Making it Better: The future of WP

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I would do that, regardless of the race of the homeless person.

I still wouldn’t feel good about that, though.

Honestly, people who accuse me of being racist, I just laugh about it. I have an online friend who is racist and he has tried to make me out to be the racist. I notice this is what the right wing tries to do. They try to flip it around and say liberals are the racist ones and the left wing. I have even seen comments on here saying "if you think it was a race issue because of skin color, that is racism."

I have not seen any libs flipping out for being called racist by the right wing.

We've all worked really hard on this thread to identify problems that are alienating some of the membership and causing distress. I think your words ^ will start to remind people of the principle rules. There have been problems with direct and indirect attacks, as well as unsubstantiated generalisations against groups of people for various reasons. It's not just about politics because many people are entirely apolitical. I hope that you agree it isn't OK to jump to faulty conclusions about other people or their character, or to judge the people who try to follow your rules.

I hope this thread will get back on track and that WP will continue to be a functional support site for us all.

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I echo this sentiment and the fact you are taking time out to answer our questions

the moderators are doing their best to make the community positive. I don't know the context of what happened with you league girl. You'd have to appeal to them if you have an issue with it. But racism is pretty common in america. most people have done racist things at some point in their lives with or without realizing it.

I wish my shoulder were as broad as yours LG

If racism is that common, then I hope it can become a non-issue unless clearly racist or inappropriate comments are made.

Going out of one's way to call another person racist is hurtful, especially when it's meant to demean the person's character. If the person was truly racist, and there was evidence to support the claim, I'd assume they would have been banned by the moderators long ago.

I do the same as you do. Listen to Kaitlin Bennet and Ben Shapiro and Candace Owens and Blair White. I also read TERF stuff too and gender critical stuff but I also read the other side too and listen to the other side.

I find it a shame that people will only listen to one side and judge anyone who follows and reads any right wing stuff or who even follows Donald Trump on social media. I say about that "I follow him because I need to keep tabs and know what he is saying." I follow his parody account on one account and the real Donald Trump on the other.

Very odd. My car automatically locks the doors when I turn on the ignition, and I double check , as a course of habit .
Traveling alone. Causes this habit .

I feel it’s a functioning site now.

We just have to iron things out.

I’ve had racist things done to me....and I’ve also benefited from “white privilege.” Getting and keeping my job and apartment has had nothing to do with “white privilege,” though.

It’s nonsense to believe that an oppressed race cannot themselves be racist.

Several people here were banned for doing this.

I may be repeating myself here, from a post I made in the Politics forum a few weeks back, but I can't help wondering if the official WP attitude on 'conservative opinions' is that they're fine as long as they're confined to support for free markets, low taxes, deregulation ('government getting out of the way'), and all the rest of it, but when it comes to social and cultural matters, it's a different story.

That would pretty much mirror what has become the default situation throughout the Western World over the past quarter of a century, with the almost unfettered application of 'neoliberal' economic policies (including the Clinton administration in the USA, Blair in UK), but increasing restrictions on expressions of conservative social views in the workplace, in social media, even in government. You now have a situation where someone arguing in favour of, for example, the traditional concept of marriage, can be accused of bigotry and hate speech and could quite likely lose his or her job for holding an opinion which was unexceptional a decade or so ago. No wonder the big corporations have bought into this state of affairs - they've been able to take advantage of the neoliberal free for all in the business environment, while at the same time being able to indulge in virtue-signalling by embracing the new orthodoxy of PC and identity politics.

So maybe WP is just a reflection of the wider society. Maybe inevitable, but still perhaps regrettable for more members here than one might at first imagine (the phrase 'silent majority' comes to mind....). But I could be wrong about that. I often am. LOL.

No one has ever said the oppressed can't be prejudice. When they say they can't be racist, what they mean is their prejudice over people have no power. Racism holds power. If a black person or some other minority is prejudice about white people, we are not oppressed.

I think individuals are in denial about this issue because they were educated to think in terms of categories and not gradients/spectrums. They've formed a concept of what racism is based off of an arbitrary threshold.

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I turned that feature on but it was annoying so I turned it back off.

Yes. If someone told me I was racist and explained why, I'd thank them for bringing it to my attention and make sure to check myself so it didn't happen again. I don't get called racist though because I'm very introspective in general.