I'm tired of seeing this echoed in this thread. When someone is saying regressive racist things, is ignoring systematic structures, conflating demographics and ethnic groups under the Asian moniker, they need to be called out. Ignoring racism doesn't address it.
People like to believe that ignoring people works and it doesn't. It doesn't work with HS bullies. It doesn't work with workplace harassment, and it doesn't work online either. Not addressing people like this allows a wound to fester. And the infection can spread, and it needs to be addressed.
We need to stop giving x attention is the worst way to solve anything. It's lazy. Confronting racists with an audience needs to happen, and it's not like most of the people on this site are Colin's patrons.