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My .02 on FIC ongoing wish to discuss race

Posted : 4/13/2008 12:24:11 PM

Carla is being persistant on her desire to discuss race on this forum. I am going to say this...

IMO there are tons of forums out there where people can discuss politics, race, religion, sex etc. The idea for THIS forum is, as I understand it, canine based, with NDR being for this that n the other...but always family friendly.

It would be to me...VERY difficult to keep a "frank discussion on race (or abortion, or religion, or politics)" within the realms of family friendly. People WILL get hurt, people WILL get angry, and people WILL put their feet into their mouths. Those are my honest feelings about it.

I don't come to this forum to discuss heavy duty issues as much as chat about dogs and current events, family things, friendly banter, etc. I am also not certain that these types of hot topics fall into the range of what dog.com as a company want their buyers to step into when they join.

If I want more hardcore debate...I sure wouldn't indulge on a dog forum.

Them's my thoughts.

Sera_J

Posted : 4/13/2008 7:33:54 PM

Whoa... what did I miss? I'll have to go check it out. But I agree, FWIW. We can talk about a lot in passing, but in the grand scheme of things this is a dog forum first and foremost.

I think our stance should be if you want to discuss things like that, find the appropriate forum.

Benedict

Posted : 4/14/2008 7:11:33 AM

In principle, I see the point of discussions on politics etc here, there are people who don't want to find another forum, hang around until they feel comfortable and have made friends etc...in practice, those subjects are not what we're here for.

I want Jaime and Meghan to weigh in on this, I'll send them the URL to this thread and see what they think.

rwbeagles

Posted : 4/14/2008 7:33:46 AM

I am on a couple other forums where there's a sticky right up top that says "No Religion discussions..." and goes on to detail what the outcome of past discussions has been and why it's not allowed anymore etc. IMO the owners of the forum set the content and I will abide by anything Jaime, et al set forth.