why was this thread locked?

because it was fucking lame, no offense

I respectfully disagree with your opinion, Jim. Historically, these conversations on ILM have generated heavy discussion, and the fact that new threads involving the subject seem to constantly crop up suggests that there is further interest in the subject matter beyond what has already taken place. My goal in the thread was to form an exhaustive compendium of race relations dialogue and discussion on ILM over the years. The significant parallels between these threads in terms of intellectual and philosophical discourse warrants the existence of a singular platform from which we can easily navigate between these arguments and discussions. I disagree with your idea that it is "fucking lame," and would further like an explanation of what you found "fucking lame" about it, or what about it required administrative suppression.

not to get off on a tangent here, but there any actual black people on ilm or is everyone, as i suspect, grossly overweight white guys whose lives revolve around making unceasing pop culture references in between having reductionist arguments and scarfing handfuls of cheetos and mashing their stubby fingers against their powdered-cheese encrusted keyboards, all the while championing their enlightened and sophisticated attitudes towards all genres of music (excluding world music, fuck that shit), including top 40 and hiphop, the latter of which is so far removed from their sphere of existence that if a real black man even approached them, they'd be paralyzed in fear and most likely shit their pants?

-- punis (ad...), May 11th, 2006.

punis, compile the list of threads yourself - then upload it elsewhere and post the link here. no further discussion needed.