Anyone who thinks racism isn't a problem on here obviously didn't see the abuse leveled at a poster just for trying to get black mumsnetters up and running.
Exactly. She literally had to phone the police for god's sake, it's not just hurtful Internet comments.
One of the posters on the 'other' forum (the one the really extreme racists created after being banned from here - and oh what a coincidence that the most active threads there are Meghan bashing threads) photoshopped a screencap claiming to be of a conversation with the poster who lobbied for the Black Mumsnetters section, where she allegedly 'confessed' to being a previously banned troll, with the intention of sending this faked confession to MNHQ in order to get her kicked off Mumsnet.
That's a tremendous amount of work, and shows an extremist level of spite and vindictiveness, just to punish someone you don't even know for the crime of wanting black women to have their own space, a space the professionally offended literally never have to see or enter or acknowledge at all.
The previously banned troll who used to post as rosewhitetips and then NoTheresa (who's been banned more times that Meghan's had hot dinners) went on Reddit to brag that she'd spent hours google image searching every woman who does a particular job and scrutinising their skin tone - basically giving them the paper bag test - in order to prove that a biracial poster was lying about doing that job.
Then there's the poster who brags about having been banned from Mumsnet something like 20 or 30 times, and to have created dozens of new email accounts so she can keep trying to register new accounts.
The time I called Thomas Markle a liar, and someone made about 20 posts in a row that were just deranged insults, literally just "Rose is a CUNT" "Rose is a stupid cunt" "Rose is a shithead" "SHIT FOR BRAINS SHIT FOR BRAINS SHIT FOR BRAINS" over and over and over again, then within the space of less than 10 minutes three brand new usernames all popped up to post variations on "I'm a long-term lurker but am so appalled by Rose's lies and vindictiveness towards Thomas Markle who's clearly a wonderful person that I felt moved to register on Mumsnet just to agree with [insane poster] that Rose is indeed a nasty lying cunt shithead." Then I got attacked for "making the thread about me" when 95% of the posts were made by posters who are obsessed with me because they see me as some kind of Meghan stand-in they can re-direct their racist hate onto.
Absolutely fucking psycho.
There have also been multiple incidences of black posters being doxxed, cyberstalked off-line, and sent abusive PMs.
Someone actually posted my real name and home address in a Mumsnet thread once, literally just posted "Hi Rachel how's life at 123 Elm Avenue" just as some kind of weird threat to show that they knew where I lived.
It just goes on and on....