I don't think we can have civil exchanges when some moderators don't have a basic education in the English language.

Inept moderation in the name of censorship for personal preference ruins forums. Nobody should be worried about what a sensitive moderator might cry over for reasons which have nothing to do with rule violations. And that's what happens when factually incorrect assumptions and assessments are used as a basis for moderator action. When it goes beyond matters of judgement to matters of repeated factual errors, I expect better. I think we all should.

Bartman, you were factually wrong when you claimed that the Europe 4 All poster display was unaffiliated with the EU. You closed a thread explicitly for this reason.

You were factually wrong when you claimed that I was hateful in describing an ideology which has killed millions and oppressed tens of millions more as "hateful" and "garbage."  You closed a thread explicitly for this reason.

Describing something as "hateful" is not hateful. Explaining why you believe something is morally objectionable is not hateful or offensive. Descriptions of hate are just descriptive language, essential to coherent communication and cogent arguments.

Is it against the rules to describe things as "ignorant," "hateful," or "garbage" when we believe them to be such? No. It's not. You're just censoring topics you don't want to see discussed because they make you uncomfortable.

There was nothing hateful in my wanting to talk about a poster displayed in an European Commission building, what it implied with the predominance of a certain symbol, or what this might say of EU member culture. I just wanted to bring it up and talk about it. I don't hate Europeans. Heck, as much as I object to communism for pragmatic and moral reasons, I don't even hate communists. If anything was hateful, it wasn't my posts.

Of course, seeing as two separate threads were closed for separate reasons, neither of which was true, it seems obvious that these were never the reasons for closing those threads to begin with. Twice you've closed threads for separate, incontestably false reasons. You don't see a problem here? Such conduct is unhealthy for discussions on sometimes sensitive topics.

This post violates the forum rules. It should be locked and I should be warned for my misconduct. My previous threads on a Europe 4 All poster, however, do not violate any forum rules. If the rules are going to be enforced and this post is going to be locked, as it should, those threads should be unlocked, and they never should have been locked to begin with.