AnthonyJK-Admin
@damon @mekkaokereke @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
So, why is harassment of Black folk on the Fedi that much more noxious than harassment everywhere else? X/T is running Black folks now off by the gallons due to the monetization of open hate speech there. We do have mods and admin here who are running their own particular instances into the ground, but that's the price of decentralization and federation.
AnthonyJK-Admin
@mekkaokereke @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
Dawg, I am indeed very much Black.
I find it quite insulting, in fact, that you, who claim to want to protect Black users of this app, would even have the gall to question my experiences and even my race merely because I disagree with your tactics.
mekka okereke :verified:
@AnthonyJK @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
🤔How are you Black? Are you "Black but I don't know any other Black people" Black? Has anyone I know seen you being Black in real life? Do we have any Black mutuals? If so, who?
How do you know so little about the Black experience online?
Something ain't adding up.
AnthonyJK-Admin
@mekkaokereke @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
OK....why in THEE HELL would I spend the past 14 years on social media pretending to be Black, with the political philosophy I have followed for the balance of my lifetime? I'm too damn poor to be playing such games.
mekka okereke :verified:
@AnthonyJK @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
I have that gall. And I'm not your dawg.
I asked who our mutuals are, if any. I asked who I know, that you know, that's seen you be Black in real life. It's not a complicated question.
And I asked how you don't know questions that are so common to so many Black people's experiences.
You might be Black! And if so, that's great, and I love that for you.
But you might be one of the thousands of people we find online pretending to be Black.
AnthonyJK-Admin
@mekkaokereke @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
I am a very hard Left of center individual with views on plenty of issues that are generally not in the mainstream of Black political thought. Plus, I tend to be a loner to begin with.
But trust me on this: I am indeed Black. Maybe not your particular favored kind of Black, but very Black nevertheless.
mekka okereke :verified:
@AnthonyJK @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
I'm not questioning your Blackness because you question my tactics. A lot of Black people question my tactics. We're not a monolith.
I'm questioning your Blackness because you talk like someone that's never been in community with other Black folk online. That's weird.
I'm trying to understand how that's possible.
AnthonyJK-Admin
@psychictides @mekkaokereke @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
Yeah, I realize that. I'm not one of them, though.
Should I forge a picture along with my birth certificate to prove that I am who I am?
We Got One
@AnthonyJK @mekkaokereke @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski I don’t know you personally at all, but you know that pretending to be Black online is like a thing that White people do, right?
AnthonyJK-Admin
@mekkaokereke @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
Google my Twitter ID of @RGC_BPPA and ask plenty of my followers and moots there.
So, because I don't talk or think like your conception of "Black", you conclude that I am not Black?
Really???
Not even entertaining this this morning. I'm outta here.
mekka okereke :verified:
@AnthonyJK @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
I don't know why Rachel Dolezal did what she did either. 🤷🏿♂️
14 years online? With who? Who has seen you IRL and can confirm that you're Black?
If you don't wanna answer, that's cool. But I'm OG "YourSlipIsShowing," so I don't engage with folks that claim to be Black, that don't talk like they're Black or understand common Black experience things, that I can't confirm are Black.
AnthonyJK-Admin
@mekkaokereke @damon @thisismissem @emilygorcenski
Sorry, but you do not get to lecture me on what the "Black experience" on the Fediverse is like, especially considering that I have faced plenty of harassment and hate speech from channers and bigots alike, even to the point of adopting and maintaining my own blocklists. Also, I am a 13 year user
of social media apps like Twitter/X, and I joined Mastodon 3 years ago, so at least I have more than my share of experiences.
Deal that elsewhere.
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