I’d hate to stir conflict any further, truly, because conflict was the entire problem here, but the issue is that you can’t recognize that.
Of course, it’s my fault for saying things that sounded pretty damn racist. Yeah, of course.
It’s the fact that you had to turn it into over 230 messages worth of just not letting it go.
I’m 100% sure I would have gotten off free if it wasn’t for creating such a storm that the entire thread had to be shut down. I made it abundantly clear that I was sorry, and you all just kept it up anyway.
I want you to think REALLY hard, not about what anybody else said, but about what I said, and what you said.
We all said a lot of things that I regret, and I just want you to let. it. go.
I’m not trying to dodge criticism, I’m not trying to argue about anything.
Honestly, I’m willing to bet the racism would’ve been slid under the rug and he’d get only a warning…
… I’d not for the fact that he’s Stocksounds, and the mods were looking for a good excuse to kick him for everything else he’s done. Turns out when you make enemies of literally everyone on the forum, nobody wants you around—who knew?
Fun fact I lived in africa for several years (Zambia and South Africa mostly)
I’ve seen crazy things, like how zebras broke into our backyard once, or table mountain
I also own a big chunk of malachite I got as a gift from the mining site that I used to live near, since they primarily dug for copper (malachite is oxidized copper and other minerals mixed into it)