Kim Crayton ~ Her/SheOk, one of the main Twitter features that I’m definitely missing is the quote retweet because it’s been an important and impactful teaching strategy…it enables me to highlight an issue/concern by adding often missing perspectives/voices/narratives/historical framing/etc
Brantley Harris@KimCrayton1 Would love your take on this: What would you think about certain people being identified as experts on a topic, and then their quote/retweets get boosted by an algorithm?
@deadwisdom it depends on who’s deciding who’s an “expert” because far too often white folx make these decisions ex. “fair”, “equal”, etc which positions whiteness as the “expert” of all things, even those it has no lived experience with and denies assigning such status to those who do
Hell! White folx can read an online article that they have no understanding of, steal the ideas, and then writes best seller, while silencing the victims of their theft
@KimCrayton1 Ugh, I see the problem. Identifying the actual expertise is really tough. But, on the other hand, everyone's doing that all the time with no tools to do so.
I'm interested in figuring out how to actually amplify positive voices in social media. It seems to me that the best quote tweets are from people like you that have worked on and thought long about a topic and so can add the very best perspective. I want to see that rise through the rest of the chaos. But how?
@deadwisdom then you do that…you RT, you QT, you pay us to speak at your events and in your communities, you buy our products/services…you do whatever it is we say we need but asking us, when how to help is already out there doesn’t help. It does nothing to amplify our voices and work. So stop asking how to do what is obvious and just do it. If all else fells…CashApp, Zelle, PayPal, Venmo, etc all work…PAY US