Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2016/08/25

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Subject: [Leica] Words and Images that got me banned on LFPF
From: jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2016 06:07:18 +0530
References: <CAF8hL-HQK-r3P0Z41i4QVXwbkd3G2kG1dgH-K4k70WPk3HQu2A@mail.gmail.com> <7384E240-9F79-4989-990B-BA0F90CD9B6D@cartersxrd.net>

Ric,
I agree 100% with you. It is idiotic. However,  this is the season for 
peculiar views in the USA overall, it seems to me! :-)

Richard, if I were you, I would not impose where I am not wanted, and just 
go somewhere else.

Cheers
Jayanand

Sent from my iPad

> On 26-Aug-2016, at 03:13, RicCarter <ric at cartersxrd.net> wrote:
> 
> i thought it telling that ?moderator? assigns transexuals and speaking of 
> them to the same group as Nazi, KKK, and ISIS
> 
> a peculiar twit for sure
> 
> ric
> 
> 
>> On Aug 25, 2016, at 4:29 PM, Richard Man <richard at richardmanphoto.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Yup, I am now banned, where a long time user who sent a PM to another user
>> calling him a "fag" and is still active and a moderator made the following
>> comment and neither he nor other moderators apologize for it:
>> http://richardmanphoto.com/web/ralph_barker.JPG
>> 
>> So what is so dangerous? Words, words and stories from people like Eli.
>> BTW, Eli is local to my community.
>> 
>> Eli will be entering college in a few days. Even when he was growing up, 
>> he
>> had always been uncomfortable about not being able to do "boy sports" and
>> other "boy things". He was enrolled at a local all-girl Middle/High School
>> in 6th grade, but finally understood at 13 that he was actually a boy. It
>> was a difficult realization - not because of other people's reactions, but
>> because of the internal processing of the things he knew he would have to
>> face. Fortunately, both his parents, his friends, and the school were very
>> supportive of his decision. The "coming out" process took a while, but he
>> has been feeling much happier now that he can finally be who he is.
>> 
>> http://richardmanphoto.com/PICS/20160813-Scanned-1673.jpg
>> 
>> ***
>> If Eli has the courage to be part of the project, then I need to step up
>> and stand up to censorship.
>> 
>> -- 
>> "Some People Drive, We Are Driven"
>> // richard <http://www.richardmanphoto.com>
>> richardmanphoto on Facebook and Instagram
>> <https://instagram.com/richardmanphoto>
>> 
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