senadimell: jackieokcorral:derharlekin:This is just as relevant for tumblr as for twitter, so I shar
senadimell: jackieokcorral:derharlekin:This is just as relevant for tumblr as for twitter, so I share it here.Fully agree Link to original thread (August 23, 2021) [ID: a twitter thread in response to a tweet by user “penitent admirer” that reads: A disturbing amount of Online Discourse these days from the Puriteens et al is entirely a desperate effort to make the world “safe” by giving you a set of cheat codes about how to Purge the Evil From Our Midst. It’s nega-pickup artist logic, social interaction as a ruleset.It’s insightful to note that marginalised people are more likely to have their tone policed, or used as an excuse to not hear them. It does not mean that one’s tone can never be a problem under any circumstances whatsoever.Similarly, it’s insightful to note that whatever your intentions, any harm you caused remains. It does not mean that we should always conflate open hostility with simple accidents or ignorance.By calcifying such insights into inflexible rules, we gamify activism by making it a ‘winnable’ sequence of inputs. To no one’s surprise, this is part of why social justice communities are vulnerable to exploitation by bad actors. It’s very easy to *say* the right things.So easy to *say* what’s right, and perform everything to a tee. And since that’s where all the emphasis is, in viewing oppression as evidenced by social faux pas, it allows truly abusive and toxic people to pantomime their way past scrutiny for months or years.Meanwhile, it is precisely this sort of academic perfection that is most elusive for the marginalised–we who were raised in a world where compromise was a way of life.That means that, in a world where “context” can only ever be a bad faith excuse to escape accountability, you’re left with little recourse to defend yourself if you run afoul of an unwritten rule.And this means those of us, like trans women of colour, are often excluded from the spaces notionally advocating for us. Too messy, not up on the latest language, not living our politics perfectly enough.And I want to stress something here. I’ve been beating this drum since at least 2012. It’s not an issue among “teens,” though it certainly afflicts those youngest and newest to activism most acutely. It’s something elders do too. My generation does it. We *all* do.Consider the structure of every online callout: “What do we want!?” “Accountability!” “What does that mean!?” *variously confused muttering* ^This is where the rules leave us time after time. And while I don’t hold much hope these days, we can still make different choices. End ID] -- source link
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