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If it goes some way to reduce the constant dribbling of racist, and other bigoted comments on here, then job done.
Sadly, some of those who claim to be ignoring me, persist with their promotion of racial hatred and division.
Others seek to discredit anti-racists posters on here with their pathetic allegations, and abuse, etc.
Still others try their hardest to discredit organisations such as BLM, MOBO, anti-racist politicians and stars, etc in obvious bigoted attacks.
They now excuse their bigotry as trolling, which suggests that they are liars, on two issues, their claim to be merely trolling when their bigotry was even more pronounced prior to my arrival, and their claim to be ignoring me. Why would they be trolling if they can't see my responses? That's just weird. But then most bigotry is just weird.
Bigotry is taught to children from an early age by their parents and peers. It becomes so endemic in their nature that they try to infuse others with their bigotry. Sometimes, they believe their own bigotry so deeply that they resort to discrediting anyone who objects to their innate bigotry.
If bigotry was a religion, we'd call them religious fundamentalists and radicals.
But I will draw a distinction between unconscious bias, and downright intentional bigotry.
For instance, if someone's experience of a person, or a small group of people, is an unfortunate experience, and they then ascribe that character/experience to the whole ethnic/gender/sexual/religious group, it could be unconscious bias or intentional bigotry, but it's bigotry none the less.
Another example, if someone ascribes a characteristic to a famous French person, say Macron, then that's acceptable criticism of one individual, but if they then ascribe an unwarranted characteristic to the whole ethnic group, on no evidence whatsoever, that's intentional racism. They may try to excuse it as trolling, but it's racism none the less.
Similarly, if I criticise Boris, I criticise Boris, perhaps as a bumbling idiot. That's a fair criticism. If I was to ascribe that characteristic to the whole British ethnic group, that would be racism. So I don't. It really is very simple.
TBH, I am amazed that I find the need to explain this. Probably, supposedly, the worst offenders, the ones that need it explaining, claim to be ignoring me.
