Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

@mala You too!

@mala Well, it's making me want to get the fuck out and move to the US much quicker.

@mala pretty shit, but that's mostly HK itself getting fucked by China.

@SuperCee@plush.city that's my take for a lot of anime series too

@June@kitty.town Hot dang.

@mala Yeah, but for WHO? That's the point of those voice speaking up, they are the voices of the marginalized, who sees everyone else's cups filling with privation, and then them looking at their own, and seeing it barely filling up wondering why they keep going through deprivation while everyone else gets to eat.

Sorry, but this is a tone deaf take.

@June@kitty.town Free money is good, especially in this time of need.

@AshBunny I feel you. I've always had this uneasy feeling about those cartoon shows.

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g) The nature of the scarlet snarks of those folks who tried to provoke me carried with them a distinct sense of diaspora to it, and this is no accident, and I'll tell you why...

So, back when I was a part of AltFurry, we had a special room dedicated to collecting some of the spicier and louder takes from the left that could easily be framed as bad takes.

This special room served a double purpose, it was meant to be an indoctrination tool to endlessly hammer into us how evil and manipulative "the left" really are, but it also did something else, it painted a target...

Seemingly out of nowhere, said mark would suddenly be dogpiled on with abusive rhetoric, and in some cases, mass false-flagging. From the public's perspective, there doesn't seem to be any targeting happening. To them, it looked like the mark had said something to piss off a lot of people out of nowhere, and therefore what the mark had said must be bad. More importantly, it gave a sense of undeserved legitimacy to the dogpile.

Back to the present, what's happening here isn't a dogpile, (I mean, with robust blocking tools carrying more agency on the Fedi, that's kind of impossible.) but the same manufacturing of public opinion is taking place where a bunch of similarly-worded snark from seemingly unconnected users is giving said opinion more legitimacy than it deserves.

More importantly, it does suggest that there may be a central private room from which these bad actors may be operating on, and deciding on what sorts of consensus to take.

Given that one of them made use of the instance's town hall streams to try to harass Snouts users, I really wouldn't put it past them if it turned out that this is the case.

In any case, that's pretty much my thoughts on this whole affair. To be clear, I am fine, I am not worried. My rep is the least of my concern right now, and so should it be the least of your concerns. Focus on staying safe, and also focus on working to keep your communities safe from the aforementioned bad actors.

A couple more thoughts on this...

f) What makes anti-blackness so invisible to everyone outside of those who have personally witnessed and experienced it is the fact that a large part of this abuse is not about what is said, but what pointedly isn't being said.

As an abuse survivor, I am very sensitive to empty spaces that aren't occupied, but hinted at by the words spoken.

So how I figured this out was when I did a chud check earlier today and stumbled into a radioactive user's profile who had decided, thanks to my involvement in the discourse, to make me a target for mockery and trying to weaponize my past against me.

Honestly, I don't care about that. They're free to their opinion. But what I noticed is that there is absolutely no mention of Snouts and PlayVicious anywhere in that discourse, and I find that interesting. Why? PV and Snouts users have basically brought the works to them, and that's why they're turning the snark dial to 11, but they aren't directly mocking or mentioning them.

Then it hit me. They're trying to provoke me into defending myself, and therefore making the meta discourse about me, therefore pushing away any mention of anti-blackness subjects, or any other groups they have abused from their immediate vicinity. This is a clear play at erasure meant to pit the interests of the victims and the people speaking up in defense of them against each other. Quite an insidious move.

The scary part is that I probably wasn't the first one they have tried to do this with.

(tbc)

@technobaboo Oh god what the fuck lmao