Thank you for making an appeal. We, as staff members on this server, strive for the best for everyone; both users and ourselves. We do often find ourselves in peculiar situations like this one, where one must act with confidence and make sure everyone's getting treated correctly and fairly. I'd like to say this punishment isn't false by any means, and the ethos does not cover racism. Anything that breaks TOU is more or less not covered by the ethos; the ethos is there to serve as a guideline to protect users and staff members alike, and I'd like to say that breaking the terms of service of ZARP is not something that's covered by it.
I'd like to address the ban and the situation more specifically. For starters, I'd like to say that making racist remarks using any ZARP Service is not tolerated by any extent. Moreover, using the private messaging feature of our SSRP server, in a world with absolute values, it would not excuse you from these actions. However, since we don't live in that hypothetical world and it would be hypocritical to say we do, I'd like to say it's rather obvious you did use PMs to NOT offend anyone, which is something that's totally okay in my books, as long as you're not doing anything too extreme. I'd also like to point out that the reasoning for Clarky's ban was not only the racism part, but also the recents and recent ban of yours as well as poor attitude towards him; however, I find you getting banned for racism in this instance something that crosses the line for privacy issues. I'd like to finish this off by saying that you're getting unbanned, but you'll be facing harsher punishments in the recent future (from Clarky, at the very least) since your attitude has been relatively poor.
Consider this;