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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 09:02:46 JST Eugen Rochko

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   • Gersande La Flèche

   @gersande Others have already linked our response to Tracy Chou, but I would like to add that at no point was "reverse sexism/racism" ever mentioned. The post was reported by a user as an "antisemitic dogwhistle" and that is how it was regrettably misinterpreted by the moderator.

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     Gersande La Flèche (gersande@silvan.cloud)'s status on Monday, 21-Nov-2022 09:02:53 JST Gersande La Flèche

     This story with Tracy Chou, an engineer who specifically works on creating tools to stifle organised harassment online, getting posts removed from mastodon.social because of "reverse sexism/racism," is maddeningly infuriating.

     We know that Mastodon's flagship instances have been having issues with moderation for a while, but this seems to point that the trend has gone from "ineffective absent moderators" to "moderators protecting the feelings of white men," which I think will backfire. It also validates every criticism the fediverse receives for being a bastion of tepid, neoliberal, unexamined racism-as-reflex whiteness.

     Link to Twitter: https://twitter.com/triketora/status/1594348646396559361?s=20&t=CBkHeo8EqdlUfI94EKr-mg

     To echo Tracy Chou's bannable offense: I also heavily recommend reading more books by non men, by non white people, and by non cisheterosexual people. What a violent ideology! Tabarnouche. :blobcatreeeeeee: