A racist remark was made about a Black instance. In a pretty clear-cut way, for anyone who knows what reverse racism looks like. It shouldn't've been said, in our humble opinion, but it was.

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. Therefore, a fediblock post was made highlighting the racist remark for the benefit of instance moderators whose users (and selves) might otherwise be harassed by someone willing to make flagrantly racist remarks.

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. Therefore, a fediblock post was made, possibly unintentionally, denouncing a series of recent fediblock posts describing antiblackness. In the opinion of this user, describing the aforementioned racist remark as antiblack was merely the latest in a sequence of time-wasting nonsense clogging up a useful hashtag.

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. Therefore, a thread was made analyzing the conversation containing the racist remark for the benefit of those for whom the racism was unclear. It was also critical of the other participants in that conversation for their choice to attack a Black instance for specious reasons, but it was not a fediblock post, just a discussion.

(This was our contribution, obviously.)

content warning: suicide on the next post

feel free to skip it - it's not essential to the point, and you'll know what it said from context.

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. Therefore, everyone who disagreed with the person in whose thread the racist remark was made was told to "kys" - "kill yourself" - and members of two instances (not the original one being discussed) were told they would be beat up if they showed their faces around that person.

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. Therefore, a fediblock thread was made about a series of violent remarks directed at two other instances by the person who started the thread, a thread that was later elaborated upon to talk about a history of problematic behavior on the part of the person making the threats.

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. Therefore, the person in whose thread the racist remark was made defended, most strenuously, the innocence of her misinterpreting the name of the Black instance.

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. Therefore, criticism of the person in whose thread this remark was made was described, in passionate terms, as a hate campaign intended to silence a trans woman.

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. Therefore, a short thread was made exhorting people to talk with each other rather than make public criticisms, and declaring that everyone is flawed and they should be accepted anyway. (The poster of this thread also boosted the aformentioned it's-an-anti-trans-hate-campaign post.)

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. Therefore, people accused those talking about racism of lashon hara - speaking truths that harm someone in a way that does no good in the world - a concept about which a blog post had recently gone at least slightly viral.

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. Therefore, the instance shut down, citing the danger posed to Black participants on fedi by widespread racism and a lack of support.

A racist remark was made about a Black instance. A lot of things happened afterwards. Some of those things had to do with the racist remark. A lot of the things had to do with discrediting the critics of that remark.

Frankly, we feel a bit disheartened, too. I'm glad there's been a fair bit of support within our personal circles, but the amount of hostility we've heard about is exhausting.