If we see someone post racist/bigoted comments are we complicit in its spread if we don’t say anything?

The admins here like it. If you report people for posting racist shit, they force you to block those people so you can't keep reporting their racist shit. That way, the admins don't have to do any fucking work.

No, the people who say this kind of shit are generally beyond the capacity to convince or deter, and the sheer volume of it is such that no one can be faulted for not wanting to engage.

The only thing evil needs is for good people to not stand up.

What shocks me is the number of people who said no

There are people you can help, there are people you can't. Pointing out a problem is one thing, but at least one seemed to be saying the facts didn't matter.

I'm not sure how well the report button works here but I did consider for a moment pressing it. I can think of only one time I've used it here when a particular hateful response was directed at a particular person by name. Whether or not anything was done I never knew. On most sites the report button works like a thermostat on the office wall that isn't actually connected to anything. It's there so people can feel like they did something, and maybe you get a message that the admins took action about something you reported at some point in the past, Probably sending you the acknowledgement that they saw the report is as far as it actually went.

Not really. I mean if you want to call attention to it, go ahead.

But what are you worried about? What do you think would happen if we all chose to ignore such things as pointless provocations that we don't take seriously?

I hate generalisations.
But i think online its difficult.
Most people are here just to argue.
In real life. Id say something. On here . Not my circus.
Having brown skin you encounter micro aggressions often in real life. So there's little point in trying to defeat it online. real life matters, they are just words online sometimes.

I'm not going to change someone's views by saying anything to their hate speech. I see no point in saying something. I don't become complicit to it. All sorts of people exist in the world.

I've actually seen very little of this. Maybe all the right people have me blocked. Or all the wrong ones.

I always report it, often speak up to the poster, and then frequently mute or block the individual. People who post that kind of content don't deserve the company of civilized adults.

Well, I always report the post immediately.
And I don't always fight back on the comments. It's hard to fight every single idiot.

I don’t believe we have any control over it and we only fuel the argument for both sides when we supposedly “stand up” to it. Creating more friction. More reason for those that have no understanding of nature and emotions to fire off. Society as we know it needs to collapse. We all need to tumble into the rubble and then we’ll see what’s really important. Those of us that make it.

Subtle ridicule has always been my go-to. If they don’t get it, all the better.

Yes and no. I think the concept behind freedom of speech is that even the worst ideas should be out in the open, so they can be dismantled by decent people, but that also doesn't mean every single bad idea is to be challenged on sight, rather the majority checks for the ideas which are gaining momentum or likely to incite violence as the most important ones to address

Who gets to decide .... is it based on religion, race, orientation, political views , etc ?
Does free speech exist ?
If you Believe in free speech you have to take the bad with the good

So what if they do say any of those things? Does it actually harm you or anyone else on here? Most of the time those kind of people are just trolls, and even when they're not I still don't know why you would take it seriously.

No, they're either ignorant or doing so to get a rise out of others. Saying something won't automatically make them change their minds about it, they know it's unacceptable.

still waiting on that gay member of congress to share his undeniable proof

No not going to fight every creep that comes along Murka is teeming over with them.

This post reminds me of the user [redacted]Proud and [redacted]Wolf. The first one was very racist against blacks and when I asked him he admitted that he doesn't like black people, it took SW 2 or 3 years to ban his ass. The Wolf guy openly admitted to being a white nationalist/supremacist he even had pictures on his profile of people doing the 'hail Hitler's sign. It took a minute for him to be get banned and the last one was liked by some people.

I reported these people and brought their attention to the admins and they didn't do anything until enough people reported them both. I think that [redacted] guy is also a supremacist he may be tamed now but he wasn't at first.

Also, I saw a trash post by a user, who asked if it was okay to use the the N word and two yeehaw redneck motherfuckers and other users where pandering to her and saying yes because they think all black people use the n word. I don't, it's history is disturbing and ugly no one should use that word. Sorry it's long.

I definitely flag it. I’m less likely to get into a battle over it online because there’s the troll factor; some people post such things to upset people and their satisfaction comes when they know they’ve done that and I don’t come here to fight with people.

Many times I’ve seen this stuff removed and its authors banned, so the moderators will (eventually) moderate.

I report and say something to the poster. I see lots of deleted replies so I am sure some of them are the racists I have brought to task.