AIBU in thinking that racism is acceptable on Mn but any form sexism is stomped out immediately.

[rosebudyblue]

This is not about Mn HQ but the posters who jump on anyone who sees a racist comment and points it out. Sometimes, if they don't jump on the offended person, they make snide comments about how it's ruining the flow of the thread or starting an argument because everything was going so well. How dare they! Or how people take things so seriously by being easily offended. To me this shows how people are so an aware of racist sentiments that they think their peace is being disrupted. The amount of racist comments in the last two months has been rife.

My understanding is people lack awareness when it's racism related. If a person thinks that it's ok to point out a whole race as this or that in a negative way, How everyone from this country behaves like this and is in a negative way then more likely than not, you are being racist. The most common one I have seen is how people view English people from abroad. This has appeared in the "shower comments" and the "no rinsing dishes" threads and other threads too. People just found it acceptable because what, you can't be racist to white people ?
In the threads referring to black people and racism you tend to find those who dismiss it completely.
Then you have the threads where people are talking about how they have been to a certain country and they stereotype the whole race with the one bad experience they have had by pointing out the characteristics of the people in general in a negative way. use of some racist undertones or innuendos for example in the black women and mental health post.

The worst ones are those that don't even realise they have been racist and when you point out to them they try to be defensive about it. Self editing would be great. Before you write something about a group of people, ask your self if you would say that about a woman, about children or about gay people. If you think that people would find that offensive then it's best to stay clear because it probably is racist.

[MuddhaOfSuburbia]

I've been around here for donkey's years, on and off

I'm at some of the stuff that seems to pass without remark these days

I think mn has really changed- tho as a PP said racism is everywhere at the moment. It's like the boiling frog- we have to be aware

thanks for the thread OP

[kawliga]

But not on threads where someone is discussing racist abuse. Its seen as of great importance to point out that someone once got called a white bitch. How is that helpful to a woman who discussing her boss laughing at her African name?

I agree with this, and everything else MrsDeVere wrote. The only way that experience would be equivalent would be if that poster was called 'white bitch' every day, everywhere she goes, by everyone she meets.