Racism Ban Appeal

[Jamal Hisin]

Steam Name: twotonedrip
Your SteamID32(You can obtain this from steamid.io): STEAM_0:0:175948110
Your Character Name: Jamal Hisin

Ban Length: 2d
Banning Staff Member (@AdminName to mention the staff member): @SpacedSloth

Ban Reason: Racism
Unban Reason: I really didn't consider the questions I asked in help chat to be "racist", however if they were found so I apologize to anyone I might of offended. I will reiterate the questions I asked- question #1: "can i target black people on zombie" answer #1: "you can get banned for that" question #2: "can i target white people on zombie" answer #2: "why are you asking racist questions in help chat" question #3: "how is that racist im just trying to see who i can kill on zombie" question #4: "i just killed two white guys do i have to even it out with two black guys". I am not sure how either question #1 or #2 are racist as they are valid questions regarding the parameters of who you can kill as a zombie, the third question was me trying to say that. The fourth question is the one i got banned after, as I was making sure that I wasn't being racist as a zombie as previously stated. I've seen people mic spam the hard r and get banned for 12 hours, but I ask some questions about a server feature and I get banned for 2d with no priors? I hope that at the least my ban can be reduced , however I'd hope it would be completely appealed but that may be a little too much to ask for. Thanks

Time of Occurrence: 3/27/22 12:22pm pst
Additional members involved/witnessing: @EmmieRose
Read, understood and followed ban appeal rules?: yes

 

[Jamal Hisin]

@SpacedSloth

 

[SpacedSloth]

I'm denying this because you seem to think it's a joke or that I'm really gullible enough to believe you're "not sure" how asking if "can i target black people on zombie" is racist or following that up later with "i just killed two white guys do i have to even it out with two black guys". Normally I address appeals with a system of value, history, context but in this case it's a little more simpler than that.

The thing I'm not sure of, is how to explain that asking if you can target players based on the color of their character's skin is inherently a racist question in itself other than just blanketly saying it. I have trouble understanding why anyone would ever think that question would be okay to ask let alone to follow it up with more lines of race based questioning that you even admitted too.

"I am not sure how either question #1 or #2 are racist as they are valid questions regarding the parameters of who you can kill as a zombie"

The above is respectfully laughable as a defense especially knowing you're not #1 a 12 year old kid & #2 your playtime. These "Valid Questions" that you asked, you already know the answer to, you were playing a game to either annoy the staff or see how far you could push the race button and well, to quote a Tom Clancy novel, "play stupid games win stupid prizes".

As stated above you're not new. To Monolith or to life, your forum posts go back from 2022, 2021, 2020 you've been here and you're old enough to understand context. You certainly know better than to behave that way and from your wording you don't appear sorry after the fact. It appears as feigning ignorance or potentially/sadly actually thinking you were just innocently asking a question in this matter. If it's the latter, even if your only goal was to annoy staff in !help, I would strongly advise talking to people in your real life about casual racism as if you truly don't understand what you did wrong here, behavior like that will certainly affect your real life much more than Monolith would.