Notices by William Pietri (williampietri@sfba.social)

@foone For those wondering, it looks like that's not how it came from the factory: https://deskthority.net/wiki/Qtronix_QX-032

I have real trouble getting my head around the way we nearly eliminated flu season for a year and now we're right back to accepting tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths per year. Same with Covid, of course. How many other lives could we save with modest change?

@stevestreza
This is true, but your analysis is not complete. Privilege is also involved for somebody to say their need for an audience outweighs the harm they are doing by supporting a guy who today is literally blaming the Jews.
@aral

I really try to assume good faith. I was once a chump who grew up with deep ignorance of white supremacy, of how pervasive and insidious it is. Breaking out of that ignorance was not comfortable, but it was worthwhile. So for people who appear to be sincere, I try to give one sincere useful reply, to see what happens.

This almost never goes well. As DiAngelo writes, "White Fragility is a state in which even a minimum amount of racial stress becomes intolerable, triggering a range of defensive moves. These moves include the outward display of emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and behaviors such as argumentation, silence, and leaving the stress-inducing situation. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium." https://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/viewFile/249/116

I often see white people complain that nobody will educate them about racism.

Let's set aside them making it to adulthood without knowing key facts about how the world works. Let's ignore that they've apparently never bothered to read a book. Let's just grudgingly move past their entitlement to think they can peep like baby birds and have predigested knowledge delivered to them instantly.

Let me instead focus on how these supposedly curious people do not want to know shit. Here's my latest example. And before I could even reply, Mr White Fragility blocked me.

So in short, if you are a white person wondering why nobody will educate you, the answer may be that you're acting like the many, many white people who claim they want to learn but then do absolutely anything besides learn.

Holy shit. In less than 24 hours, I have had two apparently earnest white dudes in entirely separate discussions suggest that maybe the best way to deal with Mastodon being a bad experience for many Black people is to have more Black-run instances. To which Black people would presumably move for safety. That is, their solution to white racism is segregation.

Not only is digital ethnic cleansing is one of the fucking goals of a lot of the racist shitheads, but this also makes it the job of Black people to clean up after white racism. Which is itself systemic racism. How about instead, white people take on the responsibility of limiting the ability of other white people to cause racist harm?