With respect, I don't think it is working at all.If our current, looser approach to this thread isn't working, we will have to moderate this thread more strictly and come down harder on all banter on all sides.
People are continuously making inflammatory blanket statements (sometimes politically charged) about nations and their peoples without a second thought and I've seen just about enough of it and it feels like I've been begging for mod intervention for the last 2 weeks.