MNHQ .. Can we talk about disability bashing?

As i said elsewhere.

Mumsnet. By parents for parents. so long as your child isn't a "spaz"

I can't see how it is a low tolerence. It is just allowing posts to stand unless they are directing their offensive bile spoutings to a specific MNer.

brownsugar - similar here. DS attends a SN school. He has come back to me in tears so many times because he is called "dearswood" (the name of the old SN school in the area) "mong" "spaz" "flid" "retard"

telling me he doesn't want to go to his "mong school" anymore.

He doesn't want to go to the school that have literally changed his life for the better. He doesn't want to go to the school that has managed to bring his academic age from a 5yo to a 8yo (he is 10) in the space of 18 months.
All because the local lads have parents who have freedom of speech. Because they have fought back against those "wooly do gooders" who tell them that such phrases are wrong.

mumsnet isn't the world. But it is a major stepping stone to reaching parents, to getting teh message filtered through to the next generation that such terms are wrong.

Oh.

My.

Jeff.

'You can hide threads you don't like' ??

Really

Why didn't you guys tell me that before?

Good example, swc.
The opinion stuff can be hit & miss but I do like the society section

Hide threads we find offensive? Really? Thats the best they can come up with?

If it's a left wing thing Smallwhitecat explain this thread to me. I've already asked about it.

A woman who was woken up by her a new boyfriend trying to have sex with her. She told him no in no uncertain terms and tried to move away from him. He kept trying to enter her. This was repeated 6/7 times. He kept trying to enter her. She finally managed to get away and 2 months down the line he's still contacting her trying to get her to see him. She hadn't reported it to the police because she thought they might be dismissive. She was told that she gave him mixed signals by sharing the bed with him and that she was basically consenting by being in the bed. The harassment continued for several pages. It reads like trolling with at least one sock puppet. MNHQ actually let it go on and then deleted individual posts rather than scrapping the thread. Someone looking for support got interrogated. It wasn't an AIBU, it was a Relationship thread.

At least the Guardian have bothered their arse to report on the cuts to DLA.

thank feck i'm not a guardian reader.

Err I'll disprove that.
I read the guardian and there's NO WAY i'm soft left.
I just can't abide the Tory shite the tabloids are spouting atm.

Agree 100%

MN need to something about the comments re: disabled people and children on here.

Truly shocking.

If posters make comments about a persons race/gender/sexuality it - rightly - is not be tolerated.

There is "free speach" and there is breaking the Equality and Discrimination Laws!!

you should have done three identical ones mamazon, one with a nigger/ paki neighbour, one with a homo neighbour, and one with a spaz neighbour. i suspect they'll just delete your protest thread and leave the real ones though.

marking thread anyway.

fortunately i haven't seen most of the threads in question.

it is a real flashback to the 70s. the whole spastic thing was blue peter's fault. i often wonder how joey deacon fared after that.

Well done to Smallwhitecat for shoehorning the Guardian into a totally unrelated topic.

Done

can someone report my thread. pretty please.

if its not reported then they will pretend that they weren't aware.

yes even the Police recognise calling someone spastic ,freak reatrd is not acceptable and evne Fb now have a report button for section that talks about disablity bashing .Yet Mnhq do not

Yeah, I ended up arguing with him too.
It's all very well to just say "leave it, ignore it" but I will not let idiots like that go unchallenged.

I will not let people believe that in my silence I am condoning that kind of talk, that it is ok.

just one more thing to add:

I would far rather all the posts stood, whether racist, disablist, homophobic - whatever.

I would far rather know who the wankers are than have a facility where posters can post whatever they like knowing it will be deleted and they can carry on pretending they don't hold these vile views.

This is not new.MNHQ have been letting people get away with this crap for yonks. It's bloody ridiculous. Last summer there was a right twat Bretton something or other who spent the best part of a week posting offensive, inflammatory disablist shit before he was banned.It was the same crap argument then from MNHQ about the educative powers of posters like this . WHY????? People don't need to be covered in shit to know it smells. This sort of stuff hurts too many people. Free speech? In my book freedom comes with responsibilty.