me
4:02 PM i Like Italy and by the way im jewish so screw u asshole
him
04:14 PM I will destroy you, jew.

Waitwut?

Oh, and I also hate the state of Israel because they have killed over 500 Palestinian women and children in their bombings in Gaza over the past month, so that probably contributed to the whole anti-semetic posts. How many did Hamas kill? Oh, yeah, Hamas killed 4 troops before Israel did that to all the innocent Palestinians.

It's so convenient that Kriegsmarine and Wehrmacht are the same person. I've just banned both accounts. Don't even have to worry about setting a dangerous precedent for now. =)

First: Uh, I'm confused, are Wehrmacht and Kreigsmarine the same person? I thought the person who made the original comment was Wehrmacht, but Kreigsmarine defended it, then Wehrmacht... I'm lost

Second: If we're getting into freedom of speech, sending a message on this site does not constitute "forcing him to see it", he didn't have to log onto the site. He did so knowing that he would receive messages from perhaps unsavory people. However, freedom of speech does not extend to lewd or grossly inappropriate things as judged by your peers. Just like you can't go into a kindergarten and yell Nazi propaganda. However, peers does mean that something not okay in Detroit (just an example) might be okay in Miami, depends on the local culture. As such I think the general topic of racist comments has been condemned by the community as a whole, and so can be made against the rules of the site with no worries to "free speech". Not that it's anything but Kestas' call anyways. And I'm not talking about punishment for this issue, he apologized (I think, see the first comment) so I'm willing to let it go.

Oh, thanks Chrisp. Ignore point #1.

The troublemakers socially always seem to have multiple accounts, don't they?

What a serious nutbag. Glad he's gone.

Yes.

Because we all know that Israel is made of win.

:D

Whoa. Lets not open that 650+ post Pandora's box again.

<_<
>_>

DO IT

Ha! He was in a game of mine. Now I can get Sevastopol back real easy.

I'm glad there didn't need to be a decision made based on his actual words. That's a slippery slope, I think.

How could someone join so fast? Oh well, looks like the game's still fair.

EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT ISRAEL IS MADE OF WIN

GO PANDORA'S BOX GO

I think the precedent should be moderators choice. If the player involved shows remorse and promises not to reoffend and is a first-time offender them they should be allowed to stay.

But if its really bad and they are just being intentionally disruptive then they have to go.

Define win.

dexter: don't you recognize wit when you see it?

I was in a couple games with him. Whole thing's kinda pathetic.

"However, freedom of speech does not extend to lewd or grossly inappropriate things as judged by your peers. Just like you can't go into a kindergarten and yell Nazi propaganda."

I wish people would stop telling me what freedom of speech means. We come from many different countries on this site and different countries have different laws regarding both what is said, and what happens to those who use that speech of the internet. If I remember correctly, there's a least one member here from Thailand, and while he has the freedom to say whatever the hell he wants about George Bush or Barack Obama, that same freedom does not extend to the king of Thailand.

You're right DJ, I completely forgot that not everyone on the site is from the US.

What I said was how US law looks at it. My apologies to everyone on the site who isn't in the US.

I'm playing Russia in this game, and as a Jewish person it offends to hear such remarks that have no connection to the game and were purely racist, and as an Israeli I think saying he's plaestinian is also racist and ignorant to both sides of the conflict.....
Anyways, im glad we can agree that hatred of any kind(gender,race ,religion or color of skin) should not be tolreated.

Whermacht, no matter that im a proud Israeli (not talking of politics)
hating me without knowing me is one of the worst things a person could do to another person(mentally)

Ndr-Isr,
The original poster of the jew comment mentioned that it came directly from the TV show South Park. While I don't regularly watch the show, I have no doubt that that line has come repeatedly out of the mouth of Cartman, the 4th grade rascist on that show. It was probably repeated by a 14 year old on this site without the recognition that it was rascist.

ok some of it was bad, but calling a jewish person a jew isnt racist

Trim, the original quote a little more than that.

"Him 02:56 PM Autumn 1902: Listen, i'm not going to win this game so i just want to screw over Russia for being a little bitch. So how about you jew over to italy for a while while i piss off russia, and i'll let you have my country in about a year and a half.

me 4:02 PM i Like Italy and by the way im jewish so screw u asshole

him 04:14 PM I will destroy you, jew. "

yeah i get it my point was calling someone a jew whose jewish isn't racist

I'm not quite sure I agree with that. Its all context. I believe in this situation it was fully intended to be degrading.

You can't prove intent, unfortunately. However, the "jew over to italy" was clearly racists, whether he wants to claim South Park-ian or not.

well, he's been banned so....

@rratclif: "My apologies to everyone on the site who isn't in the US."

racist!

Philcore: Lolwut?