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You might try asking Yaro politely to stop using the image--not because you have a right to stifle his free expression, but because it causes you great distress.
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You are kind and rational. Look at Yaro's post. He or she is not kind and rational.
The Administrator lets this go claiming free speech, and does not recognize the situation for what it is: offensive and low class. Yaro showed his picture. He had his free speech. But, enough is enough.
By replying to Yaro's message, I would dignify his messages and cause another appearance of the picture by his reply.
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You might try asking Yaro politely to stop using the image--not because you have a right to stifle his free expression, but because it causes you great distress.
You are kind and rational. Look at Yaro's post. He or she is not kind and rational.
The Administrator lets this go claiming free speech, and does not recognize the situation for what it is: offensive and low class. Yaro showed his picture. He had his free speech. But, enough is enough.
By replying to Yaro's message, I would dignify his messages and cause another appearance of the picture by his reply.
I understand your quandary, IANAT: I have lived with Buddhists who wear cloth masks lest they inhale and kill a gnat, and who wept when they stepped on a beetle. I have deep respect for the devout.
Yet, somehow, despite the difficulties, we must dignify each other's messages or the entire world will suffer the consequences.
I do know that Yaro can be kind and rational; I also know he is angry, just as many Muslins are now so angry that they do not act in a kind and rational way. We are all human and fallible creatures.
In the name of peace, I will ask Yaro to change his avatar as a favor to me.
"Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
-Sir Toby Belch,
Twelfth Night
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