A conversation about conversations about bigotry

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Osterbaum

I understand where you are coming from, but it is not the responsibility of the offended to explain and educate. While it is indeed nicer and possibly more productive to calmly explain, at least at first, why someone is being bigoted and how, those offended do not ow this courtesy to anyone offending them.

I am actually going to go ahead and disagree here because if a statement is made out of ignorance of the possibility of somebody being offended by it, it is extremely awful to make what you thought was a wholly innocuous remark and get met by a tidal wave meteor of fuck you.

Repeat offenders don't get this leniency and trolls are trollin' but people who just honestly say something they didn't really mean should always be approached in a calm manner, and if they continue to debate how the shitty thing they did wasn't all that shitty, report the post as baiting and move on. Members should never ever try to regulate what kind of content is being posted here because when that happens it makes storms like this blow up wherein two sides form. It's much smoother and much easier in that situation just to have one of us look at it to 1) put a stop to the shitty posting immediately or 2) inform you that you're crying wolf because hey sometimes people make mistakes.