User talk:Lemurs are the best

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July 2020
This is your only warning; if you vandalize Wikipedia again, you may be blocked from editing without further notice. CLCStudent (talk) 12:32, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for abuse of editing privileges. If you think there are good reasons for being unblocked, please read the guide to appealing blocks, then add the following text below the block notice on your talk page:. Materialscientist (talk) 12:39, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

Unblock discussion
To the reviewing admin: grossly violated NPOV but doesn't seem like vandalism.  Java Hurricane  14:50, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * From reviewing admin. User is not blocked for vandalism. Blocked for disruptive editing, which "grossly violating NPOV" includes. Which, by the way, has not been addressed. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 16:04, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't even see how it "grossly violates NPOV". It's a more restrictive definition of "whitey" than is usually thought of; at least, I always thought "whitey" was an ethnic slur directed at all whites, not just racist whites or the rest of the characterization this edit put in. How in any way are these two edits worthy of an indefinite block? --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 16:54, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Messaged blocking admin as they do not respond to pings. -- Deep fried okra ( talk ) 17:02, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
 * Well, it certainly was soapy and changed the content from what the source said. Perhaps if could address those edits we can unblock. And indef lite has a certain utility. Indef is not infinite.. -- Deep fried okra  ( talk ) 17:07, 15 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Per MaterialScientist-- "Feel free to unblock them at will (perhaps after hearing their explanation). Evaluation of those edits is indeed not straightforward." -- Deep fried okra  ( talk ) 18:14, 15 July 2020 (UTC)


 * Thank you for listening and sorry for being bad at wikipedia. "whitey" is a term that I think is only (or mainly) used by people of colour, and i am a person of colour and i would only use that term to describe white people who are racist or part of the white-dominated system which is institutionally racist. I would not use the term just to be hateful to a white person for no reason or if the reason was something other than racism - only if I thought them to be committing an act of racism. I live in England which is predominantly white however people i am friends with are not "whitey" and people i dislike for reasons other than racism are not whitey. i would use this to describe white people in the government (which is institutionally racist) or someone who i witnessed committing racism towards a person of colour. Some white people are oppressed by the white-dominated system (Irish people, Polish people, etc) and they are not whitey. Apologies as I don't know the ethnicity of my fellow editors but it is my opinion that this term can only be defined by those who use it i.e. people of colour. Potentially also oppressed white people but I am not one of those so do not know if they use the term whitey] --Lemurs are the best ( talk ) 14:33, 16 July 2020 (GMT)
 * As far as Wikipedia is concerned, the term is as defined by reliable sources, not our personal opinions of who should define it. How anybody, individually, uses the term is not something Wikipedia is interested in. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 14:36, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
 * a reliable source is Maruse Heath from the New Black Panther party who has a tattoo that says "kill whitey" however he does not kill, or want to kill every white person he meets. His party upholds the legacy of the Black Panther Party who's aim was to monitor the behaviour of officers of the Oakland Police Department and challenge police brutality in the city. i.e. challenge institutionalised racism. Whitey in this case refers to institutionally racist police in geneeral, not a specific white person. Another reliable source is the song "Whitey on the moon" by Gil Scott-Heron. He sings about the dominating white system rather than a specific white person. Are there any examples of whitey being used in a way that is not a reaction to the experience of people of colour being oppressed by a dominating white system?  --Lemurs are the best ( talk ) 16:09, 16 July 2020 (GMT)
 * Please read up on reliable sources; the expression has a very important meaning on Wikipedia, and does not include our personal observations and analyses. --jpgordon&#x1d122;&#x1d106; &#x1D110;&#x1d107; 17:11, 16 July 2020 (UTC)