The reporting on the proliferation of white supremacist ideology on Twitter underlines the casual racism and hate-speech that people of color encounter on a daily basis. Eradicating it on an online platform gave people a strange sense that somehow America was making significant progress. I’m not saying that we aren’t, just that it’s a process that takes more than just online vigilance.
@TheeEyeOfHorus absolutely, and no platform is immune. (For example, someone on *this* platform just told me I wasn’t “capable” of understanding some bs they were spewing.) But to your point, our online experiences are just an expression of our offline experiences.
@TheeEyeOfHorus Yes, and we need to be very aware of the states trying to whitewash American History by removing what they call Critical Race Theory. It is a move to try to pretend that racism does not exist, when we know full well that it does.