I can at least confirm one person was offended and that would be the mod who issued the infraction, i have no way of knowing for sure if there were further complaints beyond that.
And i can confirm absolutely the decision was religion based here is the infraction PM and the reason given.
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You already posted the picture of Darwin, point made... but you just couldn't stop there and felt it necessary to post a picture of "EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism
This is a big ass assumption again by the mods, because someone has a particular political view they can't be admired ?
At no point did i say i admired Eugenie for her political views and it's ridiculous to correlate that's why i posted her picture given that the original photo i posted was of darwin the two people never even met or lived at the same time and Darwin had no political agenda.
I admire Eugenie Scott for her work in the field of physical anthropology of which she is a leading figure.
She's the current executive director of the National Center for Science Education in America.
The University of Missouri honored her as a distinguished alumna.
She was elected to the California Academy of Sciences in 1994.
She served as president of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists from 2000 to 2002.
She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2002 and was its chair.
In 1999 she was awarded the Bruce Alberts Award by the American Society for Cell Biology.
In 2001 she received the Geological Society of America's Public Service Award.
She received the 2002 Public Service Award from the National Science Board for "her promotion of public understanding of the importance of science, the scientific method, and science education and the role of evolution in science education.
In 2002 the American Institute of Biological Sciences awarded her the first Outstanding Service Award.
She received the 2002 Margaret Nicholson Distinguished Service Award from the California Science Teachers Association.
The National Association of Biology Teachers gave her honorary membership in 2005.
In 2006 she was awarded the Anthropology in the Media Award by the American Anthropological Association for "the successful communication of anthropology to the general public through the media.
In 2007 She and Kenneth R. Miller were jointly awarded the Outstanding Educator’s Award by the Exploratorium Museum.
She has been awarded honorary degrees by McGill University, Ohio State University, Mount Holyoke College, University of Wisconsin, Rutgers University, University of New Mexico,.
In 2009, she became the first-ever recipient of the Stephen Jay Gould Prize from the Society for the Study of Evolution.
She was awarded the Public Welfare Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 2010.
And all these academic achievements and contributions of which the above are only a portion are to overlooked and she can't be admired because the woman says she doesn't want creationism taught in science classes.
Something by the way i made no mention of or promoted i simply posted a photo of her with a series of skulls.
If i had posted a photo of her underneath some political banner or something fair point but i thought it would be pretty obvious it's her scientific achievements in her field i was referring to not political views given the fact i chose a photo of her with the skulls and not some political rally.
And it's a ridiculous argument anyway to say the photo is offensive because of her political views, everyone in the world has a political view about everything and someone will always have an opposing view and therefore be possibly offended so by the logic used here by the mod and owner any photo of anyone can be defined as baiting or trolling.
Shit half the photo's in the thread were of veterans of the war in Iraq, what's that if not political ?
Another was the famous photo of the protester standing in front of the tanks in Tiananmen square in China, can't get more political than a political protest, i'm willing to bet none of those received infractions.
I can understand why they have the no political/religious content rule but it's a rule that doesn't work, there's no logic to how it's applied it's completely arbitrary, there was no debate or discourse created from the photo i posted so where's the big issue that demands an instant infraction point and removal of the picture.
If any political or religious content warrants this action why was it not applied to the examples i gave above ?
Either these people are incapable of applying a little common sense or they are using the rule to suppress anything that goes against their personal views or they have an axe to grind with the person posting, there is no other explanation.
If i simply wanted to post a picture of political figures i admire i can think of many.
Rosa Parks for here role in ending segregation in the US.
Emmeline Pankhurst for her role in winning the right for women to vote in the UK.
A whole plethora of individuals and organizations that led to the ending of apartheid in South Africa.
I didn't do this because my agenda was not a political or religious one, my agenda was to show my admiration for the advancement of science.
The mods chose to act upon one small facet of Eugenie's life and dismiss everything else.
I wonder if someone posts a photo of Apollo II launching they would just cast aside all the achievements and contributions made by thousands of people without which there would be no apollo program simply because the Chief designer of the Saturn V Werner Von Braun was a card carrying Nazi ?
Or that Arthur Louis Hugo Rudolph who also played a vital role in being in charge of management of the Saturn V project was also a card carrying Nazi and one wanted for war crimes committed at peenemunde and the underground Kohnstein mountain factory?
Under his direct command and request 7.5 million forced laborers were bought in to boost production of V2 rockets, tens of thousands of these workers died under his command because of poor conditions.
Disgusting thoughts to be sure but does this diminish the achievements of everyone who worked on the Apollo missions and made them by and large a success ?
Would the staff ignore all that great stuff and single out these two men for their political views and ban all mention of the program ever on the forum ?
Any sensible person would say that would be a ridiculous thing to do so why do it in Eugenies case ?
Where's the justification ?
I happen to know that at least one member of the presenting team on the show Mythbusters is an atheist and thinks that creationism is humbug and has no place in science, i sure as shit hope nobody on the rpf likes the show Mythbusters, because that's the main focus of the show right everyone knows it for it's anti religious stance not it's entertaining scientific experiments.
I wonder just how many ways there are to demonstrate the stupidity and kneejerk reactionary heavy handed zero common sense approach of the mod who issued this infraction and the owner who endorsed it ?