How about a campaign where the users get MNHQ staff to take diversity training?

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MNHQ themselves have displayed ignorance (at best) over the last few months and prejudice / discrimination at worst when dealing with certain situations.
For example Justine, the sites owner herself over the last few days has made some very ignorant and damaging comments about diabetes.
We have seen the same with many times with Racism too as well as low level disablism.

Unless you are white, middle class and able bodied HQ isn't a nice place to be.

Post here if you would like this to take place. HQ need training and they need it fast.

This would be Jason with Autism and communication disorder who didn't understand what the word miscarrying actually meant and spent the rest of the thread apologising and emailed MNHQ to ask to be deleted.

Which is understandable on a thread about people who use the site with disabilities, that you'll get people with disabilities responding.

And Jason has a long site history, so certainly didn't make the fact he has this disability up, as others suggested on the thread.

I remember he also asked if a donation to a miscarriage charity would be a good thing to do?

He was unfairly banned MNHQ failed you both that night and shouldn't have let the thread get into that state.

I'm Javabeansaintgeorge by the way, I unregistered, then re-registered.
If there's a way to get my old account back let me know.

Anyway, I won't be excusing his behaviour.

Neither did he, he emailed HQ and asked to be banned... then publicly apologized on the last disablism thread for what he had done.

And then was banned for his conduct. It was appalling.

And then was banned for his conduct. It was appalling.

Yeah fuck him.

Yes, fuck him indeed.

I don't want another one of my weekends ruined by MUMSNET, so my last post on that particularly awful situation for anyone reading this is that I don't want anyone to think he was banned unfairly - he wasn't. His comment was disgraceful, and Hq agreed.

If anyone wants to argue that fact just remember I am real person and that weekend something dreadful happened to me and what he said will forever be stuck in my mind - so please, if you want to reply to this thread please consider my feelings when you do so.

Not sure why Mumsnet is in capitals..

This is why these threads shouldn't be on site stuff. This is why MumsnetHQ should be able to do conversations over emails.

It's a site failing.

I just want to add that I remember that thread Waitrose and I don't think he was unfairly banned either. Although I think he was almost begging to be banned for it so quite why he didn't just leave the thread and deregister himself I don't know.

I don't think it was an unfair ban either. I also remember that he wasn't trying to open a private dialogue with MN about disablism, he was threatening legal action and that's what his letters were about. That's what I saw on one of the threads anyway.

Yes. He was approaching a legal angle after years of trying to open a dialogue.

As I have done and countless others.

I don't think it was an unfair ban either. I also remember that he wasn't trying to open a private dialogue with MN about disablism, he was threatening legal action and that's what his letters were about. That's what I saw on one of the threads anyway.

He also stated on a number of threads that MNHQ deliberately left up hate speech in order to get more clicks/viewers/advertising revenue.

I suspect that there was a long backstory to his banning, and his behaviour on that last thread was merely the final instalment.

I think you are probably right Maud

I think MNHQ are perfectly capable of keeping up with legal obligations without having to be harangued by email.
It comes down to some users of a site wanting absolutely everything to be just as they think it should be, whether that be wrt disability, trans issues or anything else. The debates are always worth having, but the outcome may not be that every suggestion is then taken up by the owners of the site and cast in stone for evermore.

I remember the thread, Waitrose I hope you are recovered from your miscarriage 💐

It's important to say that any banning or flouncings were self inflicted - so that the truth of what happened doesn't get lost with the passage of time (or the stories are spun to look like anyone was forced out unfairly)

It's probably fairly safe to assume that the second just one person mentioned "legal" MNHQ would have checked that out immediately. So I'd guess a lot of the 'ignoring' is probably MNHQ refusing to engage with empty threats.

No Dixie, I didn't name call - that's not what I do. You've got that wrong.

My posts were deleted because they quoted previously deleted posts.

Seperately to this it does seem like there would be a great business opportunity to set up a specialist forum for those with disabilities and their families - it could have all sorts of expert guest blogs, practical help and support, get sponsorship from charities etc etc

Someone should do it

Whatever you say, Dixie.