why yes we're still thinking about that time qualia told us that it was wrong of us to be framing our social problems in terms of race

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

like, if it's wrong of us to frame our social problems in terms of race, what's the better alternative?

the offered alternative was "you're opinionated and hostile" (and thus potentially abusive and dangerous), which is.... drumroll please... rooted in white racial prejudices that create a hierarchy of discomfort

[sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net]

@atax1a also I've never seen you be hostile just because someone disagrees with you or whatever, it's always in response to bad behavior. like, they see the fact that you are willing to be hostile to people who are being hostile to you as "bad" and that says a whole lot more about their deep-seated issues that they need to work on than it does about you.

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@Sharksonaplane i think what it says more specifically is that they don't see the original inciting event as hostility, they just see our response as hostility.

that, and: wow. we have opinions. and we express them. because we're not a soggy-brained manipulation victim with no ability to assert ourselves.

[eri@mk.moth.zone]

@[email protected] honestly i feel like people have done this exact same pattern to us, for reasons i'm not really sure about.

guessing it's due to being percieved as a trans woman? or maybe autism? idk i'm not here to figure out why opressors opress i'm just trying to give some empathy to ya. you're cool.

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@eri as we understand it, white society prescribes a strict hierarchy of who is allowed to make the other uncomfortable, and if you're "beneath" someone and cause upward discomfort, you get this treatment. doesn't have to be racialized, could definitely be "you're not the right kind of trans"

[cohentheblue@ohai.social]

@Sharksonaplane @atax1a I am hostile to people who lump me in with racists because "my people" are white and "have benefited from racism". My nation is near extinct from russian genocidal efforts, we've barely been independent after 1200 for 50 years. There was more of us than Finnish but now, <1 million of us. Never invaded anyone, helped our neighbours to gain independence.

Every situation is different and if you don't want to learn the reasons, please don't pile onto someone.

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@cohentheblue you are a total rando who has no connection to this thread, please desist

[sharksonaplane@mastodon.sandwich.net]

@atax1a fyi i'm deleting this post bc I think randos somehow finding it and boosting it is how that racist found it

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@Sharksonaplane don't worry

[atax1a@infosec.exchange]

@Sharksonaplane (we tend to prefer that posts remain, even when they attract nuisances)