Evan, I appreciate you reading my article but I’m afraid you’ve missed a large point.

Whether or not the individual yelling the racial slur was a troll or not, identifying him as one and pointing the harassed individual, and others like him, to simply ignore racially charged offenses perpetuates the idea that people of color must be stalwart silent instead of defiantly decrying discrimination, predjudice and racism. Zora Neale Hurston is famously quoted as saying “If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it”, now in an era where P.O.C are becoming less silent about the situations, people and systems which oppress them, it would be a huge mistake to ask them to regress and remain silent once again.

To your second point, handling issues of discrimination is not a form of child play that you can simply analogize with ‘raising a spoiled child’. If your argument were true, which it isn’t, you would then support physical abuse as it forces one to have the ‘opportunity to trust God’ and love their abuser. It’s faulty and flawed logic wrapped in misinformed theology.

Sure, God presents people with chances to trust him but this situation was not that.