Hey people
I do believe in freedom of speech and ideas. With all my heart. But I also believe that people should respect each other and that the call out to hate and bigottery should never be accepted.
However, in a site where there are dozens of ways to prevent what is considered "mature content" I am astonish that images appealing to nazi ideas, or bashing gays or calling Muslim people wolfs (or worst), are accepted without a second thought.
When I saw some of them I, naive that I am, reported them and made a complaint to the desk office - they have a report system for hate posts, so I thought I was going to be fine.
Wrong! The nice people from the offices replied to me, saying that they can't consider it bigoted content.
Sex toys are a subject of inflamed discussions and swastikas, nazi propaganda and hate statements are ok?
Is this the world we want?
DA policy states:
"We must insist that you refrain from comments which are racist, bigoted, or which otherwise offensively target a philosophy or religion. In addition we ask that our members avoid making offensive remarks based on gender or sexual preference and that you do not make any remark, comment or critique which is intended to be a direct insult to an individual, group, or genre of artwork. Hate propaganda is met with zero tolerance. Comments which are overly aggressive, personally insulting or needlessly abusive are also prohibited."
So why are there posts (hundreds) like these?:
luckmann.deviantart.com/art/Fu…berzerkr.deviantart.com/art/Mu…future-blitzkrieg.deviantart.c…as well as "specialised groups".
8nationalsocialism8.deviantart…dasschwarzekorps.deviantart.co…I don't usually vent out or preach about my ideas. But some times we really have to make a line on the ground and say: That is where it ends.
Who knows.... maybe if a lot of people complaint about the flagrant display of hate they will stop and take a good look...
Please do something about it too.
Link for the complaint:
help.deviantart.com/238/On the right side of your screen there is also a button to report the deviation
Thank you!