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21 Mar 2021, 4:20 pm

I just got booted out of an Autism group for using the words "African American" and not even in a negative way, in fact I said something nice and I got slammed for being a racist as it was explained to me, because it's racist to mention someone's race in ANY context...

But the same group did a lot of NT bashing which was pretty acceptable...

So I got kicked out of the group because I mentioned a nice African American guy playing a game with me, while at the same time the entire group was like "NTs this and NTs that"

OMG I mean... Okay I'm liberal but this is too far...


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21 Mar 2021, 4:26 pm

OMG now I have people attacking me by PMing me, and my liberal cousins don't want anything to do with me...

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21 Mar 2021, 4:37 pm

I am sorry to hear this. It seems like we’re having to tiptoe around everybody’s feelings, and finding offense in nearly everything in the world.

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21 Mar 2021, 4:42 pm

?? What do they even expect you to call them then??


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21 Mar 2021, 4:45 pm

It was explained to me that you can't assume anyone race by looking at them... And nobody under any circumstances shouldn't be called a certain race.


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21 Mar 2021, 4:46 pm

Someone even mentioned it's offensive to assume gender too....


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21 Mar 2021, 5:03 pm

Was this an online (like Facebook) group, or a physical - meet-in-real-life - one?



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21 Mar 2021, 5:24 pm

Facebook group, and it was explained to me they deleted their posts because FB doesn't allow those terms in their group... Groups are being deleted for just mentioning the words "African American" for example...


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21 Mar 2021, 5:28 pm

That is going overboard.....

Obviously, Africans were bought here forcefully.....but their descendants should be proud of their heritage, nevertheless.

Many other people who didn’t come here by force were enslaved elsewhere in the past. But their descendants are proud of their heritage, too.

Many of people of my heritage were gassed by the Nazis...but I’m still proud of my heritage.



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21 Mar 2021, 5:30 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
That is going overboard.....

Obviously, Africans were bought here forcefully.....but their descendants should be proud of their heritage, nevertheless.

Many other people who didn’t come here by force were enslaved elsewhere in the past. But their descendants are proud of their heritage, too.

Many of people of my heritage were gassed by the Nazis...but I’m still proud of my heritage.


Not only overboard, but it stung when I was called a racist and personally attacked too...


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21 Mar 2021, 5:33 pm

You don’t have to listen to those idiots.

They don’t know you.



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21 Mar 2021, 5:39 pm

Things are a bit outta hand...... these days ............ it’s gotten to the point of almost being shameful
How people are getting treated these days for expressing themselves in many different manners .


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21 Mar 2021, 6:11 pm

I kind of feel like there is some context missing here. Was the person part of the group, part of the platform? What do you mean you said "nice", could it maybe have come across as implying that a "nice" African American is an exception? Were you going off a picture or something, not every dark skinned person is an "African American", and maybe there was no need to say that they were such, just as it would not be necessary to call someone a Caucasian. You aren't seeing a picture that someone is white and calling them a nice Caucasian, are you?

Regardless, the type of people that bash people for being NT are usually just as worth taking serious as edgy teenagers.


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21 Mar 2021, 6:21 pm

Hmmm... Context....? Peoples in or out of context .????.


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21 Mar 2021, 6:38 pm

Angnix is no racist.



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21 Mar 2021, 7:37 pm

I believe that ......... agreed


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