Black people will literally bring receipts and screenshots of #racism on this app and people will reply like “wait, what’s soo bad about that? I have the same predisposition to comments or questions like these, does it make me racist?”

YES. If you reply to a concern about racism by centering yourself instead of listening to the person affected, and trying to learn, yes.

@intentionaut sure seems like mastodon users have been historically skewed toward more bookish, online, or academic personalities, leading many to react with hyper “logical” rationalizations instead of empathy. i have found that w/ my own racism learning curve, so much racism is actually rooted in our personalities and how we deal with the world in general. anti-racism can be a full self improvement project as well as a political necessity