It's not bullying, as @CatherineOfAragonsPomegranate claims either.
Please stop the gaslighting. You most definitely have bullied posters. The evidence was in my inbox. I had people really upset after being called racists asking me what did they say that was wrong? And more besides.
I am also the evidence, as I often left the thread as if I entered the 'race' debate you would keep stoking up, it would have resulted in the anticipated 'bunfight' and the thread being pulled and that wasn't fair to the hundreds of others enjoying the threads. I said this to others. The evidence is in their inboxes.
The open evidence was also in posts pleading for posters to just ignore you or the thread would get pulled. You. One poster. The threat of answering your goading posts hanging above each thread. There are loads of examples of such posts. Note: there were other dissenting voices but because their intentions were to debate it was not a threat to the thread.
You would wait till the thread had been built up then insert some fake objection then cause an argument resulting in threads being pulled.
MNHQ frankly treated regular posters and long term contributors and supporters of MN with contempt by treating them like children, pulling loads of threads and allowing the same people to derail them again and again and again. Despite the tactics being obvious.
You created an atmosphere where WOC no longer felt they could talk about MM or reveal themselves to be WOC. You shouted over them.
You took it upon yourself to determine for WOC what their terms of reference for racism were and by doing so you absolutely took away their right to discriminate for themselves.
For your information, women of colour come from every culture and have a hugely diverse range of experiences. The term 'Black' or WOC can be useful, but it can be also be used to wash that discrimination away and in my personal opinion this does not happen to any other group of women. Who are you to tell me what I should find racist or not? Or I should engage with or not? Who I can criticise or not?
WOC are intelligent with different opinions. Different experiences and vastly differening cultures. We each personally decide the level to which we identify with predominantly white institutions and or areas of civic life such as the RF, or situations like Brexit. It is highly personal.
There is no one size fits all perspective on any matter even when it seems that way. Even in what is going now with the BLM protests, there are differences of opinion. Levels of engagement that vary. Discrimination and departure over certain points. Some people are good at shouting loudly and preventing the voices of others being heard, so as to give the appearance of monolithic thought.
I abhor this blanketing of personal identity and frankly you do not get it. But you keep pushing forward regardless. So just carry on.
Frankly it is MNHQ mods I find disappointing. Free speech is gone on the site even the feminists have to pussy foot around so as to avoid the dreaded thread pulling over some obvious attempt to create just that end.