A note on how we want discussions to feel here

[Zack]

Yeah exactly, tone matters just as much as the take. People don’t have to agree, but if we say things in a way that matches the intent instead of escalating it then conversation can actually go somewhere instead of dying in drama

I'm sorry if this isn't appropriate, but I just wanna quote the Bible. "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing." 1 Corinthians 13:1–3 (NKJV)
Love is the foundation, the fundamental, the principle.

 

[mike smith]

Yeah exactly, tone matters just as much as the take. People don’t have to agree, but if we say things in a way that matches the intent instead of escalating it then conversation can actually go somewhere instead of dying in drama

Let's face it. Most of the patrons on this forum uses it to promulgate their bigotry and hate. Couching hatred, racism and sexism in innocent sounding words does not fool any sane person.