If someone says it's your job as a person with privilege to dismantle systems of oppression, instead of panicking and getting defensive, you can do one or both things

1. You can just say "I don't know how to do that." Seriously. I think so much of these lame ass comments are because people panic and get defensive. And instead of just being honest, they try to intellectualize their way out of the anxiety.

2. Literally go google "Black activist authors" or "queer activist authors" and learn.

I've been really weighing the pros and cons of just being on the #Fediverse and not corporate social media.

I like to write about tech and social justice. But I'm discovering it's probably easier to write about the dangers of big tech to a non-techie audience on BlueSky or Substack than it is to convince a Mastodonian that systemic oppression exists. The former also just far more delightful

The absence of POCs here is just so heavy sometimes. It makes me question what am I actually supporting?

@fromjason Maybe the people here who know systematic oppression exists are not the ones replying to you (in general, because they agree with you, or know it's not reasonable to centre their relative lack of experience over others' direct experience.)

That's going to leave people feeling like there's no understanding here, when the truth is only the people without the understanding are talking. Some of Mastodon's "anti-viral" design is unhelpful for this, for sure.

@fromjason @tokyo_0

FWIW i'm one of the ones who don't reply, in my case because when i encounter threads like this i prefer to just be quiet and let the people with the lived experience of oppression do the talking.