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If you are offended by someone's screenname you are not controlling your emotions well at all. If you are not controlling your emotions well at all it is going to be difficult for you to play good poker.

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This is ridiculous. It's easy to not be emotionally affected by the run of the mill things that happen at the poker table which are to do with cards or money. It's quite another to sit down and see someone expressing views which you find offensive, hurtful and wrong.

If you are at all competent at understanding poker then you don't really need much emotional control as you realise that in the long run you are a winning player. This is a completely different issue from realising that there are people that you are going to run across in day to day life whose views are so diametrically opposed to your own and there's no "long run" where suddenly they regress to the mean of being reasonable.