My dear fellow white people:
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My dear fellow white people:
It's not up to us to say whether we, or another white person, are being racist. We're white, we don't get to make that call. But when a Black person says they've experienced racism, and they point clearly to it, it's on us to believe them and to do something about it.
the people's eva (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image ¡ Content warning: meta, multiple examples of eris misgendering me and being racist and doing transmisogynoir at me
BlackQueerLife (blackqueer.life)
The fediverse still has a racism problem, and there are whole entire so-called 'safe' instances out there defending this particularly blatant racist.
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Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curatorreplied to Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curator last edited by
I'm posting this because over the last few days, another non-white person has been attacked by Eris (the person clearly shown as being racist in the above post) and her defenders, having several days of abuse and harassment in their mentions, DMs, even emails. All the while, Eris is claiming innocence - worse, claiming that she's being targeted herself.
(Read: https://diaspora.im/@fyrfli/113111773015569556 and remember, white people, to listen to Black folk.)
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Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curatorreplied to Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curator last edited by
Horrifyingly, this has also resulted in an 'anti-police' moderator of a 'safe' fediverse instance encouraging people to report the recipient of this racist harassment to the feds (for an unrelated post about enacting theoretical violence on transmisandrists: https://blackqueer.life/@so_treu/113097608195012487 ). You *can't* be in the US and NOT know how the feds treat Black and Brown people there; we take this as threatening state violence against a Brown person.
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Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curatorreplied to Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curator last edited by
If you're one of those who, when you hear 'the fedi has a racism problem', goes 'well I've never seen any!' - here it is. I've shown you. This is a fraction of it.
Do you say you're an ally? Here's yet another opportunity for you to step up and be what Black and Brown folk actually need - an accomplice.
Do your instance moderators know about Eris? Have they blocked her accounts, and blocked the instances that she's on that not just tolerate, but encourage, and join in with, her racism?
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Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curatorreplied to Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curator last edited by
The racist abuse @packetcat has been receiving has been documented on that account, and on their instance admin account @guinan . The receipts are either there or available if asked for. Instances and individual accounts of all perpetrators are listed. It is, sadly, not a small list.
Racism should have no place here. It should not have a voice, it should not have any space, it should not be tolerated.
Stamp it out.
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Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curatorreplied to Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curator last edited by
Lastly, if you come accross this thread and are tempted to dismiss it as 'fedi drama', roll your eyes and scroll on because it 'doesn't concern you' and you just wish you had a peaceful timeline to read without all this bad stuff, consider that these are people's lives we're talking about; people that deserve to exist online, on social media, in peace, just like you do, without facing abuse and harassment, and I implore you to help make that happen for THEM as well as for you.
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Mystery Babylonreplied to Mastodonâ˘ART đ¨ Curator last edited by
@Curator Thank you for this.
This isn't just fedi "drama".
This is a multiple-years campaign by one person and her allies to muddy the waters around POC reporting racism on the fediverse, by harming POC and then linking their reactions to transmisogyny. It has left this whole place scarred. And that's not even to mention the unfair harm it has done to so many individual people.
I've personally witnessed It since what, 2019? It needs to fucking stop.