How we deal with racism and hate speech on Wrong Planet

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A boong is a derogatory term for an Australian Aboriginal.

That’s what I want, too—equality.

I’ve been at my job almost 40 years. Most of my co-workers are either black or Hispanic. My supervisor is black.

This really isn't complicated and shouldn't be controversial. Racist words are not to be used, racist imagery is not to be used.

If a post seems racist, it is better if you say 'that sounds racist' rather than 'you are racist'. But if someone in the heat of the moment says the latter, they will not be in trouble over it.


There have been some threads in the past where a few men expressed misogynist views and some of the women got really upset and when they reacted, they went too far out of frustration, and the threads would get locked and no action taken beyond that. While still not perfect, that situation is better now than it was


So I think it's a good thing if the actual problem will be dealt with now, so maybe we can deal better with racism on here than we have sexism.

Lots of really good notes here.

I think my main takeaway from Alex’s list of suggested rules will be that if someone genuinely says something racist, then someone calling them a racist in response is not an issue.

I do think it is preferable to say “what you said is racist” to “you’re a racist” or something like that, and would encourage users to always focus criticism on the behaviour rather than the individual. But at the same time, if a user sincerely feels they are witnessing racism then they need to be given a little leeway.

That doesn’t mean people can raise racism in other threads, or can just fabricate accusations to bully a user or anything like that. And of course we can’t expect people to arrive here fully-formed, aware of every dogwhistle and every problematic phrase. While malicious racism absolutely must not be tolerated, it is thankfully rare. The bigger problem is ignorant racism, which must be firmly but kindly corrected. Most people don’t respond well to angry accusations.

I don't think people should accuse anyone of anytype of wrong doing racist or otherwise unless they have the evidence to back it up.

False accusations are far greater problem on this site than are racist remarks.

The truth about WP is the way it's members treat each other.
Making it all about race is just an attempt to distract from the truth of the hate that WP members have for each other.

Dudette?

It still amazes me that Americans continue to call it liberal, when it is so far removed from that concept that it's laughable.