How do you cure an incurable disease?

You don’t.

Another episode. Another session of outpouring support and “we stand with you”

England women’s footballer, Jess Carter who is I believe, mixed race, suffered horrendous online racial abuse she says..

When will we learn? These public outbursts about racial abuse is one key reason it has and will continue. You cannot cure an incurable disease! Insults are insults, abuse is abuse! There is nothing special, nothing extra-potent about racial abuse!! It is abuse! Period. The folk who do it, want a reaction. They want maximum impact. And the minute we continue to give them that extra attention, it encourages them! It pleases them! That’s their life fulfilled.

We can’t police the internet and every word spoken or typed online! It is simply not doable! But YES, there should be consequences, when people go for public office and old posts get dug up, it should be an immediate disqualification, regardless of who they say they are today. They can go and pursue all other jobs, but not public office. And as for online posts and comments that incite violence etc., if and when discovered, they should indeed be prosecuted – as some were, last summer, when rioting ensued in the UK. But these silly outpouring of support each time someone says they have been racially abused online, is just a show! We say we support and stand by them, but the abuse occurs every second online, to people who are not in the public eye and it goes on quietly!

We have to get non-Caucasian people to understand the psyche of the people who post racial abuse online or yell it in public etc. You don’t change those folk. The only way to end it, is to nullify the pleasure they derive from it. Yes, racial abuse is hurtful, but any other type of abuse is also hurtful. The abusers are abuser period. What they look for, is what hurst most. And if people continue to react so much, to these racial abuse incidences, the abusers succeed.

Racial abuse should be dealt with, EXACTLY the same way as any other type of abuse/insult. Putting it on some silly pedestal, as some special kind of abuse, is the reason it keeps on coming!

We (sane people) all felt awful for Jess. Here’s a young woman, doing the very best she can, for her country, and she didn’t deserve any of that. But, she and any other folk suffering racial abuse, MUST begin to treat it as just any other type of insult/abuse. It ain’t nothing special! If they can do this, the abusers will get frustrated and find other sad things to turn to…

I am not suggesting that nothing should be done about racist abuse or that it’s a non-issue. Actions should be taken behind the scenes. Where have the previous public gestures got to? Taking the knee, outpouring of support etc., those measure avail nothing. They don’t work. The only solution that will work, is to take the fun out of it, for the abusers. Deal them the blow of no reaction. Be indifferent to it – as far as reacting goes. Let the police do their job in tracking down the abusers, if need be (if it meets that threshold, as we can’t expect the police to start chasing up on every online abuse!). Starve the abusers of their fuel (the more people react and moan about it, the happier the abuser gets!) and ignore them!