: Emma was laughing at everything he said. I was under the impression she found
: it funny. I would imagine he would too if she laughs at it. Not trying to
: victim blame, but positive reinforcement means more of something, not less.

I was there, but not the whole time, and I have a tendency to not hear things or hear them wrong. If I had heard anything I felt was out of line I would've addressed it. That said, I vaguely remember some comments that I thought were kind of out there, but I can't remember what they were, and since no one acted like they had a problem with them I didn't make an issue of it. The situation is being discussed elsewhere. For the record, Community Customs does not support negative comments about people based on sex, race, religion, or anything other than what they do and say.

: Not trying to start a different debate, but he is from the South. grew up
: around the flag. I understand the flag has some hateful meanings, but so
: does the USA flag to other countries. If it ain't directly harming someone
: it ain't bad itself, it's an object.

I thought we addressed that well enough the week it came up and the following week. Personally I believed Spider when he said it wasn't intended to support racism or offend anyone and it was to support the flag itself, and I tend to think as you do that it's an object or an image and it only has the meaning you ascribe to it, but he had to have known that some people who knew what that emblem was wouldn't like it, and to deny any representation of slavery as he did at one point is... not correct, at the very least. I never did find out what "supporting the flag" meant in that context.