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This website holds a lot of closeted racists

Imagine, you champion yourself as someone who advocates for equality and claim that you help all children in need and then boom, someone posts a screenshot of you advocating for genocide. You then lose your shit, go a racist tangent showing that you clearly understood what the problem was, delete all of your replies, block the person who outed you and then make a post about how upset you are that someone called you a racist while leaving out the context on how your racism caused this.

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hartfire

Some people don't fully understand what racism is; they can be a racist and not know it.

It certainly sounds as if you had a rough encounter with one of these.

To be honest, the best way of dealing with them is to flag the racist comment or behaviour to admin. They will have a choice as to whether to give them a clear warning, or simply kick them off the site straight away. If it's a warning, they would get, at most, three chances to stop offering racist reactions.

Zenyatta · 26-30

@hartfire This woman knew exactly what she was doing. She went out her way to express how glad she was for the Native American genocide and told the op of that post to get over it. She then went on my post tiptoeing around my subject matter and when I confronted her she was feigning ignorance until I pulled up a screenshot. This woman also claims to be a school teacher and with the interaction I had with her I fear for her students because when upset she becomes an incoherent mess.

Zenyatta · 26-30

@hartfire I’ve flagged so many users only for similar worlds to wait a half a year and respond.

hartfire

@Zenyatta Such a person should never be allowed near a classroom. The danger of them infecting students with their racism is not worth the risk of letting them teach.

The genocide is one of the USA's worst shames, as it is for all other nations born out of colonialism.

There is no way to begin to heal the sins and traumas of the past unless we acknowledge them openly.

hartfire

@Zenyatta Oh dear! That worries me.
Most times I've flagged someone for abuse, I've had a message back within a day or so to say they found my complaint valid and have acted on it. Occasionally the response has taken months. The inconsistency is curious, and leads me to wonder whether they are understaffed, and whether they need to ask volunteers to step forth and form a moderator's team.
They do have a clear policy of not permitting racism or bullying of any kind, so I'm wondering what the heck is going on.