Is slack a private social club and other issues my sorry ass has landed itself in

[Losty]

I'm trying to avoid this thread for the time being, and I have additional comments to make, but if slack is indeed independent of the forum, then your decisions about members' status on the forum, and questions such as whether they are members of the forum, or have requested to be removed from the forum are not relevant to said decisions.  You're trying to have it both ways.  Slack isn't a part of AF, but a person can be removed from slack based on their behavior on the forum.

And with that, I'm likely out for the next day as I have things to attend to, and this has been very stressful.

Oh, and Losty, I accept that you don't dislike me and are not acting on such feelings, but disliking me for my behavior and opinions amounts to about the same thing.  I'm happy to engage you in a rational discussion of the issues, but this seems to me to be something more.  And for what it's worth, I told my nurse about my, "Whassup, nigger?" comment and she found it very funny.  So while you personally may not find it funny, likely because of political and other disagreements, I think you were simply wrong saying it wasn't funny.  And before you accuse my nurse of being someone likely to engage in behavior that is dehumanizing and controlling towards blacks, I suggest you just don't.

I’ve put my foot in my mouth so many times when it comes to race. All I can do is claim ignorance, apologize for my ignorance, and learn something for next time I decide to open my mouth. Honestly, i am always super grateful when people are cool enough to let me know when something I said wasn’t ok, because that helps me prevent myself from making an ass of myself in the future.

I didn’t think your joke was funny at all. But I’m just some white lady and my opinion on it doesn’t matter much. When you make an attempt at a racial joke though, and the only black person in the room says “hey...not cool”. (This is just my opinion again) it then becomes extremely asinine to double down and insist your joke was funny. It makes sense to apologize. Seriously, I don’t think you’re a racist at all. I just think you put your foot in your mouth and you should back up and say “yup I did that, sorry, won’t happen again”. Instead of “how dare you racists accuse me when I have just as much right to say that word as anyone else and my friend says it was funny!!😡” (this is just my opinion on how your reaction looks, not saying that’s actually what you said.)