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7 hours ago, SPLIFF said:

This  was motivated by your prior infractions and warning given by other admins during your time here in the community,  not because of racial bias. With the number of prior warnings you have received, the 3 day ban was lenient.  The absolute last thing any admin wants to do is to ban a player, but we can not just turn our back and ignore violations of the rules. 

Number of prior warnings? The only other “warning” I can recall is when I first joined the server and had to change my name. If it was based on number was warnings then why wasn't that explanation provided until now? It seems as though now you are just looking for any excuse to justify your decision. 

Death, you know that the presence of the blue shirts matters flag is blatantly racist in this day and age. The fact that theirs is defensible, but mine is not is really unfair. 
 

I fully aware now that my response is wrong, however no one is taking my concerns into consideration. Rust is not the place for my sign, or theirs, or any other politically motivated sign. 
 

This is ridiculous. The term “ACAB” is not an exclusive term used by skinheads. This term is readily used in opposition to police violence, police racism, and police brutality. 
 

The fact that you find my ACAB sign so hateful, yet so strongly stand in front of the blue shirts matter is really telling. This banning is racially motivated because of this. I’m really disappointed in the RustEz admins decision and when my ban is lifted I will no longer play on any US servers, and will stick to the actually neutral EU servers. 

Hi Death - I disagree with your defence of blue shirts matter - it is indeed a hate group generated as a response to the backlash of police killing countless unarmed black citizens. 
 

My sign is in direct response to the numerous signs that were posted  around the map. Maybe that wasn’t the correct response, so I’ve learned that lesson. 
 

So in response, I’d again like to appeal my ban, and report the blue shirts matter flag as racist imagery, as well as any politically motivated signs on the map. I whole-heartedly agree that political signage have no place in Rust, and request the banning of all other players who have posted such signs if my ban is not appealed. 

Thanks alexanightfire for articulating this so well. 
 

I put the sign up in response to all of the other signage mentioned above. Do you think a POC would feel comfortable seeing blue shirts matter flags and promotion for tr**p2020? I think not. This is a double standard and is setting a poor precedent by basically confirming that blue shirts matter on this server, and any opinions outside of that are “hateful.”  This “flag” is widely known to be anti-black, so your allowance of this image and not mine is clearly racially biased. 
 

I did not want to have to put this up, but it felt like the more images I saw like this on the server, the more it felt like I was playing with the KKK. 
 

I think your rules and guidelines need to be seriously reviewed, and any admins who feel like what I’ve done is “hatespeech” need to check their own white privilege before coming for me. 

I dispute this - if someone can have Trump2020 signs and. Blue Lives Matter flag then I get to counterpoint with ACAB. If I’m banned, then whoever created the Blue Lives Matter flag deserves to be banned too.