To everyone who joined these forums at some point, and got discouraged by the negativity and left after a while (or even got literally scared off): I'm sorry.

I wasn't good enough at encouraging people to be kinder, and removing people who refuse to be kind. Encouraging people is hard, and removing people creates conflict, and I hate conflict... so that's why I wasn't better at it.

I was a very, very sensitive teen. The atmosphere of this forum as it is now, if it had existed in 1996, would probably have upset me far more than it would have helped.

I can handle quite a lot of negativity and even abuse now, but that isn't the point. I want to help people. I want to help the people who need it the most, and I want to help people like the 1996 version of me.

I'm still figuring out the best way to do that, but as it is now, these forums are doing more harm than good, and I can't keep running them.

Thank you to the few people who have tried to understand my point of view so far. I really, really appreciate you guys. You are beautiful people.

Everyone else: If after everything I've said so far, you still don't understand my motivations, I think it's unlikely that you will. We're just too different. Maybe someday in the future it might make sense, but until then, there's no point in arguing about it. I don't have the time or the energy for arguing anymore. I will focus my time and energy on people who support me, and those who need help.

-SoulRiser

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yeah, i think that the only societies that should be suppressed are ones that would lead to the oppression of many others (nazi, racist, etc...) but no culture should be destroyed. everyone has a right to be heard.

I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.The quickest way to kill a revolution is to wait for it.

I had all societies in here.
Not ethnicities.
But Yes, I do think that nazis are stupid.
But a whole society of nazis and racists gone is stupid.
If you had a select few people out of those disappear, then maybe they wouldn't have such bad names.

Don't get me wrong, I disagree fully with all of the nazi and racist beliefs...

"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees through narrow chinks of his cavern."

Kirby Wrote:I don't mean that we should go an ethnic cleansing or intellectually suppress people. I mean that there are some cultures that we could do without, such cannibals.

Fijians used to be cannibals!!And cannablism...wait..no...I agree with you

"Want evidence of how deeply we've allowed the media to define our beauty? Look in the mirror. How many of you honestly believe in your own essential beauty? Isn't it wrong that we have let the bastards define human beauty for us, instead of encouraging us to look within each other for it?"