Most people in this world are likely a little bit racist or xenophobic in the viewpoint that people from different cultures or countries are not as good as people from their particular area, so we cannot be oversensitive in that regard, but extreme racism is definitely a no-no in my view.
Right, but the point I'm making is that words like "oversensitive" or "extreme" are
very subjective. There are many people in the world who would say any instance of a racial slur is "extreme" racism. I'm not phrasing it that way because I disagree, but because I genuinely cannot imagine a worse venue for discussing the finer points of critical race theory than a powerscaling website, and I do not want to discuss it here. I am encouraging you and the other staff to recognize the issue that it creates for us to concern ourselves with off-site behavior beyond that which is immediately relevant to forum matters.
This started with a user bringing up Chase's off-site conduct for the sole purpose of starting drama, and responding to the RVR report by erroneously accusing staff of defending that conduct and likening them to a real-world human sex trafficker, and he's now leveraging the visceral disgust felt towards Chase's behavior to justify his actions when -- by his own admission -- this instigation was a joke to him, not a sincere expression of moral offense.
If we are opening up the RVR to moral offenses conducted outside of this forum, it's going to be a serious challenge. Here on the website any bigoted slur would result in a ban, we wouldn't concern ourselves with what ethnicity/orientation that person was or debate the ethics of using it. We also wouldn't have much uncertainty about what was said or by who, because we have full access to the forum's logs.
Off site, suddenly this is more challenging. We are putting ourselves in the position of assessing what is so bad that it cannot be tolerated even off the forum, and those discussions are a lot more complicated. When bringing up racism, I've had many say to me "Well racism isn't as bad as pedophilia" which, you know, no ******* shit it isn't, but that is a different question that "is off-site racism bad enough to warrant a ban?" What kind of racism is bad enough? Or rape jokes? I saw someone posts in a channel the other day saying "mods rape this man." Is that severe enough to warrant a ban? HR is another matter. Are they now in the position of deciding whether a staff member's off-site language or behavior is bad enough to warrant banning them?
I mean, we could take the easy way out, and say that pedophilia related matters are a special exception and decide not to open it up to any other manner of poor conduct, but that doesn't appear what people want to go for here, and I think a lot of people are not giving due consideration to the complexities involved because it's easy to retreat to something platitudinous and reference the visceral nature of Chase's offenses.