Banned for calling out dogwhistling posts

[DebbieHurry]

Yesterday, there was yet another dogwhistlng, vague post on the lines of " Should I send my kids back to school in September? Social media warns of a terrorist attack". This is about the 5th such post in the last 10 days. All by posters spreading panic and fear. I have reported in the past and MN has ignored it. Posts continue to mushroom.

Yesterday, I posted telling people not to get news from Tiktok and pointed out that there have been a spate of such posts.
My posts were deleted, and then my account was banned. My previous username was @KateMiskin.

Could @MN please explain why they allow blatant scaremongering and dogwhistling on a parenting site when the police commissioner has urged people not to spread rumours? And why my account was deleted? I said nothing offensive or that broke the rules. I have been a member for over 20 years.

So glad people are trying to do something about this. I am barely on Mumsnet now as I got heartily sick of all this 'what do you think about this' faux naive posts that sounded as though they'd been written by an intern from Reform HQ. Ugh.

New one now. New op selling house. Neighbour has put flag up. Predictable responses.

The immigration ones can also be inventive. They don't want to be seen to have an agenda.

How about posting photos of the Lionesses in their England shirts on the flag threads? That doesn't seem to be the kind of flag the authors of those threads actually want to see 😃

I agree that scaremongering threads should be looked at much more closely.

'Life is too sodding short to argue the toss with the hard-of-thinking online."

Or the paid-to-post. Not good for your mental health.

Which bots?

What makes you qualified to determine which posts are ‘faux naive’?

Leave it to MNQH to do the regulation and compliance, not you.

That's a fair point. People might be genuinely thick as pigshit and not merely pretending.

@MrsBennetsPoorNerves
I agree.

I've just reread that - 'possible misconceptions' is an interesting take on disinformation.

Hard agree. I got a post removed for calling someone a simpleton for not bothering to read the article they were busy whipping up froth about.

One thread is now being spammed with every negative report/news story/article/"study" that can be found about Muslim men, the inference being that they are all sexual predators. It is hopeless trying to deal with that sort of tsunami of hate.

This has been going on for a long time. I've complained a few times about the racism and stereotypes and have been informed it's in the news so people will talk about it.

Hate speech is against MN talk guidelines and includes:

Expressions of hatred toward someone on account of that person's colour, race, sex, disability, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion, or sexual orientation.

Branding all Muslim men sexual predators and paedophiles falls under that.

Sadly that's going to get deleted though as it falls under personal attacks. (saying simpleton)
Have to remember to call them out without doing that (I know, I know, funny how that gets deleted straight away but generalising hate for example gets left to stand)

Currently you're not safe on MN if you're anything outside of the 'norm' It isn't a safe space right now at all.

I spent most of the 'spell help' thread on chat trying civil discourse, and had someone post something about murdering witches, which i reported, and it was left to stand.. i had to post on Site Stuff about it and others complain before it was finally pulled. some of the rest was being told to stop posting on MN because witches aren't welcome here... i've been here for 19 years, a witch the whole time.

I don't even want to touch the racist shit on here atm. I already have the christians on here threatening to set me alight.

I'm quite concerned about this. I don't want to support an organisation that doesn't make it clear what behaviour is acceptable and what is not, especially with the political developments in USA and developing across Europe. Giving far-right sycophants encouragement is not on, MN, and that is what is happening on here. Either deal with it in a suitable manner or prepare to lose advertising revenue as a result of complaints by Mumsnetters entitled to expect better and who will shortly be leaving in droves.

I reported one yesterday and told mnhq that it was far-right political propaganda disguised as social comment, but it got left up.

There are too many gullible people about. Some of these OPs are extremely artistically done, and the 'thick as pigshit' (as you put it) readers of those posts fall for it every time, and it just reinforces their misguided beliefs.

The amount of far right rhetoric I've seen repeatedly on here is chilling. Remigration, mass deportation, white genocide, suicidal empathy, Great Replacement theory, Muslims as terrorists, rapists and paedophiles, 'illegals' have low IQ etc Sometimes it's like a BNP meeting round here.

I have given up. It would be a full time job trying to counteract all the shit that is posted. I have hidden most of the threads for now.

It’s difficult to fathom what’s going on in Justine’s head….

That's their MO. They flood the forum and keep repeating the same things.

Yep. They link to the same things too, over and over. Some of it is organised, I am sure.

I reported a post recently for harmful misinformation relating to specific disabilities, and received the same reply, word for word.

“Exchanging views via civil debate” is fine if it’s just a difference of opinion…but if a post is 100% factually incorrect, there is nothing to “debate”.

There’s also no point in trying to educate somebody who doesn’t want to be educated, and passing responsibility for challenging harmful “misconceptions” to people within the targeted group can mean misinformation stands unchallenged….because it’s fucking exhausting and utterly pointless.

I contemplated posting on site stuff when I received that reply, and am glad this thread has been started.

This poster has also been on Reddit posts detailing Mumsnet activity.... Which I always think is a little sinister.