[UKPP] - A Statement on Recent Events
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by Sambo112
Recent 'indecent' attacks on our party and its members have reached a point that is certainly crossing the line between RL hate and in-game fun. Due to incidents on the 'original' forums, the #eUK channel and in articles and comments, we advise all UKPP members to pause, take a breath and consider refraining from posting on the 'original' forums and on #eUK.
Still interested in having a chat while the 'fall-out' occurs?? Then come visit us on our IRC channel and the UKPP forums
IRC: http://miburl.com/4CA3GM
Forums: http://z13.invisionfree.com/eUK/index.php?
The UKPP has an active and welcoming community on its personal forums and IRC channel. If you want to be more active and take on more roles inside UKPP then these are the places to be. A place of freewheeling discussion from all things game related, to how helpmeslack will never get that BT girl and to what's down Lauren's pants today.
Look its a cat picture!!!
[Important]- This is a 'advisory' notice only and the UKPP does not hold or wish to hold any claim over your right to free speech and congregation.
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That is all for the article, feedback is welcome and getting as many votes as possible will allow more people in UKPP and any other potential members to see it. Remember to check out the External Affairs here: http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/ukpp-external-affairs-227492/1 and the UKPP PP's paper here: http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/nationalist-times-254956/1
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Sambo112- UKPP Media Manager/2nd Commander of the Royal Navy/UKPP vice Party President
GTorge- UKPP Media Manager
Sir Nick Griffin- UKPP Party President
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Amen reverand o/
I HAVE A CHANCE!
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bloody brilliant
Cos that's definitely gonna help.
What a groundbreaking response from the UKPP.
The cat picture made the article. keep up the good work .
Hope he cleared it with the minister of Kittehs!
Keep splitting the country UKPP - well done *Clap Clap Clap*
Well BigAnt, As tempting as the prospect of joining in the hate-fest and flame wars are...........
Hate fest and flame wars. How many people have you made leave the game today Alfa? I'm on 0, again.
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I wasn't there but couldn't, ya know, just ignore the people that are giving you a hard time? I know, I know...it's a really radical idea.
Why should we be given a hard time in which we then have to ignore it?
Splitting the community? The Government is encouraging people to move aboard. How are we by having our own forum due to inflammatory comments from certain eUK people splitting the non-existent community?
Every country needs a scrapegoat, someone to blame when the failings of others become apparent.
The hypocritical section of the eUK is doing more damage then we could ever dream of causing.
What's a scrapegoat? 😉
TUP proving once again that instead of engaging in debate and helping get new ideas on the go, they flame and belittle. Well done TUP. You're the reason the eUK is in such a sorry state.
Meh my poor spelling and laziness to spell check coming to the fore.
Because things in this game are super serious so being the bigger man and just ignoring them is out of the question. And hypocritical section? I see hypocrites true, but they're on both sides of the spectrum, not just 1.
I've just joined the game why do people hate this party?
Apparently we are the reason that the eUK is in the state it is. According to some Government officials.
'we advise all UKPP members to pause, take a breath and consider refraining from posting on the 'original' forums and on #eUK.'
So if something happens you don't like, the message is to retreat further?
No but to take a second to give your post a second thought.
Elliot Brown -
It is called the Godwin Law argument...
The party has an MP called Sir Nick Griffin who is clearly named after the leader of the BNP party in the UK. The BNP, like the English Defense League are considered to be a load of Nazis and Fascists. Most key member of the BNP in real life are basically thugs with criminal records to prove it...
Because there is a prominant MP in the UKPP party called Sir Nick Griffin, it therefore means that everyone who has ever been in a political party containing Sir Nick Griffin is therefore a real life right wing extremist who go around beating up ethnic minorities. Ahem...
Sir Nick Griffin (in game) claims the name was selected as a joke or to be ironic or playing devils advocate or something. Comments have alledegly been made suggesting he does agree with the general politics of the real life Nick Griffin. Many people would never vote for Sir Nick Griffin in game as they don't find his name "funny".
The issue that many in the party disagree with is that all members are branded with the "Nazi" branding that someone calling themselves Sir Nick Griffin clearly would. In terms of the Godwin Law argument, basically people outside the party have been implying that because Hitler would approve of the party, then anyone who defends or votes for representatives of the party are probably the sort of people who deny the holocaust...
It is argued that if you allow someone called Sir Nick Griffin in your political party then you must agree with the extremist views the real life Nick Griffin argues. Where the UKPP disagree with this is the notion that it is irrelevant in the game. None of the racist policies that the BNP would try to make law in real are possible within the framework of eRepublik and no one in the UKPP would call for such options int he first place.
Policies and ideas from the UKPP are often dismissed regardless of merit. The UKPP has been branded racist on the grounds of one member's name and demonised.
@-roz- I believe the message is to ingore the people which drag us into these 'fights'. to 'take a breath' before getting invovled.
>"'we advise all UKPP members to pause, take a breath and consider refraining from posting on the 'original' forums and on #eUK.'
So if something happens you don't like, the message is to retreat further? "
As sambo112 says - The advice was to 'let things go' for a few days before resuming your regular activities in regard to #eUK and the 'traditional' forums (if any members still use them - and a few still do)
Wow people seem to take this game way to seriously. I mean it's not like you even have a race in this game.
I guess some people just don't know where the line of RL and 2nd Life is, as a work situation would describe it. They are beinging their home life to work and as such bringing their problems to the work place. So in this case they are bringing thier RL issues and trying to look big when making themselves look like idiots and then trying to apply a RL persona to someone with no evidence of that persons beliefs. For all we know they could be a closet BNP member themsleves and just trying to deny the truth to themselves and mask it be lashing out against their own views.
Yes you can have your views, but don't try and drag everyone down casue you're haivng a bad day, just play nicely children.
I saw one thread, that Eno himself started. You're "retreating" over one thread instead of clicking the "Mark forum read" button and moving on?