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Tue, Nov 12 2013 4:12 PM (17 replies)
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  • davcav67
    2 Posts
    Wed, Oct 30 2013 12:08 PM

    Hello all, never written on here before but feel I must ask if racism is allowed in the chat box whilst a game is in progress?

    I am a white Englishman but play with a black profile, for no particular reason other than that was the first one picked and just got used to it.  Whilst playing a game today, just an average blitz game,  I started to notice a conversation between the 2 other players I was playing with, which went like this. KKK, LOL, KKKKKKKK, LOOL, KKK.  I didn't think much of it at first, just though it was banter between 2 people that maybe knew each other,  then the penny dropped with the KKK thing, and im playing as a black man.  I asked if the KKK comments were aimed at me?, he replied, he didn't know what I was talking about, I asked again. what does the KKK comment mean?, or am I missing the joke? He asked why he would he aim a comment like that me.  at this point, the LOL man had disconnected, I told the KKK man I would report him, but then thought, is this just blatant racism?, or is KKK  an abbreviation of something Ive not seen yet, such as gl all, or ns? do you think I read the situation right?

  • mikelanglois
    36 Posts
    Wed, Oct 30 2013 12:28 PM

    UNBELIEVABLE!! there is no such abreaviation's for the terms that you have described here..it to me is just plain ignorant that someone would use those words against someone in this game..to me it is not something to be taken lightly and i would have reported them to WGT to have them removed from this game..we just don't need this kind of *** going on here in this game. WOW some people's kids these days!

  • WGTicon
    12,511 Posts
    Wed, Oct 30 2013 1:17 PM

    hi

    I would take the screenshots and report them to members@worldgolftour.com. 

    -wgticon

  • jayw4862
    3,364 Posts
    Wed, Oct 30 2013 1:23 PM

    KKK is used only by POS. Just block the players, if you can remember their names. So many people on the internet say so many things that they would never, ever say to a person's face. I tried playing, for a couple of days with a female avatar, and it seems the pervs just want to play so they can talk childish, silly, freak crap. I told one guy I had gonorrhea.....he never said anything else. You see all these "sexy' profile pics and I would a bet $10,000.00 that maybe one in every 10,000 is a actually that person, and only one is every 5,000 is actually a female. And, what's worse is that there are dumb*** men, and women on here who actually fall for those people, and gift them anything they want. I'd rather see those idiots banned than the multi-account players. Sickos everywhere. Don't let it get to you. Just keep enjoying the game.

  • Sca63
    203 Posts
    Wed, Oct 30 2013 5:46 PM

    Respectfully, shame on you if you didn't report them.

  • HWei
    534 Posts
    Wed, Oct 30 2013 6:07 PM

    It's in WGT's Terms of Conditions states in their posting Etiquette rule # 2

    That incorporates vulgar language or which are otherwise offensive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

     

    Use racially, ethnically, vulgar, sexually explicit, hateful, or otherwise offensive language or images.

        For this will never cease to end ,as Abraham Lincoln stated " That all men & women are created equal no matter of race,ethnic,religion etc... But E1 in this world we live on will never know when to stop to see for what we have to cherish for equality for all that no one will ever have , IMHO .

    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

    Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

    But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us -- that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion -- that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain -- that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom -- and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

     

  • frappefort
    3,994 Posts
    Wed, Oct 30 2013 6:56 PM

    Every thing was said here ,  so i can only support  WGT terms and conditions .... Tell yourself ,,,,like i do  ......... 98% of Members here are  peaple like me and you ...Frapp

  • HWei
    534 Posts
    Thu, Oct 31 2013 5:15 AM

    davcav67:

    Hello all, never written on here before but feel I must ask if racism is allowed in the chat box whilst a game is in progress?

    I am a white Englishman but play with a black profile, for no particular reason other than that was the first one picked and just got used to it.  Whilst playing a game today, just an average blitz game,  I started to notice a conversation between the 2 other players I was playing with, which went like this. KKK, LOL, KKKKKKKK, LOOL, KKK.  I didn't think much of it at first, just though it was banter between 2 people that maybe knew each other,  then the penny dropped with the KKK thing, and im playing as a black man.  I asked if the KKK comments were aimed at me?, he replied, he didn't know what I was talking about, I asked again. what does the KKK comment mean?, or am I missing the joke? He asked why he would he aim a comment like that me.  at this point, the LOL man had disconnected, I told the KKK man I would report him, but then thought, is this just blatant racism?, or is KKK  an abbreviation of something Ive not seen yet, such as gl all, or ns? do you think I read the situation right?

    Must know meaning of KKK = Ku Klux Klan .Which to this day still exist 

  • SplashLewis
    362 Posts
    Thu, Oct 31 2013 8:25 AM

    "Black Like Me".  Good book.  should be required reading for all kids.  First person account of a white man who traveled the south (in the 50's i believe) dressed and made up like a black man experiencing the attitude, behaviour and racism spewed at him. 

    You want to reeeally know how Americans feel about minorities?  Go to 90% of the forums, chat rooms, etc and see a 180 of how people act when they can be held accountable.

    I have seen  "comments"  made about me during wgt games (Black Avatar).  Not nearly as often as i do on other forums, games, websites.  Maybe because there is a big percentage of international players and players whose avatar doesnt accurately reflect their ethnicity, so its hard to tell who is what.

    not just on WGT, but ANY game where there is a woman or at least a woman avatar/name, the amount of disrespect is unbelievable.  I sit back and shake my head at the comments.

    wgt suffers more from "perverts" far more than from "racist" or "racist" talk.

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