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Asian American MeFite Checkin

I never thought i'd be the one making a post like this, but here we are. Asian Americans of MeFi, I wanted to write and check in after the horrible shootings in Atlanta yesterday. [more inside]
posted by Alensin on Mar 17, 2021 - 15 comments

Resources for Anti-Racism/BLM Activism and Funding

Lets's share links and spread the word on anti-racism community resources and anti-racism fundraising. I've seen some fantastic threads on Twitter that cover some of this, but it would be useful if Mefites could aggregate links for their local bail bond/mutual aid funds, as well as links to protest/anti-racism toolkits from around the world. Here's a great list of mutual aid funds (Threader link of an original Twitter thread, for easier reading). This post should serve as a catch-all thread for a broad range of resources that will enable and embolden Mefites to get involved in the continuous work that is anti-racism activism, whether they're protesting in-person, donating from home, or want to help in other ways if they're unable to protest in-person or donate. [more inside]
posted by nightrecordings on Jun 3, 2020 - 23 comments

I am going to regret this

I made a comment about Stephen King's "The Outsider" referencing what I thought was a well known trope. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Jan 25, 2020 - 140 comments

#poctakeover: The White Allies Thread

Following on from the massive work done by the POC community within MetaFilter, it was suggested in that MeTa that we set up a thread as a sort of “White Caucus”. Welcome to that thread! [more inside]
posted by greenish on Jan 23, 2020 - 107 comments

#poctakeover

Have you noticed an increase in posts about race by people of color lately? It’s not just your imagination. Come and learn about our #poctakeover initiative, and our major takeaways in trying to provide a vision of what a site truly inclusive of people of color would look like. [more inside]
posted by Conspire on Jan 13, 2020 - 97 comments

Allow "push back" comments to stand

In light of the deletion of a Metafilter comment that pushed back against a racist comment in the Frank Ocean thread, I am requesting that the community discuss the benefits of allowing "push back" comments to stand - especially when those comments are insightful, enlightening and challenge other Mefites to be better members of the community. [more inside]
posted by nightrecordings on Oct 24, 2019 - 160 comments

Following up on last month’s discussions: medium and long-term work

First, check out this other post today for necessary context and the immediate-term actions that the mod team is taking. This additional post is a roadmap for the future changes that we are considering, actions we have planned but haven't finished implementing yet, and some site issues that are not as directly related to the previous threads but tie into this process regardless. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jul 8, 2019 - 72 comments

Following up on last month’s discussions: immediate actions and planning

Let's talk about how the MetaFilter community can be a more welcoming, comfortable, and equitable place for our non-white members. It's work that's overdue, from the moderation team and the community in general. There's a lot of context here, so read below before commenting. And it's vital that the voices at the center of this discussion are the community members with the most direct stakes in these issues, so if you're a member of the site's white demographic majority, you need to mostly be listening rather than speaking. [more inside]
posted by cortex on Jul 8, 2019 - 177 comments

Hearing from our members of color

In this recent MeTa, the community discussed the ways in which Metafilter does not serve people of color well. So this post is a space for discussion, dedicated for people of color. If you identify as a person of color, and you have suggestions, complaints, or just thoughts about the site, please share them here! [more inside]
posted by restless_nomad on Jun 6, 2019 - 351 comments

Maybe not so grand

This is fairly minor in the scheme of things, and I feel kind of weird making a post about it, but it never gets easier to see Georgette Heyer and The Grand Sophy warmly recommended. [more inside]
posted by trig on Mar 14, 2019 - 42 comments

The House of Orientalism

Please STOP writing about Asian people and Asian countries (Southeast Asian here) like they are magical mysterious fairytale creatures from a long-ago-faraway exoticized Orient. Framing posts in this style is immediately alienating and hurtful, and it derails any possible discussion. It is not the same as writing about Western white people in this style, because white people have not been subject to the same patronizing orientalist prejudices that people from Asian countries have.
posted by nicebookrack on Jul 5, 2017 - 106 comments

Trying to find a story about young black man on the subway…

I believe this was either a story posted to the blue or a comment on the blue, featuring a story of a young man on the subway who happened to be black. When a few other black kids were being slightly disruptive, he was also instructed to get out even though he wasn't with them. It wasn't until the narrator (who is white) intervened that the police let him stay on the train. [more inside]
posted by Deathalicious on Dec 11, 2016 - 4 comments

Reading the room on international posts

I was a bit disappointed when the recent thread about Iceland's elections devolved into lolz pretty much from the get go. Would it be possible for us as a community to be a little more conscious of how we approach posts about other countries? [more inside]
posted by smoke on Oct 27, 2016 - 64 comments

Not All Problems Are Caused By Being Asian.

Can we stop bringing issues of non-Westernness into Ask Metafilter answers where they aren't warranted? [more inside]
posted by Sara C. on Nov 4, 2015 - 239 comments

We need to have a discussion about racism.

The cultural appropriation thread here went very, very poorly, and I think it highlights a pattern in ways we interact with people of color and talk about issues of race here on Metafilter that create a hostile environment for PoC. I want to bring up some of the tropes we saw in the FPP, and highlight them as specific suggestions as to what I need our community to do and be mindful of going forward, so we don't continue to alienate PoC on this website. [more inside]
posted by Conspire on Oct 22, 2015 - 584 comments

"Brown People" Don't Need You Defending Them Like That

We've all seen it -- "brown people" used as an ironic way of saying "X is racist": whether it's accusing anyone in the U.S. military of "[doing] horrible things to foreign brown people" or an academic "getting a disproportionate amount of crap because he's siding with brown people over white people" or even about how "The 'aliens built the pyramids' notion is a recent iteration of an long-term ongoing narrative stating that 'Those brown people couldn't possibly have done this'." [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on May 8, 2015 - 81 comments

#WomensMarch Discussion / Support thread

The last #WomensMarch MetaTalk thread has closed; I would like one open to discuss what's happening, and if anyone needs to throw out a question.
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome on Mar 26, 2015 - 68 comments

deddit

Given this FPP about reddit's racism, and with the notion presented in that thread here, I'd like to float the idea of a blanket ban on links to reddit on the Blue. [more inside]
posted by feckless fecal fear mongering on Mar 11, 2015 - 306 comments

#WomensMarch

I'm issuing a #WomensMarch* Challenge - can we add 100 extra FFPs by women in the month of March? [more inside]
posted by Deoridhe on Feb 24, 2015 - 328 comments

You sound just like a _____!

There is currently a practice across Metafilter, especially within Metafilter proper (the Blue) and Metatalk (the Grey) of making personal attacks against other users that I feel undermines the community aspect of the site. The attacks I am concerned with most often take the form of ugly insinuations that the user is deliberately derailing, trolling or using common tactics which are allegedly known to be popular with (in alphabetical order, thee could be more, these are all I could think of when I set about making this thread):
  • Anti-Semites
  • Bigots
  • Conservatives
  • Misogynists
  • MRAs
  • PUAs
  • Racists
  • Redditors (specifically, usually The Red Pill subreddit)
  • TERFs
  • Transmisogonists
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posted by misha on Sep 8, 2014 - 1212 comments

It's not shocking if you hear that sort of thing all the time.

I'd like to ask that people stop posting "ironic"/"what if we were talking about X TOPIC" type comments to make their point like this comment in the Alinea baby post. [more inside]
posted by sweetkid on Jan 14, 2014 - 318 comments

"Indian giver" is still not okay

Calling someone an Indian giver is still racist. [more inside]
posted by kamikazegopher on Apr 2, 2013 - 414 comments

Racial Slur

No matter how interesting I find the topic, I find the title of this thread incredibly problematic---is it just because i am canadian?
posted by PinkMoose on Feb 1, 2013 - 160 comments

Just because you didn't say "go fuck yourself" doesn't mean you were civil

The Zwarte Pieten thread is grotesque. [more inside]
posted by Pope Guilty on Nov 14, 2012 - 225 comments

This deletion is racist!

Curious why this thread was deleted. [more inside]
posted by to sir with millipedes on Nov 11, 2012 - 55 comments

Failure at the mediumest levels

You tell me how the first part of this post wasn't relevant to the second part? It's a story of triumph over adversity and every news article about those awesome kids mentioned where, specifically, they lived. This is moderation, it's racism, pure and simple.
posted by mikoroshi on Oct 1, 2012 - 154 comments

Animal totem as ethnic slur?

Isn't referring to French people as "frogs" offensive?
posted by Renoroc on Feb 5, 2012 - 50 comments

Racial epithets in Metatalk

I take issue with the use of "dirty indian givers" in this thread. [more inside]
posted by kamikazegopher on Jan 6, 2012 - 445 comments

I Can't Wait for my Teaching Evaluations

My professor asked the class which of us are racist. [more inside]
posted by andoatnp on Oct 3, 2011 - 136 comments

This is why we can't have nice things

I was afraid from the start that this post would get out of hand. Unfortunately it seems I was right. If we have to rage, let's do it here instead. And while we're at it, maybe we can discuss whether & how a different framing could have prevented or minimized the train wreck we see before us.
posted by scalefree on Mar 4, 2011 - 111 comments

Let's not put the n-word on the front page please.

The N-word on the front page makes Metafilter extremely not work friendly, in addition to being just plain offensive. Can we do something about that? Thanks. [more inside]
posted by empath on Jan 4, 2011 - 229 comments

Moslems? Really?

Why is this okay? [more inside]
posted by OverlappingElvis on Jan 1, 2011 - 318 comments

Racism in the Comments

Question about racist comments [more inside]
posted by luke1249 on Oct 30, 2010 - 263 comments

Why are people who oppose racism often reluctant to discuss class?

Why are people who oppose racism often reluctant to discuss class? In the Jackson Jive incident, five upperclass Australians, four white and one Indian, did an astonishingly racist skit that was paid for by the show's upperclass producers, yet in the discussion on MetaTalk, the idea that this might have something to do with class was only brought up as a joke. [more inside]
posted by shetterly on Oct 9, 2009 - 6 comments

Australian Racism Denial - uergh!

The sheer amount of racism denial in this thread is seriously frightening me. [more inside]
posted by divabat on Oct 9, 2009 - 365 comments

Do you slander Romani?

I'm sorry, but did someone just post that Gypsies are raised as criminals and have no moral values? Not just a literary allusion to lower-class itinerants, he calls out the Romani by name - the same Romani slaughtered by the million by the Third Reich for being a race of evil criminals. And it gets ten favorites? Really? [more inside]
posted by Slap*Happy on Sep 3, 2009 - 1 comment

This isn't even remotely cool

"Gypsy values"? "Morals of gypsys"? "Classic Romani strategies"? What the fuck paulsc?
posted by aspo on Sep 3, 2009 - 479 comments

This is a stupid question on multiple levels.

This is a stupid question on multiple levels. [more inside]
posted by mpls2 on Mar 24, 2009 - 370 comments

Seriously?

And the black majority went on to demonstrate to the world - leaving no uncertaintly - that they were utterly incapable of running their own affairs.
posted by chunking express on Apr 18, 2008 - 338 comments

korean doctors = robbers?

Is it just me or is "Will the Korean doctor rob me blind??" a mildly racist way to start an AskMe post? [more inside]
posted by randomstriker on Mar 27, 2008 - 89 comments

Deletion of post about racist Australian Mayor.

I think the deletion of this post by indienial is a bad call. The continued destruction of all things Aboriginal is a big fat important & undercommented issue, and one which I was looking forward to reading comments about. [more inside]
posted by seanyboy on Mar 13, 2008 - 94 comments

why are racist questions allowed on netatalk

So it's cool to post racist and stereotypical trolls to ask.me now? When did the rules change?
posted by Stynxno on Feb 25, 2008 - 287 comments

Those Run of the Mill Hasidic Landlords

What's the ruling on borderline anti-Semitism? [more inside]
posted by The Gooch on Jan 17, 2008 - 310 comments

what?

Curious why Poolio's first comment was deleted.
posted by sluglicker on Aug 16, 2007 - 91 comments

crush racism an sexism forever

I would be more comfortable speaking with someone gay. Is that kind of sexism halal on AskMe? I need a straight interior decorator (gay men make me uncomfortable). Where can I eat in a nice whites-only restaurant?
posted by Meatbomb on Mar 3, 2007 - 192 comments

What's the most offensive, racist joke you have ever heard?

I can't see any justification for this AskMe.
posted by theora55 on Jul 26, 2006 - 137 comments

Commenter in contentious AskMe protests allegations of derailing behavior

Compare and contrast:
How do I deal with a Muslim co-worker who doesn't like me? which is pretty much one uninterrupted chorus of "what does his being Muslim have to do with it?" and How do I keep my [Latino] neighbors from stealing my power? in which someone, i.e. me, asking the same question, was insulted and accused of derailing.
posted by AmbroseChapel on Jul 6, 2006 - 69 comments

Racism on AskMe.

Is it really OK to promote ethnic stereotypes? If not, why do we have this?
posted by Kirth Gerson on Jun 21, 2006 - 147 comments

I would have bumped them off and then blamed it on the blacks.

What would you have done?
I would have bumped them off and then blamed it on the blacks.


I don't think that sgt.serenity is living up to his handle.
posted by Irontom on Sep 14, 2005 - 52 comments

Hey refugee/racist people, get your own thread

Hey refugee/racist people, get your own thread. Eight comments into it, the troll succeeds and we're no longer talking about the camps. Good work.
posted by tomharpel on Sep 11, 2005 - 80 comments

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