We are talking at cross purposes here. Your post calling out The Who for a poorly thought out, throw away line, has had exactly the opposite effect to what you originally intended. It (the post) was a poor attempt at humour, that didn't even reach the very low bar of a "Silvertails bad dad joke".
Unless of course your goal was to inflate your own sense of importance, (in your eyes and others as well) by calling the poster a casual rascist. You have effectively magnified the issue by expanding on it publicly, when you had the opportunity to do so privately.
Effective forum moderation can be done subtly or bluntly. In this case accusing a poster of being a casual rascist directly, as you did, was an overstep. Me calling you out on this, is a reasonable response to that overstep. It could be argued that your original response was more about you, then it was about Gordon. I will leave that there though.
I have no interest in dictating anything on here. You are doing an excellent of that yourself.
My whole argument was predicated on practical impactful ways to counter racism in Australian society. Moderating a forum (except in relation to hate speech, Xenophobia and race based bullying) does not, and never will, be an impactful mechanism to counter what is an endemic and systemic issue. The fact that you think it is says a lot more about you then it says about me.
There is a massive difference between hate speech etc and the Who's original post. I just find it somewhat laughable that you are continuing to magnify and exaggerate a non-issue that could have been dealt with effectively via a private message. Personally, I think you owe the poster a public apology, for character denigration. If you had directed that at me I would have been pretty straightforward in my response.
