Warning Points

[brnbk]

On 5/12/2021 at 4:04 PM, rawTOP said:

Writing in German is also not allowed on this site. We don't allow things we can't moderate.

May I politely ask, Isn't such a policy racist?

After all the Germans have contributed more to Kink culture and barebacking than other nationality. I bet, gay men who like to have fun sex have Berlin on the Top of their list of places to visit . Historically speaking: it was Berlin, Germany that gave birth to the modern Gay movement and not StoneWall, USA — as is often assumed and reported in the U.S gay media. While Stonewall was a milestone in the US Gay rights movement it did not give birth to the U.S. gay rights movement. The formation of the  Mattachine Society almost 2 decades before the StoneWall riots¹ as first national gay rights movement, and which caused a stink with the US Government who within a month came out with a Senate report titled "Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts in Government", can be legitimately considered to be the spark of the modern Gay Rights movement in the U.S.; while the US Supreme Court verdict in favor of gay rights in the  One, Inc. v. Olesen case which let the gay magazine "One: The Homosexual Magazine." escape obscenity charges can be rightly located as the birth of the gay rights movement in the US. 

To put history into perspective, English speaking homosexuals from the United States mustered the courage to give up on their WASP values and have gay sex and be more open about their homosexuality mostly after visiting Berlin in the 1930s and 40s and getting exposed to the thriving gay culture in the Weimar Republic,  beautifully described in many books particularly Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy. Authors like Gore Vidal, Edmund White etc. who made the 'unspeakable vice' acceptable in Anglo-Saxon literature, and started writing openly gay novels had found refugee in Berlin during the Inter War period and where able to, indeed, be gay because of the generosity of the Germans. 

 Isn't it fair that we acknowledge the historic role of Germany in the gay rights movement and allow people who do not speak English the right to write in German, if they wish.  I do see some Europeans on the site who would benefit from such a policy and am positive someone would step forward and volunteer to moderate in German, soon. 

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¹ [think before following links] [think before following links] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/stonewall-milestones-american-gay-rights-movement/

 

Edited Tuesday at 10:15 PM by brnbk

[drscorpio]

I think you are being deliberately obtuse. The sentences you quoted explain the policy completely. The website is responsible for the content of what users post here. To that end, we cannot allow content that we do not know the meaning of. I can and do use Google Translate or similar services when someone posts in another language, but that is not a substitute for fluency in the language. If the staff cannot read your post, it is not allowed. 

[drscorpio]

6 hours ago, brnbk said:

  I do see some Europeans on the site who would benefit from such a policy and am positive someone would step forward and volunteer to moderate in German, soon. 

I assure you there has not been a torrent of people volunteering to moderate. It is a thankless job that results in your being publicly denigrated on an almost daily basis. Most people who try doing it quit soon thereafter. 

[insatiableholeinTO]

33 minutes ago, drscorpio said:

I think you are being deliberately obtuse. The sentences you quoted explain the policy completely. The website is responsible for the content of what users post here. To that end, we cannot allow content that we do not know the meaning of. I can and do use Google Translate or similar services when someone posts in another language, but that is not a substitute for fluency in the language. If the staff cannot read your post, it is not allowed. 

Wow...either assimilate or piss off. So basically anyone who does not speaks suitable english that BZ moderators can understand, whether it's German, Russian, Chinese, hell basically any country that's not part of North America are prohibited from having a voice on this...whatever you want to call it. How very inclusive of you, bravo.

[drscorpio]

9 minutes ago, insatiableholeinTO said:

Wow...either assimilate or piss off. So basically anyone who does not speaks suitable english that BZ moderators can understand, whether it's German, Russian, Chinese, hell basically any country that's not part of North America are prohibited from having a voice on this...whatever you want to call it. How very inclusive of you, bravo.

I am pretty sure that people speak English outside of North America. For that matter plenty of people in North America do not speak English. 

Again, you are being deliberately obtuse. This is not about lack or respect for anyone’s heritage or culture or even their language. This is about our ability to effectively moderate the content that is posted as is required by the laws of the country in which it is based.