got a warning for my username

@clousems said in #35:
> You seem to be awfully quick to associate people with ideas that they never said they supported.
Not at all dear, not at all. I am just using your own logic: "all lifes matter" is a true statement isn't it? So since it' s truthful, you should be supporting it?

Or do you not believe that all lifes matter?

@LordSupremeChess said in #34:
> And they don't give him an option to change his name?
On Lichess you can't change your username. That's how it has always been, and I don't think this is gonna change, and especially not because of a funny guy who thought it would be fun to have a provocative username.

@clousems said in #36:
> "Straight Pride" is not really associated with a particular group of people engaged in hate crimes-- it's a social movement. That's a key difference

I'd rather say it's a semantics difference.

@presumably said in #41:
> Not at all dear, not at all. I am just using your own logic: all lifes matter is true isn't it? So since it' s truthful, you should be supporting it?
>
> Or do you not believe that all lifes matter?
Well, sure, I believe that all lives matter. Pretty sure we all believe that. It ain't a controversial opinion, and doesn't mean I dislike Black people who stand up for their rights.

@clousems said in #43:
> Well, sure, I believe that all lives matter. Pretty sure we all believe that. It ain't a controversial opinion, and doesn't mean I dislike Black people who stand up for their rights.
So, by your own logic "being truthful isn't being racist", you should be supporting ALM, since their name is truthful?

@presumably said in #42:
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> I'd rather say it's a semantics difference.
By virtue of your argument being a semantic one, it is a key difference

And look how this thread is going. Lol! Too controversial. Hence why lichess doesn’t like it. They are trying to prevent stuff like this, because clearly people have strong opinions on both sides.

@chesslegendmaster said in #16:
> btw I support the T community u can't touch me

*Deaths Stares*

@LordSupremeChess said in #38:
> A social movement? So, if I wanted to have my name be after the African American movement in the 50's and 60's, THAT'S illegal?? Lichess is seriously tuned out.
I have two questions for you:
1) Do you think every social movements are morally the same?
2) Do you think that Lichess moderators think all sovial movements are morally the same?

@presumably said in #44:
> So, by your own logic "being truthful isn't being racist", you should be supporting ALM, since their name is truthful?

Disengaging-- I've seen how these conversations go.

(But, if you're going where I think you're trying to go, you should realize that your attempt to lead me down that path is flawed by the fact that your inevitable "aha!" moment would be predicated on a) the idea that ALM would by necessity be wholly altruistic and well intentioned, and b) all people who believe in the fundamental value of life would become racist by the end of it. This is because you switched which concept is being considered an indicator).

@clousems said in #49:
> Disengaging-- I've seen how these conversations go.
>
> (But, if you're going where I think you're trying to go, you should realize that your attempt to lead me down that path is flawed by the fact that your inevitable "aha!" moment would be predicated on a) the idea that ALM would by necessity be wholly altruistic and well intentioned, and b) all people who believe in the fundamental value of life would become racist by the end of it. This is because you switched which concept is being considered an indicator).
You're smart in that there indeed was an inevitable aha moment, but not so smart that you could predict correctly what it was.

The inevitable aha moment is that one can very well be racist and yet use a NAME which is, by itself, truthful.

It follows that, from then on, referring to "all life matters", depending on the context, can either be truthful or refer to a racist movement (as you correctly noticed, there is a switch of concept going on here).

The same reasoning of course applies to the NAME "straight pride". This was the content of my post #15, which you felt the need to contradict (maybe you missed the important bit: "in reaction to". I did not claim that ALL the people who have ever stated that all life matters in SOME situation are racist).