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@folkerschamel @NicolaElle @samuel @SallyStrange @steve@s.yelvington.com

Mate, I don't know how many people need to tell you the same thing.

People are in favour of their admin blocking threads, because it massively reduces the chances of them getting spanked in the face by repeated racist/transphobic/homophobic/misogynistic/fascist insults.

Now, COULD they do it themselves? Sure. But by that point, they've already seen it.

Now, for the likes of me - and assuming your picture is you - as a middle-aged cisgendered white bloke, what will happen if I see something horrifically bigoted, is that I block the individual/instance, have a few moments of distaste, and then I get on with my day because I'm not directly and personally impacted by it.

No matter how much of an ally or whatever I consider myself, I simply cannot be impacted by (eg) white supremacy in the same way as someone who isn't white. I can be angry, I can be ashamed of my fellow white people, I can feel all sorts of sadness, but at the end of the day, I'm still white.

But by the time someone who *isn't* white has seen the white-supremacy post, and blocks the person/instance, it's already too late. Now, I don't know, and will not presume to know, how it makes them feel, but I rather suspect that they feel pretty shit for a hell of a lot longer than I do.

What you're advocating for is allowing those people to feel personal discomfort/distress, so that the likes of you and I don't have to go to the effort of, oh, I dunno, joining threads and finding the decent and interesting people ourselves?

Seriously?