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i'll add my $0.02. Z and I conferred via pm quite a few times. I pm'd Alfred quite a few times with multiple warnings (as well as public ones in posts). Actually I agonized over whether to erase some of his posts, and finally locked a thread only after considerable thought.
While I disagreed with virtually everything he said, I am a fan of conversation and debate. And despite the fact that he used a number of racially-charged terms, he didn't do very much in the way of *personal* attacks (unless you consider insults to a group "personal"). But after awhile it just gets old, and people were getting offended, imho with good reason.
The other reason I let it go was that in a certain sense, having people like Alfred1 around serves an important purpose: extreme viewpoints do exist, and we need to know that. "Keep you friends close, your enemies closer." It is scary and enlightening to read posts like his. But at some point it becomes too much, too often, and too offensive. He did veer back onto "debate", but would then careen into racist blathering. And careened one too many times...
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