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"Block and unfollow this user because they used the word 'XY' so they must be (ableist/racist)."

Have you ever considered that this person maybe simply didn't know?

Some words change their meaning and eventually are considered not appropriated anymore.

Maybe they are non-native and used an online translator.

I do know for example that "gypsy" is a word they will give you. It just happened a few weeks ago. A foreign person without any disrespectful thought used a translator to get their point across, but instead of cancelling them, somebody stepped forward and did the thing I am expecting more of you to do.

Instead of calling them out and cancelling them right away because you are assuming everyone everywhere knows perfect English and the correct and proper terms for everything you could teach them otherwise.

Get into their PMs or inbox, gently correct them and tell them why!

If you just get into their messages and scream at them, the only thing you are achieving is hurting them.

Your cancel culture completely prevents people from learning - especially if they didn't know something in the first place without giving them a chance or the benefit of a doubt.

Not everyone is American and not everyone is aware of the latest trends.

Stop assuming and start communicating and educating!

raggedyannazon

This!

And to add, because a lot of people love to say "well they could've educated themselves, I shouldn't have to do it for them."

Not everybody has the same experiences or life situations to realize it was ever an issue like you did. Not everyone is in a place of knowing it was a thing at all. And many even if they do know something has a problematic thing associated with it don't know what sources to look for that are reliable for information sometimes let alone what to Google. It's not always that easy. It's easy to you because you have personal association with the issue or have had the blessing and privilege to be gifted information to find out about said issue. Whether that's someone directly recommending you something, you stumbling on it or being in orbit of those groups or things through association. (For example, and with the same slur. I had zero knowledge or inkling gypsy was a slur and derogatory until I followed a Pagan page of someone who was educating on Romani history. I was 28.)

Give people compassion first and the empathy to understand they are not you and have not had your knowledge or experience, and wouldn't know where to start even if they knew something was amiss. (Also: putting the job of education onto the self with people who are genuinely making a mistake in good faith can get them lost into the spaces we DONT want them in, and those spaces will educate brainwash them into believing the exact stuff we wanted to avoid. I.e. radfem and white supremacy, etc.)