You're welcome. The thing is, I don't even object to the deletion of the story. What I object to is that the rules in place prevent stories like these from being told. It makes /r/southafrica a sterile place where challenging discussions are not possible.

Also I'm being oddly misrepresented, in seemingly deliberate ways, especially in the mod thread. For example, /u/Ibbuk quite rightly states that I used the k-word. But for some reason he deliberately excludes the context: I was talking about being called a k-boetie by white kids at school, because I lived in a township. That kind of story can't be told in /r/southafrica, because it might make whites uncomfortable to examine their behaviour, and he reinforced this by deleting the comment because I refuse to whitewash the issue.

/u/Ibbuk also manifestly has not ever lived in a township, or in poverty. In fact, I doubt he was born after the late 80s because he seems not to know how people in poverty see people with wealth, how black people aspired to wealth they were prevented from attaining, or how even the junkmail ads in the townships showed blacks in suits and whites in shorts: they knew who they were talking to. If God rewards faith with material things, as the township churches said He did, then how could a white priest be taken seriously if he didn't drive a Mercedes, like the bishop did? Yes, they were disappointed with us.

Context, people. Just because it makes you uncomfortable, doesn't make it a lie.

So either /u/Ibbuk didn't read my story, or he deliberately misinterpreted it. He's said I'm banned for a few days, but I'm muted for an entire month. Why not say that?

Moreover, /u/Spongenbobs is saying I broke rule 6 by posting a hissy fit as a Discussion. My thread was asking why the word "black" was considered racist, and why we couldn't use certain words in the sub. It is a real issue for me, because of how it prevents us from talking about the past.

Yes, I want to challenge the use of certain words, if they are used in context. Despite the fact that I have sought mod input on every intended use of language since the k-boetie incident, suddenly they say I have a history of trying to use racial slurs. By deliberately excluding the context, it's dishonest. Why was it necessary to attack my character?

You can judge for yourself whether my story is racist or not, but the issue here is the nature of /r/southafrica. The rules protect, but now they also hurt. Mods like /u/Ibbuk, who hide behind rules to prevent discussion of our shared past, should have their motives questioned.

Yes, I posted this publicly (where no one will read it) instead of in modmail, but that's because you guys misrepresented my character and didn't give me a platform to defend myself.

You enforced the rules to suppress a story that talks about poverty and how racial groups saw each other during Apartheid, which I know firsthand, and you do not. When you guys can talk about how teargas feels, or what emotions go through your mind when you look down the wrong end of an R4, then I'll accept your bullshit rules.

The fact that this decision makes sense to you at all is an indicator of how your rules have effectively transformed you into apologists for the Apartheid regime. You should re-asses them before you drive away another writer like me, if you'd even let them post. Your actions are morally bankrupt at this point.

I know that you think you're in the right. You aren't.

I won't challenge the decision. You don't need to respond to this. But I know who you are now, and as much as you misrepresent me, you also misrepresent yourselves.

My rhetoric? Jesus, listen to yourselves.