When the people in the Mastodon Discord call you out on co-opting and generalising the 'HOA' analogy from Black folk, that's an attempt to create a safe space - not for you, but for people vastly more in need of actual safe spaces. You interpret this as 'problematic', as lack of rational discourse, because you're being held accountable for the things you say and for the harm those things perpetuate.
You are framing the people who are trying to create genuine safe spaces as irrational - 🧵