What’s with having to find something to do with it? I read and discuss a lot about history, archaeology, philosophy, economics, linguistics, biology, psychology, genetics, classics, music and politics without any desire to do ‘something’ with anything of them. I’m just interested in them and want to have the most accurate understanding of them. I didn’t see anything offensive in that thread whatsoever.
Anyway, we discussed the shut-down in the Low Content Thread: *** October 2012 low content thread *** - #261 by Neodoxy
I don’t really see how having a single thread on ‘race’ on the LvMI forums hurts the reputation of the LvMI. The people who would label the LvMI racist over something like that would see them as crackpots and racists (neoconfederates) anyway. If there were threads all over the forum about it then it would detract from the purpose of the site, but deleting a single thread like that is a ridiculous overreaction, especially since there was no flaming going on at all. We have a million threads about alienation and employment being unjust, and the mods don’t care. One thread about race and it gets deleted.