Outrage is the appropriate emotion to feel when we see racism displayed in this forum, in my opinion. But to show it in our posts doesn't correct the problem. The reason is that often times (most of the time), when people post things like that in an internet forum like this one, their intention is to get an emotional response. So whatever gets them that response, they will do more of, not less. The agenda of such people is to elicit a visceral response using any means necessary.

The reason the policy is to ignore and delete is because otherwise, the quite valid emotional responses people have toward hateful posts willcause the hateful behavior to increase rather than to decrease. I know this seems counterintuitive, but the internet seems to have a different behavioral reality attached to it than the 3D world.

Having said that, if a member is promoting racism or hate, and is not doing it in a trolling sort of way, I think it is important to poke as many holes in his or her arguments as possible (but in a non-emotional way). If we shine a light on that kind of foolishness, we might at least be able to make them uncomfortable enough to think twice about doing it again here, even if they don't ever really experience a change of heart about people whom they see as being different than themselves.

Either way, Azizi and Hilda Fish, I'm sorry for your pain.