I just reread Azizi's first post. The question asked was "Should people ignore offensive posts?"

I guess I think that it depends on the offense. Racism is not the same thing as conservatism, liberalism, socialism. I agree completely that racist posts should be deleted as soon as a clone detects or is told about them. Until that time, however, I think it is wrong to ignore them.

Racism is morally reprehensible. It is institutionalized in societies or in cultures, and so becomes pervasive, and lingers long after efforts are made to begin to change those institutions. To not confront racism within ourselves and when we observe racist acts in others is to let it stand. We can look at the brutality of slavery in the Americas, the death camps of the Nazis, the genocides in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Africa, the treatment of Native Americans in this country and know that racism is deadly. A liberal and a conservative slugging it out is a very different battle of isms than is racism.

People of conscience must always take a stand against racism.

IMHO

Janie