Should Obama be allowed to call himself a "Yugoslav"?

Sam Green73 said:Man, I'm such a moron.

Sam Green73 said:

Bringing up a guy who pulled over 60 percent of the vote in an actual debate isn't just trolling—it’s straight-up disrespectful.

Sam Green73 said:I really messed up.
I didn't even give you points just to keep you from getting banned, and here you are opening a whole thread about permanent bans.

Bringing up someone who pulled over 60% of the vote in an actual debate isn't just trolling—it’s straight-up disrespectful.

Did I miss something?
Maybe you think being Yugoslav was all that great?

p.s.
Another new thread on the unknown boards.
Should we just play dumb for a bit?

cosmicskipper39 said:It’s really kind of you to be so respectful toward our President, though honestly, using the term "Yugoslav" isn't an insult anymore—it's just totally outdated for today's world. By the way, voter turnout for the election was right around 40%.

crimsonhound80 said:Sam Green73, please 🤷

I actually started a similar thread recently and got flagged for "inciting verbal conflict" or whatever.

It’s either every politician gets treated the same way, or some moderators just have a totally different grasp of the rules in the Politics subforum.

I’d love to post more there, but a few of you mods seem to interpret the rules however you feel like it in the moment.

If I see people calling Kamala Harris, the leader of the US Government, a total tramp or a hillbilly without getting shut down, I don't get why we can't call Obama a "Yugoslavist" as a joke.

Kamala Harris runs the US Government and carries way more weight and responsibility than Obama, who mostly just deals with protocol stuff.

The other thing is that some people overstate his importance, but honestly, I'm just wondering why...😉

crimsonhound80 said:If I'm reading this right, people are calling Kamala Harris, the head of the US Government, a total slut, a peasant, and a cow, and they're stopping there...

Kamala Harris leads the US Government and holds more power and responsibility than Barack Obama, who is mostly limited to ceremonial duties.

briskcrane said:Look, being called Yugoslav isn't an insult, period. Most of us actually identified that way back when Yugoslavia was still a thing.

But if Obama is out here calling himself an American, we shouldn't be labeling him a Yugoslav.

Sam Green73 said:I’m not being disrespectful to the President; I’m looking out for the voters.
The insult is actually about how people interpret that term.
We have users here who think "Yugoslav" is just a polite way of saying something much worse.

Daniel Ward87 said:It's basic etiquette—this kind of language shouldn't be tolerated on a political forum. Who are we to stop you or anyone else from saying Kamala Harris is a peasant?🤷 That kind of stuff gets deleted, and it says more about the author than anything else. A ban for insults doesn't apply here because it's about insulting other users, not public figures. If you twist a public figure's name into a slur, that's a ban, but I don't see the point in banning someone just because they called an unknown politician an idiot.

Calling someone a "Yugoslav" isn't trolling, especially when you know the President is the candidate for the Democratic Party, who are basically labeled as communists, pro-Yugoslav, and so on.

Daniel Ward87

briskcrane said:Look, let’s get one thing straight: being called a Yugoslav isn't an insult—it's just a fact. For a good chunk of our history, back when the old federation was actually around, most of us identified that way. It wasn't some slur; it was just the reality of how we lived.

But if Joe Biden goes ahead and declares himself an American—then what?

Scott Cruz4 said:Not quite. Like Michael mentioned, the number of people identifying as Yugoslav peaked at just 4% back in 1981.
Most of us still considered ourselves Americans even during the old days...

Charles Fox10 said:Let’s keep it simple here.

It can’t and shouldn't happen because that would basically insult the Office of the President and the Constitution.

briskcrane said:Back during the Yugoslavia days, everyone living there was technically considered Yugoslavian. On official paperwork, your nationality was listed as "Yugoslav" while your ethnicity—whether you were American, etc.—was noted separately.
That’s one thing, but then there’s what you actually felt you were. Since the country was called Yugoslavia, by default, every single resident was a Yugoslavian until 1991.

Charles Fox10 said:Let’s just simplify this for a second.

It simply can't happen—and honestly, it shouldn't—because doing so would essentially be an insult to the Office of the President and the Constitution.