volcel thotianaIt's easy to say that "Mastodon has a whiteness problem" without actually evaluating how you contribute to that problem. Painting brown people as the aggressors when they are defending themselves from racist dogwhistles and a society of bigotry is not the way to acknowledge your part in it.
A lot of you don't find this serious because it's so much easier to think those who speak out are just causing "trouble" or "drama" or whatever, and you just want to go back to shitposting. By all means do it, but we all see you. We see what you're doing. Who you're making excuses for. POC don't have the privilege to move on and keep posting through it. As white people, are we really not going to examine how we feel the need put our own fragility and comfort over their lives?
When people take the time to type out why they think you're doing something offensive, especially if it's directed towards them, why do we instantly feel like that is an aggressive act? Because it is attacking our own internalized bigotry that we don't want to acknowledge. Ex: White Liberals find it so offensive to think they can be racist. Because you know if you acknowledge your thoughts as racist, you'd have to see you aren't perfect and your POV can be wrong.
Posting this here in hopes that some of you will see it and hopefully not just roll your eyes and dismiss me being a drama monger or on a soapbox because I'm trying to say this from a place of good faith and hope that we can change.
That's all I really have to say, I guess.