Active discussions

Please or to access all these features

Talk
Site stuff

Join our Innovation Panel to try new features early and help make Mumsnet better.

See all MNHQ comments on this thread

Original poster

MN allows racism to stand

605 replies

amillionyears · 13/11/2012 14:50

I have reported it 3 times today, 1 before 9am.
Heard nothing from them.

OP posts:
Original poster
amillionyears · 13/11/2012 20:39

I did look up xenophobia when someone posted it.
It didnt look relevant to all this.

OP posts:
BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 13/11/2012 20:39

you make a lot of assumptions, dont you?

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 13/11/2012 20:38

and its still not on to name them. I didnt follow the link, I wouldnt have known who they were. what gives you the right to "out" people for being racist (esp when they werent) on a separate thread.

scottishmummy · 13/11/2012 20:38

if mn were to triage calls I'd suggest
priority
important
moderate
wind & Pish eg mad as box of frogs level

MooncupGoddess · 13/11/2012 20:38

A nation is a country - e.g. France, Morocco, Botswana.

A race is an ethnic grouping -e.g. white, black, Asian, Native American.

There isn't a word for being nation-ist in the way there is a word for racist, but people tend to use 'xenophobic', which means 'fears/hates foreigners'.

Moln · 13/11/2012 20:38

Hold on a minute. Chickens eat frogs?

Or do they just maul them? There's an evil side of chickens. Who knew!

AmazingBouncingFerret · 13/11/2012 20:38

Oh ffs crapslock.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 13/11/2012 20:37

Boffy you took the words right out of my head! wasjust reading to the end and was going to post "I AM CANADIAN!"

tHIS IS TOTALLY LIKE THE SUPERSOAKER THREAD WITH ADDED DRUNK-LIKE MARDINESS.

Original poster
amillionyears · 13/11/2012 20:37

I assume people read links that people post.
Do they not?
Are links pointless?

OP posts:
BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 13/11/2012 20:37

ilove, the person who was called "mad as a box of frogs" had, on a different thread, made reference to her dc's being in the french school system. the link is tenuous at best, and amillion is desperately trying to see offensive behaviour where there is none.

ScrambledSmegs · 13/11/2012 20:37

NO ONE except the OP thinks 'mad as a box of frogs' is racist. Or xenophobic.

She just seems to have a history of getting the wrong end of the stick, making sweeping accusations and refusing to admit that she's wrong.

Original poster
amillionyears · 13/11/2012 20:37

LtEveDallas, yes I did name them after usualSuspect did the link.

OP posts:
Original poster
amillionyears · 13/11/2012 20:36

No , Hully said she thinks I think that I am right.
iyswim

OP posts:
Portofino · 13/11/2012 20:36

You do seem a moan a lot for someone who likes it here. I have been here a while and every never seen the need to complain about the rules. It is a website.

RudolphUcker · 13/11/2012 20:35

Is this Hully's fault?
I thought so.

BlameItOnTheCuervHoHoHo · 13/11/2012 20:35

here this explains the difference easily.

and

amillionyears Tue 13-Nov-12 20:32:49
sm,if there was racism against you on MN, are you saying you are happy for it to stand for at least 6 hours

BUT IT WASNT RACISM, OR XENOPHOBIA! IT WAS THE USE OF A COMMON SAYING THAT IS A SIMILE

Chubfuddler · 13/11/2012 20:35

BUT IT'S NOT RACISM

it might be an unacceptable slur on the mentally ill but it's NOT about the bloody French. It's about actual frogs in a box which are cross.

Original poster
amillionyears · 13/11/2012 20:35

Really PetiteRaleuse?
That is interesting.
So you think it is ok to go to France, and call them frogs?

OP posts:
scottishmummy · 13/11/2012 20:34

do you work?do you understand in a busy day,same day response is good

LtEveDallas · 13/11/2012 20:34

Oh and you did name the posters - your post of 1829

"I still stand by that. I think ImperialStateKnickers and TuftyFinch knowingly and intentionally posted ethnic slurs."

ilovetermtime · 13/11/2012 20:33

I'm really, genuinely, confused as to why anyone would think that 'mad as a box of frogs' is racist. Is it purely because one of the posters who used the expression has kids at school in France??? Or have I missed something?

MmeLindor · 13/11/2012 20:33

amillion
Where did Hully say you were right?

Original poster
amillionyears · 13/11/2012 20:32

sm,if there was racism against you on MN, are you saying you are happy for it to stand for at least 6 hours?

OP posts:
LadyBeagle · 13/11/2012 20:31

What 90% is that amillion?

BoyMeetsWorld · 13/11/2012 20:31

I'm confused now. We're 'frogs' lol & I wouldn't have thought that expression was aimed at french people? Was I just being naive?

Swipe left for the next trending thread