During the first years I started posting here I remember a lot of old SDMBers (most are banned or inactive now) who would post, non-stop, fringe, racialist crap in any black-ish themed threads (history, politics, culture, language issues on Africa/Americas/etc) as cutting edge points that must be addressed.
It was quite crazy to often see points like “The blacks/Africans never did/achieved this” or “Scientists have found that about the brains of the races” or whatever, appear in history themed threads on Timbuktu; political threads on southern Africa; economic threads on the developing world; from people who, I assumed, were well informed adults.
This hurt me as 1. An MSc student in Neuroscience and 2. A life long student of global history and culture. So, I’ve always dedicated some of my SDMB posting time specifically to anti-racism and rebutting gross racial misconceptions of modern biological/behavioural sciences. Of course this wasn’t a conscious choice, it just sorta happened that way.
I like to think I’m civil in my postings but, more often than not, I’m shocked on just how (absurdly) civil I find the SDMB are to many of our resident racialists. Once, I summed it up thusly
Today, the OP just might have helped answer this question of mine. If you, as a black poster, feel less relevant than a white poster (of similar mind set) you probably won’t be posting as often or if you feel more reviled you wouldn’t be posting as confrontationally.
Does this sound remotely correct?