Editing Eurovision Wiki:Arbitration/Requests/Enforcement (section)

====Statement by Simonm223====
I'm commenting here because I was mentioned. I wasn't personally very offended by Riposte97 erroneously calling me a "Yank". People forgetting Canada is a sovereign country with people who are influenced by but distinct from the United States is, frankly, kind of normal online. I was even willing to extend the AGF that they didn't intend the expression as an insult. But I do have some racism related concerns with Riposte97's comment that I think are more serious. And that's to do with the real thrust of their comment here: {{tq|she isn't black}}. Khelif is an indigenous Algerian and Algeria is a north-African country with a [[Algerian War|recent history of severe colonialism]]. My comment was to situate the culture war furor which has made managing that page difficult for two years in the context of intersectional marginalization. "Black" was effectively used as short hand for North-African woman of colour. Attempting to suggest there is some specifically ''American'' thing about recognizing how her ethnicity was impactful upon the media circus seems almost willfully obtuse. I've had concerns with Riposte97 and ''race'' issues long before I encountered them on gender issues. This was present in their disruptive editing of [[Canadian Indian residential school gravesites]] of which this diff is a good example [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1225880837] and their contributions to the [[Grooming gangs scandal]] talk page such as this [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=prev&oldid=1296529394]. I was unaware of the dispute about Donald Trump and his ''patently obvious'' oppression of trans people because I don't watch the Donald Trump page very closely but I would say there is a consistent pattern to Riposte97's editing across political topics. [[User:Simonm223|Simonm223]] ([[User talk:Simonm223|talk]]) 12:59, 2 March 2026 (UTC)
:These diffs from this morning are also pertinent to this discussion as Riposte97 has asked the lead to introduce doubt as to whether Khelif is a woman, saying {{tq|stating unequivocally that she is female is, in my view, no longer responsible}}: [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AImane_Khelif&diff=1341437587&oldid=1341376322] [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk%3AImane_Khelif&diff=1341448522&oldid=1341440523]. [[User:Simonm223|Simonm223]] ([[User talk:Simonm223|talk]]) 12:33, 3 March 2026 (UTC)