Notices by Gorgeous Killer (are0h@h-i.social), page 2

@tillshadeisgone And when we try to do our own thing they got something to say about that too.

They don’t have any ideology outside of hating Black and Brown folks.

So this is a great example of what white queers do.

When all this happened a few weeks ago, I addressed the part that I got wrong and spoke about why.

But, as people who centralize their whiteness over everything else, there is a conservative effort to focus on the part they deem is important while ignoring the entirety of the situation.

There is no mention of the comments I made about the aftermath of that situation where I reflected a bit, nor any mention of the admin of tech lgbt enabling racist abuse against me for going on a year now because I exposed one of their mods as the flashpoint for the hate campaign against #TheBadSpace, who even admitted they were wrong.

None of that matters to this person because they want to ignore what they reason is not important: constant harm against Black folks.

This a sterling example of how racism and the comfortability of hateful people is the core principle of people who constantly profess to be progressives.

This is a great example of why Black folks do not like the fediverse. https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/113176431826349375

Vanta could have easily reached out to me so we could talk about it but made the choice to take the word of bigots over the person that has actually been experiencing abuse for as long as I’ve been on the fedi.

This choice is not an accident.

This is a specific choice by a person who values whiteness over community and context.

This is how white supremacy perpetuates itself.

It forgives the constant harm of bigots easily and without examination while demonizing the people who are the targets of it and ignoring the context of how we deal with it.

The point that drives this home is her line stating she cannot stand by while her alleged fellow queers are dehumanized.

Let’s break this down.

Black and Brown folks on here are dehumanized, disrespected and attacked here on a daily basis, but I rarely see Vanta have the same level hostility for those that attack us that she has for me when I defend myself from a serial abuser.

This leads me to believe she only cares about white and white passing queers not the queer community as a whole especially as she is hostile in her defense of a person that is a known harasser of Black folks and is in community with spaces known for targeting Black and Brown communities.

There can be no forgiveness and understanding for the targets of bigots but unending empathy is shown for white and white passing folks who have a history of harm.

Despite all of the radical verbiage she has in her profile, she is trafficking in the same ole anti-Blackness as every other bigoted community we know and track here.

She’s made her choice in terms of who she wants to make a safe space for.

And it does not include Black and Brown folks.

As the saying goes, when people show you who they are, believe them.

Vanta again doubles down on her whiteness here.

Even though I addressed the situation and acknowledged my missteps, it’s not good enough for her.

She wants me to grovel and beg for the forgiveness of a serial abuser because that’s what an ‘apology’ is for a white supremacist.

I go into context at length about what happened, and what is still happening, from my perspective, but she completely throws that out and calls it ‘minimizing’ while still not even addressing the history of harassment I talk about out.

You see how that works? You see how no matter what I say or do it’s not good enough because my harm and abuse simply does not matter?

That’s racism folks. Pure and uncut dehumanization that simply disregards the context of Black and Brown folks and how we are targeted in this space.

Have you ever seen her this upset about people and instances known to perpetuate hate?

Have you ever seen her this angry and dismissive of anyone not Black.

Think about that. Think about the rage she shows in defense of a serial harasser. Look at the hostility she shows.

That’s a dead giveaway concerning what she values.

https://cyberpunk.lol/@vantablack/113177349466718449

Here’s on thing you can count on about me.

If I make a mistake, I cop to it. 10 times out of 10. I’m a grown person that will deal with the consequences of my actions both good and bad. I’m a big boy. I have a very definitive history of being able to reflect and adapt.

People that ignore this aspect of my personality are trying to reduce me to a version of that personality that does not exist to push a dehumanizing narrative about what I am. And we all know that is a core column of whiteness.

This is why I ignore and dismiss people who try to tell me what I am about as if my history in the fedi is not clear.

I am so much more than the colorless impressions people concoct of me based assumptions rather than curiosity.

And people hate me because I will not humor their dehumanized interpretations of my personhood.

People despise me because I’m going to continue to be my weird, intense, complicated and wonderful self.

People loathe me because I’m going to be human despite their provocations.

Think about that.

This thread highlights one of the things I don’t like the most about people on the fedi: the insufferable arrogance of people (usually tech folks) who think this place should stick to their narrow vision and openly disparage anything that deviates from from that.

The beauty of the fedi is we can literally do anything we want here. It doesn’t have to be one way or the other. There is enough space on the internet for us to have our own special little places.

The dogma I see from people complaining about not wanting ads, when you are literally promoting stuff in your bio or not wanting influencers when we boost the sentiments we agree with and saying everything should be free when being on the fedi costs money is so ridiculous it’s beginning to border on straight up bigotry. It’s ok if one doesn’t like these things, but fighting to keep them out of the fedi because of that is replicating the centralized environments we say we allegedly one to get away from.

Not having these things is not what differentiates the fedi from centralized platforms. Giving people the tools to build whatever experience they want safely is what is going to put this place over the top.

Anything less than that and it’s just recreating less featured versions of stuff we already have.

Mekka does a good job of laying out why basing the direction of the fedi based on what we don’t like is a losing game, especially when those dislikes are based on shallow and myopic points.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/113175753949699152

My dislikes of places like TikTok outpace my likes, but one of the things it has over the fedi is diversity of content, which is ridiculous to me considering it’s a closed platform with wonky curation.

I can fun stuff, serious stuff, comforting and informative stuff all together because it has a variety of people from all walks of life sharing what they think is interesting.

The fedi has always fought against this diversity while claiming this place is ‘better’ while refusing to acknowledge the tooling is worse, safety is an after thought in most places and most fedi projects are managed by untrustworthy people.

I believe in the fedi becoming the de facto experience on the web, but there is a lot of to do to get there. We still haven’t realized the potential of this place because, quite honestly the platforms we have at the moment are not good enough for use by people who don’t have extensive experience in tech. And that’s not even getting into the inherent bigotry of the fedi for anything not white.

This place still just lacks the basics when it comes to building dynamic communities.

If it was Black folks making bomb threats in Ohio, they would have sent in the national guard by now.

But nah, white people get a chance to ‘cool off’ after terrorizing people for no fucking reason.

It’s funny how all the people that hate #TheBadSpace don’t actually do anything to help the queer people they allegedly care about.

They don’t give any mutual aid. They don’t boost queer voices. They don’t organize any mutual aid efforts. They don’t create any environments that encourage people to speak in a way that conflicts with their bigotry.

Their ‘support’ of queer communities is literally just stalking people they don’t like, constantly lying and disparaging a tool built specifically to allow queer communities to curate their spaces instead of playing what a mole with bigots everyday.

People say a lot about me, but one thing that has remained true about my presence in the fedi since PV is that I show up consistently for targeted communities. TBS is just one way I do it, but I make myself known in tangible ways because I actually do care.

The same cannot be said for the hateful people that constantly stalk my timeline but ignore that part.

The US is a death cult. https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/113126578686838119

Here’s what I do know.

People jumped down my throat because I got the pronouns wrong of a serial harasser and abuser who is white-passing.

Eris, who is white, and her merry band of anti-Black fucks REGULARLY misgenders trans folks and say Black and Brown folks aren't trans enough on a consistent basis and nobody has shit to say about that.

This has been happening for years. This is how I know a lot of so-called progressives don't actually care about trans folks because they only have something to say when it's time to defend a bigot.

Y'all aren't defending trans people. You are defending whiteness.

And if you’re wondering what I’m referring to.."

Here’s a mod actively encouraging snitching https://union.place/@kabrams/113099521285597637

But still claiming to be ACAB https://union.place/@kabrams/113104870784234865

This is complete and utter nonsense. You can’t have it both ways.

If you’re asking people to report folks to the feds, you’re the ops.

Only a deranged bigot clearly undercut their stated principles to attack Black and Brown people with the threat of state violence.

Thats a key trait in how state violence works.

LOL, you can’t claim to believe ACAB but encourage your followers to report a Brown person to the feds for stating clearly they will defend themselves from hate.

You’re just a racist hiding being words.

There's a thing happening on the TikToks where people are calling white people European Americans and they are LOSING IT.

I can't stop laughing.

When I say the greatest threat to US progress has always been white people, it’s not just something I say.

It’s just an objective assessment.

https://www.salon.com/2017/09/19/new-study-white-people-lack-empathy-across-the-socioeconomic-spectrum/

@aetataureate There’s a reason why Trump is so popular despite it being common knowledge he is unfit to run a gas station much less public office.

He knows what white people want to hear. And they love him for it.

@Catwoman69y2k @Aliqqae Yeah, that’s the core of the problem. And Mastodon has a reputation for blocking attempts by contributors who want to address that problem.

I don’t agree about Bluesky they are VC funded so they have a priority for growth over sustainability, so they are going to do the bare minimum in terms of safety, just like every other centralized platform.

Bluesky isn’t a better option than Mastodon because they are just trying to recreate a corporate platform in a decentralized space.

But I completely understand why Black and Brown folks would go there instead trying Mastodon.

The Mastodon project has not made any significant progress in a long time and has a well earned reputation for ignoring the needs of its userbase.

So unfortunately many have to choose between the lesser of two evils.

Again.

Think about it like this.

Harris has raised about half a billion since she announced. Half a billion US dollars, with much of that coming from small donations.

That represents more collective power than voting because imagine what we could accomplish is that money was applied to community needs.

We have the means to provoke massive social change right now.

The problem has always been that most Americans identity with oppressors than the oppressed. So around in circles we go pretending we don’t have solutions and asking the worst people in our society to solve problems they never cared about.