you a Yankee living in Rebel territory or what?"

For your information, the Civil War ended in 1865. I'm an American living in America. I absolutely DON'T CARE whether the state I live in now was Confederate or which side my ancestors fought for, it's completely irrelevant to my political beliefs today. I have other things to be proud of besides some Southern heritage. I don't even know why you bothered bringing that up lol.

"I never even made that comparison"

Oh yes you certainly have, no need to formulate excuses. You've explicitly stated in wearing the Confederate avatar that the rainbow avatars are "offensive" to "us". I don't make things up.

"What if we're already acting in said mannor yet you find us immature still?"

1. *manner

2. Not entirely sure what you mean by this. Is the said manner being the act of displaying maturity? If you all were acting with maturity then I wouldn't find you immature, don't know why you say that. It's not like people are seeking to label others as immature, as you make it out to be. I was speaking with Rio earlier on this, and we'd certainly rather see users learn from conflicts and come to a state of being agreeable with the community. Like I said, you have to earn the respect. And please stop making assumptions, we'd all appreciate it and that could be a good start.