No. If you push back he will keep behaving the way he did.
If you ignore him he will go away.
You will not cure someone of racism by insulting them on a message board, especially when they might not even be a racist deep down, just a troublemaker looking to get a rise out of people.
But if everyone just brushes these comments off, they become acceptable. Isn't this passive discrimination what has been plaguing Asian-Americans for decades?
None of this will cure racism. It will just likely make someone think twice before saying insensitive things.
In any case, I understand that as a moderator, you don't want to be deleting posts. I'll try to be nicer next time, but racists just trigger me every time.
Did he DDoS you at the end?
What do you mean by "North African background wasn't enough to be racist towards Asians"?
You're probably out of context, but there was a block of racists posts that got deleted on this thread. The individual was pretending to be white so he could claim he's better than Asians. Turns out he was 3/4 North African and pointing that out
really triggered him.
