Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

People don't understand that racism isn't a singular evil, it takes many forms, and anyone could be perps.

Also whiteness isn't a race, it's a received collective identity that is also exclusionary and arbitrary in who gets to be a part of it.

And sadly colour, not ethnicity, plays a big part of it.

Well today has been exhausting & pretty trying. Dealing with toxic people triggering unpleasant flashbacks to past abusive patterns & my abusive ghoul of a late mother, and remembering the painful loss of Snouts and PV. On top of that, dealing with an ear infection.

But I realized something, this hard experience is something most BIPOC folk go through most every day. The fact that this is an anomalous experience is a clear sign of privilege that I enjoy as NBPOC

@cypher why are you here again?

@prehensile you are cute af omg <3

@shadow8t4@masto.werefox.dev yes, you are

@prehensile Just as cute as you are IRL <3

@thr33h3ad3ddragon Because we're easy targets for them, at least that's what they think.

@Bruzer Good move! After all, your gender presentation is yours and yours alone to decide on. <3

I have been mildly triggered several times today following the Fedi Meta stuff, because it keeps reminding me of the same abuse patterns from the bad crowds I used to hang with, that I'd worked so hard to escape.

But you know what? Fuck it, I am powering through it and I am holding the line.

I have no patience for DARVO tactics. Try it with me and earn a free block.

It's pretty funny how the shithawks pop up like shit-mushrooms to yammer on about how defedding or calling out toxic communities is somehow racist when the entire reason they got defedded is because of racist anti-blackness, and general harassment from those instances that had been unaddressed for a very long time.

Yes, the anti-blackness is everywhere on the Fedi, that doesn't mean that we can't take community self-defense measures to address some of it. And no, the perps being PoC doesn't magically make the racism go away.

You wanna know what's REALLY racist? White-washing the folks hurt by those toxic instances, and erasing the ethnic identity and struggles of the PoC negatively affected by the abuse.

Fuck off with that disingenuous bullshit.

@shoofle And I think that it's DARVO to frame community self-defense measures against long-standing anti-blackness issues as racist scapegoating when it's really shitty people using the same abusive tactics as fascist groups to spread spite and poison discourse, and then use identity as a shield to aggressively evade accountability.

I've been following a couple of the victims in this situation. you can't fool me. Nice try though.

@shoofle Yeah, what of it?