Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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Mod's are taking a stronger stance against Threads and Posts that are intended to Race Bait. Consider this a notice and an addition to the current board guidelines as of now until we can update the actual board guidelines.

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http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/57124-race-baiting/


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Re: Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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bcspace wrote:Pinned in General Discussions:

Mod's are taking a stronger stance against Threads and Posts that are intended to Race Bait. Consider this a notice and an addition to the current board guidelines as of now until we can update the actual board guidelines.

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http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/57124-race-baiting/


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What, exactly do they mean by "race baiting"? Do you have an example, BC? I haven't really been following MDD that closely.
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Re: Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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bcspace wrote:Pinned in General Discussions:

Mod's are taking a stronger stance against Threads and Posts that are intended to Race Bait. Consider this a notice and an addition to the current board guidelines as of now until we can update the actual board guidelines.

Nemesis

http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/57124-race-baiting/


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liz3564 wrote:What, exactly do they mean by "race baiting"? Do you have an example, BC? I haven't really been following MDD that closely.


It appears to me they mean threads discussing blacks and the priesthood, 3 threads have been started about it, thanks to the BY Prof, and those three threads have been closed.
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Re: Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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bcspace wrote:?????


They might mean they find it most advantageous for the Church, to not discuss the entire issue of race, since the entire vehicle of not admitting the obvious truth about the Priesthood ban is a no win situation. Even the most neutral of third parties viewing supportive or mitigating arguments for the ban would walk away with a less than positive impression of such discussions.
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Re: Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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I would like to amend that last statement. Just read a thread on the MDD board where active LDS members stood up and said the Ban was both racist and wrong. Nachadow, Buckeye, Jeremy Orb-Smith and the other 43.6% of poll respondents took this stand. Kudos to BlueDreams for also introducing science to help lend a hand in kicking butt on that skin color as a curse nonsense.

Makes me less cynical and more hopeful. If we no longer seek to fool ourselves that demonstrates our desire to be a fully informed and prophetic people.
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Re: Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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For clarity, here is an example of Race Baiting...

 
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Re: Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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Nothing but censorship. I think they reciprocate with CARM to create most oppressive rules & regulations.
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Re: Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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Misnomer:

Race baiting is where you make verbal attacks against members of a racial group.

What they don't like is "racist" baiting.

That is where you ask a BYU professor to explain the reason for the priesthood ban.
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Re: Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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bcspace wrote:Pinned in General Discussions:

Mod's are taking a stronger stance against Threads and Posts that are intended to Race Bait. Consider this a notice and an addition to the current board guidelines as of now until we can update the actual board guidelines.

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http://www.mormondialogue.org/topic/57124-race-baiting/

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I think this means the mods over there realize that the Bott debacle is very troubling even to TBM's. I think the poll over there showed that most believe the priesthood ban was man-made and wrong. So the mods are freaking out ... as they should, in my opinion.
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Re: Who's Race Baiting on the MDD?

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Rollo Tomasi wrote:I think this means the mods over there realize that the Bott debacle is very troubling even to TBM's. I think the poll over there showed that most believe the priesthood ban was man-made and wrong.


Which would make Brigham Young and the other Prophets prior to SWK racist and uninspired and seen to have led the Church astray.
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