Billy Bright, clean as he seems? (NAHT)
Deathtoll32
Hello eUnited Kingdom,
First off, I am a eUK citizen (or will be when citizenship comes). I'm currently abroad fighting in the World War.
Moving on.....
Lately, as we all know, there has been a large amount of controversy surrounding a new character named Billy Bright.He is the Party President of the "British Patriots", which has become a FAR right party.
As some might have noticed, me and Billy had a bit of an argument earlier on in an article from the Thailand President regarding Billy. (what an honor that is).
The argument got pretty heated, and some things were said. Don't worry Billy, I won't ruin your reputation by repeating what you said. I called Billy a racist, and said that he had written a racist article or two back in Erepublik Beta.
I am going to pause for a moment to provide some background. For those of you who don't know Billy Bright, he was originally banned from the eUK Forums for racist remarks towards particular citizens (including now-Prime Minister Hassan). The comments in question:
Conversation One
Conversation Two
Now back to my argument. Billy called me a liar about his articles. He told me to prove him wrong, saying he had never deleted an article ever (and that Admins hadn't either). Evidence that he said that located here
Onward we go, to where things get REALLY interesting. I took a look back through history, as Billy suggested. I really remember him having at least one, if not more, articles containing racist remarks. I at least knew he was likely to have a racist remark.
I found an interesting gap in his story. Take a look.
Here, as we all can see, is Billy's first article ever. It is an article titled "What is far-right?" written 12 months ago, and talks about what far right is. All Agreed?
But.....Is it really? Take a look at one of the comments made my Billy Bright himself.
As you can see in the link in the address bar, it is most definitely the same article written by Billy Bright twelve months ago. Yet, he's referring to an earlier article? How come I can't seem to find any articles written by Billy Bright before that time?
For more evidence Billy is a racist, look here , where Billy admits he's a BNP member IRL (racist party)
You decide
--DT--
Investigative Reporter
Extra Bonus Features!
A new section titled "The Avatars of Billy Bright"
First up, Oswald Mosley. According to Billy Bright, "one of the greatest men in our history". Founder of the British Union of Facists
Next we have Billy Wright. Billy Wright was leader of the extremist Loyalist Volunteer Force
Next came Nick Griffin. A racist, Griffin is chairman of the BNP (British National Party), a white-only party.
Comments
pertamaxxx
It's like all evidence, always gets burned when you are looking for dirt on a person who has racist remarks.
Well, Billy lies, that much is clear. As well as being in the pocket of the americans, although that has yet to be proven.
i think he is role playing a bit there, meh. don't get banned over this. i mean the guy favors corporatism. can you say efascist?
Because I wrote more articles,but still had a discussion in the first one!!!!!!!
I never ever deleted any articles nor did moderators ever deleted any of my articles.
sure...same with iv never ever had fun on teh interwebs
Admins do delete offensive articles.
More proof of Billy's racist comments:
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as our esteemed Kevin Rudd said "Fair shake of the sauce bottle mate."
People really need to calm down a little. So Billy might have made a mistake or two typing someones name... perhaps he thought Hassan's name was Hussein? It doesnt take much imagination to see this may well have been the case.
The Hassan-Hussein saga may well have been an honest mistake.
But the attacks on Squiddy were definitely wrong and indicative of poor ethics and behaviour issues.
Both sides need to grow up a little and move on.
The thing is, he called him Saddam clearly being racist and said that all foreigners names sounded the same so it was easy to get mixed up. Basically calling Hassan Saddam Hussein because he sounded like a 'foreigner'
@Benjani
Do you have any idea quite how racist that remark was? Hassan lives in the UK for a start, in Cambridge no less.
So how about you sort your life out you bigoted little moron.
@benjani. What you said there is actually very racist. Even if he is from Iran/Iraq it doesn't matter. You obviously think they're all bad because of a few extremists.
@benjani Your comment was just plain racist
"look all of u are stupid if ur not with the brithish patriots ur on the foriegioners side which meens ur on the side of evil countrys like Enorth korea or the Eindonesia"
You do realize that you have just called the majority of the eUK population traitors right?
And you do know that Hassan was DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED by the people of the eUK.
Very racist indeed. And you talk about us taking the side of foreigners? You are the ones who are supporting Canada and America (Our enemies!) not us
You are the ones who are supporting Canada and America (Our enemies!) not us
*sigh*
i wont go into that
If he made the mistake of typing Hussein instead of Hassan it doesnt surprise me that he called Hassan Saddam.
Hassan Hussein not too much of a di... ah stuff it.
to save me the bother of rewriting an article of mine i suggest everyone reads this: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-quest-for-sanity-in-politics-the-london-informant-issue-three--696186/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-[..]1/20
right i am leaving the party i am all for leaving peace but a liers a lier
Indie, what I still can't seem to grasp is how you guys can still be so righteous when it comes to supporting your allies. Ok so you left our alliance, no biggie we know it's not for life and maybe you were just that disappointed by us, but we respected you and were willing to help at any time. The thing that really bothers is that not only you left, but you joined our(including yours) sworn enemy, and not only did you join them, but you sacrificed your integrity(territorial, and maybe even personal but that's a saying a bit too much) in order to allow them to go against your ex-friends.
So think long and hard about who your real friends are, and believe me, your role in this alliance will be no bigger, why? because your army is next to none compared with the bigger guys. Do you think Peace will let you keep Canada, or the US, they are using you to defend them, they can take them back at any time. Do you think you will have more of a say than you did in Atlantis? At least there you had the SC and the SG from your nation.
i noticed this and ended in an argument with billy about him having a UDA picture as his newspaper and then Nick Griffin as his avatar... a nice combination of neo nazis and NI Terrorism there.
Now where did I put my matches and pitchfork sharpener...?
Can Romania et al stop feeding Billy's racist trolling. Billy's right to free speech and eUK's choice of alliance is clouding people's judgement. He is a racist and we've got proof of it. Any other comment which does not deal with this issue is waffle.
IndieKid -
"The thing is, he called him Saddam clearly being racist and said that all foreigners names sounded the same so it was easy to get mixed up. Basically calling Hassan Saddam Hussein because he sounded like a 'foreigner' " How is mixing up names racist? How is /intentionally/ mixing up names racist? If you were to approach this objectively, the worst it could be considered is mean spirited. Associating a man with another that is hated by many is lowbrow rhetoric, nothing more. If I called a guy named Afled Heistler "Adolf Hitler" instead am I racist? No, I wouldn't be a racist, I'd just be an insensitive jerk.
If what Billy Bright said was intentional, which I suspect it was, than I think it was in bad taste and deserves an apology. Saying it was racist is a simple case of taking things too seriously and being inflammatory.
You and those like you are watering down the dehumanizing reality of what true racism is with your forum crap and /that/ is far worse a crime than Billy's words.
@Exalted
Perhaps the whole "I support RL Racists and think they're great" kinda takes a role in this one.
Just maybe....
"How is mixing up names racist?" how about the fact he said they sound all the same?
stop sticking up for a racist...only the most uneducated of people are racist because they cant understand that we're all the same.
Some folks have a very broad idea of what constitutes "racism." Apparently, it's anyone who disagrees with them. You'll have more fun playing this GAME if you don't take Billy or yourselves so seriously. No one has a God-given right not to be offended.
If Billy offends your sensibilities, then ignore him. Lord knows I ignore many people on this board - if I didn't, this would cease to be FUN.
I agree with Exalted - don't water down true "racism." Racism is horrible and should not be tolerated anywhere. What BB is saying is not racism. When you say it *is*, people look at it and say "Oy, racism's not half so bad if that's all there is to it." Save your tempest for a bigger teapot.
Good.