How am I a racist?!?

[Cinderella1]

Still a bit shaken after an exchange with someone on Nextdoor site that called me a racist. Post might be long but don't want to be accused of drip-feeding, so here it is: Original post was about the tragic fire that took the life of four young kids. A neighbour posted this:
"After the tragedy of 4 little boys died in a house fire, I will ask for any single parent which need a help with their kids for a babysitting during Xmas , I am happy to help.
I am not child minder and not insured but I am mum with two grown up boys.

Pls pls do not leave your kids alone". This person then starts asking if she's had a DBS check, etc, so my response is here: "so you think people leaving their very young kids alone for hours is less of a risk than leaving them with a neighbour? This site is not Twitter. What's next - needed a food hygiene certificate and chefs qualifications when helping in a soup kitchen? The whole world will be a better place if we got to know our neighbours better and could ask for help when needed!" , Then him: "not sure what you think your post is about? Please vent some where else where they can understand you. Me: "it's written in British English - apologies for the confusion for those who need to revisit their comprehension skills."Then this from him: "oh sorry being
Welsh I am sorry I’ve offended all you Anglo Saxons as you’ve just offended me" "Racist", "going to apologise for your racism Dora?? Or are you just an Anglo Saxon bigot???" Me: "clearly your geography is as bad as your comprehension. Wales is still part of Great Britain and English is the official language!" Him: "reported to site as clear racism. No we don’t identify ourselves as Great Britain, we obviously have our own Synedd or do you deny that??". AIBU here or is this simply insane? I am not even Anglo-Saxon btw

[quote Cinderella1]@Ilikeanimalsmorethanpeople thank you and sorry, guess that was quite outing [/quote]
Invite me to your nextdoor OP, I’ll give him a few home truths. 🤣

@CharSiu

One of my friends has a tiresome husband who spends his life enjoying winding people up online. He has an incredibly boring job and is a complete dullard. I have no idea what she likes him but each to their own. Sounds like you have come across someone like him. As a total aside DH family name is an incredibly rare ancient Anglo Saxon name.

I'd love to know what that surname is! I don't suppose you'd feel comfortable sharing it but I'm intrigued

Speaking of Anglo-Saxons, this video (& it's sequel) is both fascinatingly educational and amusing in equal measure

@blacksax

Take comfort in the knowledge that one can be both Welsh and a dickhead at the same time.

@Cinderella1

I'm not really a time on social media, so not experienced with Twitter, FB, etc. Nextdoor was useful in terms of finding info about reliable tradesman, etc. With risk to derail my own thread - I would trust a basic DBS check a lot less than my own personal judgment. The police officer who abducted and killed the young woman would've had an enhanced DBS check, I'm sure. Most child abuse happens by close family members, etc. Anyway, my question was how me mentioning British English on a small South London platform can be reported as racist? I responded more to his comment not understanding what I was on about. English isn't actually my own first language so I am genuinely trying to understand how can those words (sarcastic as they were) being construed as racism

South london is hugely diverse and if you'd said British English I'd have raised an eyebrow too.

Someone with far too much time on his hands.

I’m diverse and I would have taken British English to mean as opposed to American English.

Racists tend to just focus on ENGLISH.

@Allmadeoflego
Hate to say this but I think it depends where you live. Mine straddles two areas - and there is a marked difference between the content.

One is all “does anyone know a good gardener”. The other is a hotbed of nastiness.

Yes ours is very much the former. The nearest I can think of to a difference of opinion recently was early last month when a poster was outraged that the display of pumpkins outside her door had been vandalised. Amid all the commiserations was one poster who said "Mate, it's November 6th! " I thought it was funny but it caused lots of huffing and puffing such as "Oh that makes it alright to go on other people's property does it, just because it's no longer Halloween?"

Ignore the people trying to make a big deal out of you writing British English OP, its a completely fine thing to write, they are just as bad as the troll tbh.

Empress it is not an attack, your take is obtuse

Ignore the crank

@blacksax I bow to your wisdom

@tillytown

Ignore the people trying to make a big deal out of you writing British English OP, its a completely fine thing to write, they are just as bad as the troll tbh.

Yes, ignore the many people who are offering you a differing view, and explaining why your comments could be taken in a way that you didn’t foresee. Nothing will ever come of asking for opinions, and genuinely listening to the answers.