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Originally Posted by AnnieK

I understand that people will never fully know the impact and reverberations of racism unless they or their ancestors have been been impacted but trotting out phrases such as "you're ignorant" etc will not change that. Instead of insulting members education is the way to go. I personally don't feel I have been discriminated against (even though I am a woman.....and ginger). Racism, sexism etc is still rife and does need clamping down on but it will never be fully eradicated if people cannot talk about it without being told to pipe down as they are ignorant

Ordinarily Id agree, but some conversations here have been similar to

Black people were slaves
So? Women are sold as slaves all the time, why dont you care about sexism

Education will help, true, but I don’t think Redway labelling a person like that as ‘ignorant’ is particularly unhelpful. It is ignorant, and it’s important that people know this, it would be more helpful if they were told why, agreed.

For some reason, people have been competitive with their own discrimination instead of empathetic to others, and thats pretty sad and ugly.