Quietly observing
how many people
framed their disagreement with my ASKING if I would have to CW most of my life & activism & daily life
as defense of CW
or defense of #Mastodon culture
or didn’t even read or listen to anything I said
hence proving my point.
Which I made behind a CW out of respect for the community here
by the way.
You cannot truthfully claim you’re not attacking/harassing people just because you dress it up as defense of others.
The extra labor one has to do as a Black person IS the problem.
Having to move to an instance where people understand by default IS the issue.
White people don’t have to find an instance where it’s okay to talk about their daily lives of being white.
Just realized I can’t find my own unlisted posts! So #DisabledBlackTalk will have to do until I find a solution…
Once again. I have no problem with content warnings. My problem isn’t with content warnings OR instances.
And every time you frame the answer or show me the creator of Mastodon’s answer to the content warning issue you’re telling me that you don’t understand what the issue is.
The issue is that there’s no way for me to FREELY BE WHO I AM IN PUBLIC ON #MASTODON WITHOUT HAVING TO HIDE MYSELF.
SAYING I HAVE TO HIDE THINGS ABOUT MYSELF FOR A POPULATION’S COMFORT IS ITSELF PROBLEMATIC.
@Tinu 1000% this. You've nailed it here.
To be in community requires conscious, consensual discussions and willingness to change culture/rules to the member's changing needs. Culture shouldn't be static - it often needs changed.
Folks relying on "this is the culture, deal" are engaging in authoritarian behaviors that oppress and don't actually address our concerns. They aren't willing to be in community with us, which is harmful and exclusionary.
@jdarnold I’m not complaining I’m making an observation that finding abmnither instance is yet another emotional of physical labor instance that white people do not have to do in order to exist.
It adds up. That’s part of what racism is. I’m doing my job,
@Tinu if I'm understanding, the issue is that someone telling you to use a CW is a form of discrimination/silencing. There are some racist undertones that I don't have the context for but the heart of the issue is using CW as a tool to silence others?
nothing about one's public life should be subject to that kind of silencing?
@Tinu Social networks all have their own culture, & the same is true with Mastodon—except it’s a thousand mostly united tribes.
I know on some instances like Counter Social (my profile is @Darnell FWIW), content warnings are rarely used & seem to be ignored.
I usually use content warnings on politics or twitter news as many people here are over exposed to both & prefer not to read any more info about either.
@MortenBay @Tinu @Darnell Heh! I have used content warnings for spoilers or potential spoilers of movies.
I started using them for politics after people complained about being overly saturated with news regarding the super-sized orange Oompa lumpa.
The same for Twitter news too. Aside from those three, I usually do not use content warnings.
I feel this, as a person making an instance for Jews.
In theory, such instances for marginalized or targeted minorities would not be necessary, but that does not solve our immediate needs.
I feel the same, but what I do have is sufficient privilege to:
1. Start such an instance
2. Build tools to make instances safer
3. Share my knowledge with others to empower them to do the same
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