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dear sir regarding your forum conditions have you read dossnoffers offering dated 19 march?

If you have a problem with a particular post of a particular person, please report the post in question to the moderators by using the "report this post" button in the post.

Unfortunatly, you've not made it easy for the post you refer to to be found as the post is in the General discussions forum and you've posted some sort of objection in the Toyota family forum instead.

If you report the post to the moderators, along with your specific reasons to not approving of the post, then something [b]may[/b] be done. However, having read the thread, it seems another moderator has already read it and even replied to it but has done nothing about the thread itself. Thus it would help the moderating team if you could let us know what specifically you find racist about the joke.

Thanks (and apologies for the lond winded post)

seems to have been done already, as to what i found racist,have you got a spare couple of hours?

Pedro,

Apologies if any you found any posts on this forum racist and in any way offensive.

As a public forum people have the right to post their own repsonses and feelings within reason and within the rules of the forum.

If you do have any problems with any of the posts on the forum please use either the report this post feature or Private messaage a moderator to review or moderate the topic in question. Please remember that due to the large number of posts on the forum on a daily basis, as much info to the topic title/date/time would be appreciateed so we can easily track the offending post, resolve your issues and take any necessary action...

Cheers
Ryan

i removed the thread...

many thanks rhaines for your courteous reply,was not personally offended,more surprised it was printed.was unaware of report this post feature ,will know in future .cheers pedro

Pedro,

Am sure I am talking on behalf of all administrators and moderators alike on Toyota Owners Forum....

More that Happy to Help.

My problem when it comes to jokes is that I find so few of them funny anymore and I don't know why that is. Then I sit there thinking "was that politically incorrect?, is that why I didn't like it?" and then I move on to the next crisis.

I'm very good at seeing when something is not right when it's one of my residents being persecuted or abused, but when it comes to jokes, I'm as blonde as a blonde thing

Not wanting to split hairs (okay I am) but the 'joke' in question wasn't actually rascist – prejudiced and inconsiderate yes, but race has nothing to do with nationality

For example if a joke were made about English people that would be xenophobic but the English aren't actually a race, now if it were about caucasian's/blacks/hispanics/asians etc that would definitely be rascist.

Any offence taken with any post should noted with the moderators for review.