Discrimination on Mumsnet

ooh mine's massive!
I get carried away though and get deleted

I do think MNHQ needs to be a bit more aware, it shouldn't always be down to posters to police the site.

This is the only way that posters/posts will be policed. MN isn't a moderated site, and there are far, far too many posts for them to be able to read them all! It does, therefore, come down to all of us to report when we see anything that is against Talk Guidelines.

It's social commentary unfortunately.
There are Benefit Scroungers and Benefit Cheats.
No genuine clients just opportunist grabbers and fraudsters.

Benefit and Social housing threads always get my dander up.

I do think MNHQ needs to be a bit more aware, it shouldn't always be down to posters to police the site.

But this site is massive.

There's no way HQ can sit and read every post on every thread. The only possible way is for members to report.

I think it's better to report the individual threads or posts rather than starting a new thread about them.

my experience of mumsnet is that it is generally very supportive of people on benefits: typically people are very helpful in advising disabled and ill people on how to get through pip and ESA assessment interviews, and how to ensure they are getting all they are entitled to when it's clear they can't get money except via benefits.

yes you will see an occasional poster asking why they can't get a job if it's not clear why someone should be supported by the tax payer. that's not discrimination. in the absence of a disability or carer status which are incompatible with earning (and plenty of people with such issues are entirely capable of earning anyway) it's a fair question.

I'm a single Mother and I'm sick of the stereotyping and someone who knows someones cousin up the road who's getting thousands and all the other acusatory nonsense blah blah!

So I suggest a link to the government rules be posted to the top of every benefits bashing thread so we can all sort out the bullshit from the actual
As per

www.gov.uk/government/publications/universal-credit-and-you/universal-credit-and-you-a

I’m sure MNHQ will say they rely on users to report and always delete when they see discrimination.

Not sure they can do much else really

And yes BIWI you make a good point too.

The problem might be that people leap to decry disabled people making fraudulent claims , ignoring different types of benefits*. OP you have a point.

*This makes sense in my head but it has been a Bit of a Week and I'm awfully tired.

Are you reporting the posts you see? IME MNHQ are pretty responsive in deleting things that are discriminatory apart from age discrimination which sometimes they seem blind to

To be fair, HQ can't read every thread, so they obviously rely on members to report.

To be fair, there have been a number of programmes on TV that have shown people scamming the system, which probably impacts on people's perceptions. Anything unsuitable gets deleted though, so I think YABU.

I don’t have a problem with people claiming benefits - my attitude is “ there but for the grace of god”. I don’t presume everyone is claiming fraudulently and I’m not generalising about benefit claimants as a group.

The biggest perpetrators of disabled benefit fraud are the government whose dishonesty deprives disabled people of the benefits they're entitled to every single day.

Growingboys my husband is disabled and I have seen plenty of threads about people faking their disability etc. Plenty. Mumsnet will be aware of some of the threads as they have deleted a number over the years.

So they do delete them then?

Is the problem that you think they're not deleting enough of them when you report?

I didn’t say there were lots - but you do see them in newspapers. I have no idea how anyone would put a figure on how many fraudulent claims there are... either figures are estimated or they’re using conviction rates.

MNHQ Have always been pretty good at deleting such threads in the past, often on the grounds of 'not in the spirit' and/or not supporting parents. Has that changed?