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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
These are my views and do not necessarily reflect those of other moderators. I’m speaking as Jiri/Grant not as a moderator of this site.
Clearly these are uncomfortable and tense discussions. It is easy to come over the top and start to moderate by handing out infractions and suspensions. But is that what we need right now? Or do we need to allow ourselves and demand ourselves to actually sit with the discomfort and tension?
Far be it for me to speak on behalf of members of our community that are black or part of other minorities, but it seems like those people have been subjected to racist/discriminatory language for their entire lives….but as soon as someone is accused of being a racist now the line has been crossed? I don’t know – but it reeks a little of white fragility to me.
If someone is saying your are a racist…I would ask yourself why they have come to that conclusions. What behaviors, patterns and things have you said or done that have led them to saying that? Self-reflect instead of react. Because, in my experience, people don’t toss that stuff around for no reason.
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It is a hard thread to moderate because of the obvious sensitive issue being discussed, but I honestly do not understand how someone can get away with obvious personal attacks regardless of what the thread is about.
I make my fair share of jabs, and I expect warnings for them, especially lately. But I think this has gone a lot farther than that, and even the people that have stated that civil discourse needs to be respected are now being labeled as racist losers.
So while I agree with saying some of us need to suck it up, there is some obvious rule breaking going on here, and you are ignoring it because of supposed 'white fragility.' Strange position to take.