remember when mastodon leftists torpedoed a jewish instance? then other mastodon leftists torpedoed a black instance?

how many of yall set out on educating yourselves about antisemitism and antiblackness? how many of you actually put in the work to make sure it doesn't happen again? no seriously.

@guerrillarain "a" is being generous, you know this has happened pluralisticaly and I'm right there with you being fully sick of seeing it keep happening.
This space isn't the haven a lot of privileged people feel it for, for sure.
If some self-styled leftists learned to shut up spouting things about stuff they have no idea about for internet points and considered the impact of their own behaviour before going in with shallow hot takes nobody asked for etc it could go a long way
@guerrillarain I'd like to share this sentiment on the *incredible* levels of normalised ableism here too
@guerrillarain Which time?
I'm pretty certain I never got the full story on more than one of these because more sensible instances immediately blocked the problematic ones.
Are you thinking of the time someone got booted from an instance because the instance had a wild idea about what "advertising" was? How did that story end? How could I know?
@guerrillarain hi, can you explain a little more about the issue with the Jewish instance?

@kjr @guerrillarain

This is about an instance that's long gone. There was nothing really wrong with them. But other leftist instances decided to just make up slanders and lies. I wonder why 🤔

https://hachyderm.io/@alter_kaker/110662691218161849

Yeshaya Lazarevich (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Oh that too, for a minute there it was like half the Fedi was blocking us as Nazis pretending to be Jews, the other half was yelling us for being Zionists even though it said on the about page that we weren't. I think that that was definitely a growing up moment for me, just at a time I was wrapping up my burntout on antifascism @[email protected]

Hachyderm.io
@raf @kjr @guerrillarain oh, yikes. I wasn't even aware of that.

@kjr @guerrillarain

And there was nothing wrong with the black instance either. The fediverse was and continues to be very racist. Every attempt to deny or minimise that is an impediment to fixing it