It was a post in the WTOR thread, in which he started going off about ethnic radio, including Punjabis and South Asians "scamming the system." There is no evidence that anyone was doing that, and it always seems to be members of certain communities that are being targeted. 

I tried to tell him to knock it off repeatedly, but it appears to be so ingrained in his personality, he was incapable of leaving it alone. I finally decided he'd had enough warnings and that was the last straw. 

First and foremost, I just wanted to say that you're doing a terrific job moderating this forum, RA! It is not an easy task at all.

It is unfortunate that it came down to having to ban SB99, especially given his disability, but from experience, one sometimes has to act tough even under such circumstances, to save the person from themselves.

Good call, RA.


PJ

I'm not entirely sure SB99 was racist or meant to be racist, at least not in the classic, usual sense. It struck me as some kind of intellectual disability where he had trouble with generalizations and categorizations, and not just with race or religion but with things like radio formats in general; which often seemed entirely off the wall. I do think there is a wee bit of truth that different ethnic groups might organize slightly differently around radio, and SB99 might have been trying to articulate something along those lines. Properly articulated, there might have been a point. But his preoccupation with ethnicity seemed endless and was off-putting; though there are academics who study what he possibly tried to talk about. He seemed to make observations and attempts to explain just ended up badly articulated. RA handled this very well, exercising patience and fairness, and SB99 needed to be made aware that his comments were coming across as racist. RA and others tried, and SB99 just couldn't grasp that.

Saul wrote:

I'm not entirely sure SB99 was racist or meant to be racist, at least not in the classic, usual sense. It struck me as some kind of intellectual disability where he had trouble with generalizations and categorizations, and not just with race or religion but with things like radio formats in general; which often seemed entirely off the wall. I do think there is a wee bit of truth that different ethnic groups might organize slightly differently around radio, and SB99 might have been trying to articulate something along those lines. Properly articulated, there might have been a point. But his preoccupation with ethnicity seemed endless and was off-putting; though there are academics who study what he possibly tried to talk about. He seemed to make observations and attempts to explain just ended up badly articulated. RA handled this very well, exercising patience and fairness, and SB99 needed to be made aware that his comments were coming across as racist. RA and others tried, and SB99 just couldn't grasp that.

I agree 100%. I was thinking that but couldn't articulate it.
 

I know it was a hard call for you, but it was the right one.

As someone who's also a board moderator, it's a fine line between stifling useful conversation and keeping one noisy and disruptive voice from taking over an entire forum.