Racism
Publicly posted racist content.
Public statement apologises for having been interpreted
“I apologise that this happened to me” is a sentence somebody typed, reread, and posted.
Public comments under a school award story spend four replies getting to the point
Nobody said he didn't earn it. They said someone else didn't get it.
County board candidate's public account shares a meme, deletes it after six hours
Shared without comment, which the post itself explained was the point.
Post describes a 22-year seating chart system it declines to explain
“If you saw the chart you'd figure it out in about four seconds.”
Acme Lawn & Feed page says it decides who its “family values” apply to
A business page told its own customers, unprompted, that some of them were not included.
Account says the comment “wasn't about race,” then confirms it was forty minutes later
Doubling Down: a clarification was requested and a second problem was provided instead.
Community board post survives two minutes before deletion
Delete Speedrun — 2m 04s. The post outlasted the argument behind it by roughly ninety seconds.
Post says the economy ended segregation, cites a documentary it cannot name
Facebook Scholar of the Day: a source that cannot be found, described with total confidence.
Commenter explains that the census is “a contract,” cites a meme his brother-in-law sent him
Facebook Scholar of the Day: four memes, zero sources, one extremely confident conclusion.
Neighbourhood group post says a new family “doesn't fit the aesthetic” of the street
A public post in a 4,000-member neighbourhood group spent three sentences carefully not saying the thing it was saying.
School board candidate says the author's name told her enough about the book
She has not read it. She does not intend to. She feels this is sufficient.