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A Fedi-Coming-to-Jesus:

More than even the threat of , if the does not address its anti-Blackness in the general populace, it will rot the community from the inside out.

You can hate me for mentioning it if you want, but you know it's true. Deep down, you can feel it, too. Sometimes, we’re afraid to admit a problem we don't immediately know how to fix.

And that's fine—it's human. But history is clear about what happens if we don't figure this out.

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fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻

There’s a specific flavor of aggression that comes from non-conservative, predominately white digital spaces. I think it draws from insecurity, almost like a projection.

had it, to an extent, in the 2010s. As liberal-leaning as the hell-site was, there was always an unsettling presence of anti-Blackness. It was never overt, at least in the more liberal corners.

It was more like the persistent humming of an air conditioner— easy to tune out, but if you listened you could hear it.

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It's this festering insecurity that makes communities vulnerable to infiltration of the more caricaturized form of racism. 

Explicit expressions of white supremacy are often forced to live in the margins of polite society. So, it must hide in coded language and micro-aggressions.

But that's not where WS wants to be. It wants to live in the sunlight, out in the open for all to see. So, WS is constantly scanning for cracks in societal norms.

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And when white supremacy finds a sufficiently sized crack, which is never as big as we’d think, it pushes through until that crack is a gaping chasm of rushing water.

History confirms this narrative— Punks, wellness, cottagecore, furries—all well-meaning, predominantly white spaces that didn’t deal with the hums of anti-Blackness until it was too late.

They chose to get defensive instead of introspective.

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And Twitter? Well, we all know what happened there, right? White supremacy found a crack and exploited it.

Because its never, ever, enough to simply call out cartoonish forms of racism. It’s the insidious kind that always gets us.

It thrives in environments where we falsing believe that our political ideologies exempt us from rasicm. It scans the corners of the web that willfulling ignore the absence of certain people.

The is not exempt. In fact, those cracks are well established.

The one thing about white Twitter spaces that always baffled me was how often their approach to Black liberation was simply to ignore Black liberators.

I don't mean metaphorically. I mean how Academia Twitter, intellectual twitter, journalist Twitter, all, would just straight up ignore Black activists in the comments.

Tell a prominent white academic that their worldview is incomplete, and doesn't consider people of color, and its crickets 🦗. Always.

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@fromjason
I didn't know there was anti blackness in flurries. You're dressing up as a different species, and you're getting worked up about skin color? I just don't understand people.

I didn't even know that there was a name for cottage core. I just thought it was hideous ass paintings and stuff made by people who went to hobby lobby. Since I associate that with conservative white rural folks I would be surprised if there wasn't.

@fromjason
(season 1):
Twitter has long been described, even by its most ardent users, as a hellsite. But under Elon Musk, Twitter has evolved into a platform that is indistinguishable from the wastelands of alternative social-media sites such as Truth Social and Parler. It is now a right-wing social network.