Scott, stay the fuck out of it. Do you consider flat out racist remarks to be "mildly controversial" after we triple checked, you need to get your head examined.
Malliki, this is Shireroth. We don't solve problems with yelling and insults. We solve problems by talking it out like adults, or by starting a rebellion, or by ragequitting and then coming back two days later, or by blaming them on Erik, or...the point is, we don't start yelling at each other and making stuff worse.
Yeah, CJ said on the chat something along the lines of "All Arabs are terrorists and should die." Sure. He also said in the same conversation "Obama's name is too close to Osama, so = terrorist." He said all black people who act gangster or ghetto should be killed, but SHINE has him on record as saying he loves rap and that his favorite musician is 50 Cent. He's said "all gay people should die", but only on the same survey where he lists his weight as 375 pounds at age 15. One begins to get the feeling one maybe should not take everything he says entirely literally?
In fact, I ran a full SHINE check on his political opinions. He supports the Republicans in the US, and at various times has backed the Liberal Democrats and the UKIP in Britain. His political compass results (obtained at enormous expense) list him as Economic Left/Right: -1.25 and Social Authoritarian/Liberal: -0.26, which would place him as mildly liberal. He's condemned the British National Party as "worse than Hitler" and doesn't show any unusual signs of being fascist.
We also need to consider the context - this is the same chat where Hesam said of (I think it was) Kurds "They're like italians, only they don't look like animals and don't behave like animals. oh, and also, Italians are god damned animals. no, I mean really. They shit while they walk and don't disregard their own waste". I don't think Hesam is racist, but let's just say it's not exactly the NAACP in #micronations. My guess is that CJMiller thought that casual racism was what it took to get accepted.
All in all, I'd say he's a 15 year old with confused but generally libertarian political opinions who thinks it's funny to say scandalous trolling things and thought #micronations was the place for it. To paraphrase Red Dwarf, "The defendant is not guilty of racism. He is guilty only of being CJ Miller. That is his crime. It is also his punishment. The defense rests."
Now, let's move on to what else happened in the chat room (edited to change flow and remove unrelated):
<hesam> CJMiller, are you mildly retarded? Really? I mean, honestly, you could tell me
<cjmiller> Hesam: Yes, I'm pretty sure I told this channel before that I have Asperger's syndrome.
<hesam> same thing
<harvey> Hesam: he's like 8
<cjmiller> And I'm 15 dammit.
<harvey> Oh.
<harvey> Well okay, back to defaulting to retarded.
<hesam> so Asperger's is some type of retard disease? (he waits pensively for the explosion to follow)
<cjmiller> Asperger's is a form of autism.
<malliki> That is, retardism.
<hesam> Just because no one likes you doesn't mean you have a brain deficiency. It means no one fucking likes you because you act like an idiot.
<***cjmiller smacks Hesam***>
<cjmiller> You're just being dumbass elitists.
<malliki> I know some people with Assburgers. Some of them use it as an excuse to be idiots.
<cjmiller> Oh, so now I'm an idiot?
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<cjmiller> You refuse to admit that I am as much a person as anyone else here.
<malliki> CJMiller: You're not a person.
<hesam> actually, I refuse to admit you're a person
<hesam> Sorry Miller, We all have a mutual contract whereby we throw rocks at retarded kids. We can't break contract.
I'm going to come out and say that this sort of taunting of kids with mental disorders as "retards" is exactly as shameful as calling a black guy n****r, and that Malliki et al should be ashamed of themselves. I'd have no problem with it if I thought it was meant to be funny, or if it was someone who could deal with it, but Miller didn't think it was funny and clearly wasn't up to dealing with it at all, so it's very much not funny. I've seen one friend with Aspergers attempt suicide because of online taunting, and I have no interest in seeing another.
