Nine years after joining
Twitter, it’s time for me to also try a new medium #mastodonproject

To connect, find me at: https://mastodon.social/@DerekOBrien

I've seen some others say that they are having lower engagement here than on the fascists-are-welcome social media site.

For me, it has been the opposite. I've been able to gather and answer questions about Indian history here. Real questions, real answers, without the barrage of hate.

Mastodon has freed me to engage on my areas of expertise.

It's the height of ridiculousness that even in the brink of 2020 one has to explain how reservation is not a poverty alleviation program but about representation. This 'ignorance' is not organic, it's intentionally sustained by those who were in power all these years.

It's not like this distinction is so nuanced that people can't understand it. It's just that they don't want to understand it and more importantly, they don't want others to understand it.