- "see, I've never personally seen this issue, and as we know the defining characteristic of being white is that your experiences are universal!"
MajorLinux: However, this interaction is by far worse than anything a racist would ever do to me.
this fucking lib: this is worse for you than any racist interaction? Wow... ok... I think I see what Im dealing with here.
White liberal being entirely unaware on why a POC finds mask-off racism more tolerable than their bullshit... that about sums it up!
I genuinely, at this point, would take a gamer word over all this performative, bad faith bullshit.
the giant picture of his pasty face as he asks "why doesn't my experience match yours?" really takes the cake:
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Im nb, a writer, tech worker, hard leftist, and I keep hearing (but not really seeing) this.
Initially read "a writer" as "a Whiter" and I think my first reading was more accurate
I'm always so wary of anyone who describes themselves as a "hard leftist", because at that point you should know, communist or anarchist or what. "Hard leftist" coming from people like this just means "insufferable nato liberal who wants to be The Resistance".
I have never seen this issue so it must not be happening!
Proceeds to be racist thus contributing to the issue he isn't seeing
no you see I'm hard left and antifascist, these words are sort of like spells you cast on yourself to become constitutionally incapable of doing a racism
I'm not racist and so that means I can say any racist thing I want because I told you I'm not racist!
Of course, a racist would never call themselves a non-racist. That has never EVER happened in history...
Nope never. This is why you can say "I'm not racist, but..." and become immune to criticism for whatever comes after!
The Silver Huskey user states exactly why people are not going to use Mastodon over corporate social media. The confusing nature and lack of moderation compared to corporate platforms is why people will continue to use corporate platforms. This is what Silver Huskey said, for context:
Had a bunch of my friends try Mastodon. Many of them found it confusing, and just left. I tried my best to explain it and even wrote tutorials. Only a handful stayed.
Then others were run off because of anti-black racism. (A lot of Instances are just terrible. In my quest to find a home, I saw so many places using slurs. Hard R too.)
the "confusing" thing i've never really got. like, i'm pretty dumb, and twitter confuses me. how is mastodon harder when it's doing a lot less in its interface to bombard and bamboozle?
i think when people say "it's too confusing" they mean "it's exactly as confusing as any other new communication medium or online space, but i don't have an incentive to be confused for like a week until i pretty much get it because the kinds of posts i'd like to see aren't really on here." i think we're misinterpreting this complaint if we say that it's entirely or mostly a problem of interface design.
i will admit that having to see a post on another instance and then go back to your instance (or log in to the popup window) to interact with it is a major pain point, but that alone doesn't explain much to me.
I think you are probably right. Absent a killer recommendation algorithm people aren’t dopamine-incentivized to stick around. It took a while before my posts started getting more than zero likes on average.
MF thinks they’re a panopticon that’s observed anything that’s ever happened on Mastodon
aggressive antifascist
no attackers, no hate dms
Pick one. To be "aggressive" you need to actually aggress, circlejerking with your fellow libs about how dumb the fascists are does not accomplish that. Even fucking Hexbear (which is all about circlejerking with your fellow libs) is still antifascist enough to get attackers and the occassional DM.
"i don't believe people are being racist to you because it isn't happening to me""How come we only get called racist when black people show up?"
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