I feel like if no admins/mods come out with a post delineating anti-indigenous trolling and reiteration of guidelines for respectful interaction, I will leave the site.

Yeah I know big whoop and who cares and whatever, even I find farewell threads to be stupid(which is why this is as close as I get by burying it in a megathread as a post), but I raise this only because of the specific form of repeatedly bigoted behaviour is something all leftists must grapple with if they are to defeat the remnants of their own paternalistic attitudes towards listening to indigenous peoples, let alone considering their views. There is a reason why more indigenous people messaged me their support than posted it publicly: because people do not feel comfortable expressing that part of them due to the impacts colonialism and the sheer hostility or indifference from many others with no similar frame of reference. That is a problem.

I feel like "hey this is unintentionally racist" should be enough to get alleged 'comrades' to reflect, listen and hopefully pause their behaviour, but instead I had to repeatedly highlight how I agree with the thrust of the shittily-executed satire and was still treated as a 'troll' by the OP. I was a 'troll' to them and their friends because people can't even conceive of indigenous people posting on here. And after the OP finally realised they were tripling/quadrupling/hexabering down on their racism(making themselves look bad) and gave a half-hearted apology, their sidekick came in and started shit going anew and accused me of being some kind of badfaith idpol wrecker or whatever.

Throughout the long-lasting series of posts, mods and admins were entirely silent and first began by removing posts calling the perpetrators out or extending their logic to contexts that clearly demonstrate how fucked up they were being if it involved other marginalised groups, rather than addressing any of the root causes that led to escalation.

I work for an organisation paid for by the sacrifice of my people, this site is bad for my productivity, and the total silence and inaction from anyone who knew-but-chose-not-to-step-in is very disheartening and makes me question what is the point of wasting my time in a place that allows for all that bullshit. Ideally, not wasting time on here is better for my people and clearly, it is only up to us to take care of ourselves as there is still a long way to go until non-indigenous people can be counted on to do something themselves when they see it.

Like, at least give us back downvotes and outline some guides on how this site will deal with indigenous people being sidelined as a novelty/a troll (oh geez, I'd hate to derail the refined discussion of the 4th low-tier troll post of the day ported over from reddit ! that's important stuff to keep on track, shoo indigenous people with your rigtful criticisms, we're all riffing :stav-laugh:! ). That post was already against the rules of the comm and should have been removed from the start. It wasn't. It festered and got worse. While getting worse, the first actions of the mods etc were mostly directed at removing those calling the bad-faith vegans out.

If there's no real response to bullshit like that, there is no reason for me to come on here and waste my time and my peoples money, given that since the migration to this site there is a tremendous lack of useful effortposts or discussion of obscure leftist knowhow like there was on the old sub to balance out the garbage like today's.

I will definitely stop coming on here as much, I will definitely stop posting on here as much, and I am considering just stopping entirely because I don't see many reasons why I should continue to bother with all this. We constantly discuss and stay vigilant for every way we can make the site more inclusive for every group under the sun but when active bullshit is going on against indigenous leftists all the most important figures to step in and regulate debates were entirely absent. That's not good folks.

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