I don't think anything in his post indicated he was going to remove any films or what have you that's "racist" or "racially insensitive" or what have you. By that metric, a great many movies, many of them classics, would have to be removed and it's not like a lot of progressive academia don't watch this stuff anyway as a basis for their cultural critique. You can watch "Birth of a Nation" and not sympathize with its views at all. He's moreso referring to posts and mini-reviews, but he's definitely being vague on what this entails.JakeAesthete wrote: ↑Sat Jun 18, 2022 2:44 amIf the site allows us to rate and review Birth of a Nation and Triumph of the Will (and obviously it should!), there's no reason not to include a "film" by a doofus so bent on owning the libs that he'll fly all the way to Africa to interview rural tribes just to ask them about gender roles. Way too (unintentionally) funny for anyone to be offended by, I hope (PS I've only seen clips, I'm sure there's stuff in it that makes cherrypicked leftist academics look accurately ridiculous too).
I must have missed the thread in question, but I can't even think of any particularly extreme views ever being expressed on here, or even any right-leaning ones aside from ShogunRua with his boilerplate Twitter reply-guy talking points. Nothing you wouldn't find on any other social media site. It begs the question of why a site dedicated to assigning abitrary ratings to movies feels the need to reassure us that it is "fully committed to progressive values", aside from the obvious fact that that's just what every business, corporation, non-profit, institution of any size really, feels obligated to do in the year 2022 (well, more like from 2017 onward).
Personally, I've seen a fair number of people express anti-progressive views on this site beyond ShogunRua but never anything I'd call explictly racist. I don't even take issue with these people in question. ShogunRua is abrasive and I tend to think he makes a lot of hyperbolic strawmen and ad-hominems, but I wouldn't say anything he's done is worth a ban nor do I think he's necessarily wrong to say a lot of what he has, even if I find his views questionable at times. If the goal is combat racism or whatever, banning people from speech doesn't really accomplish much nor should we act as if these people are speaking without reason on something, even if I fundamentally disagree with it. I'd call for a ban like that if I thought someone was being overly hostile towards someone to the point of harassment and bullying, which I can't really think of any of that happening on here from memory; even if it's been pretty borderline at times.
I personally don't post on the forum much anyway mostly because the activity is not that great and the topics usually don't interest me, but as it is now I don't view Criticker as a hostile place to anyone based on any of the reviews here.