At the risk of whatever, half this feed is #thebadspace type stuff; you know, the thing that's all about banning lots of servers and stopping them from connecting from one another
That's the lie. There is no mean where a project that's voluntary for instances results in what you are claiming. And people have been explaining that to you for like 48 hours now.
"banning lots of servers; and thus potentially preventing black folks from reaching each other across the fediverse, resulting in a lower prevalence/visibility of tags such as #blackmastodon
@jrm4@bageera@BigAngBlack@blackmastodon@BlackMastodon Thats a very different claim. But I still dont agree. It presupposes two contradictory things, instances that care about moderation, and making spaces safe for would participate, but also harbor so many people attaccing blacc folks that they'd be recommended for block (no automation as such)
I agree, I'm just trying to find the rules of the road.
I've seen topics on #blackfedi with ppl responding but nothing trending.
Then you have Dr Berry with her posts on black history, with the proper amount of responded ( one would think) and correct hashtag usage and still no trending, but a Catsaturnday with 4 trending has better visibility. Especially with more people moving to this platform.
Lets go back to that though. What lawyer on the face of the planet..doesn't respect the meaning of, the use of, the influence behind and the history of words and terms? lol
Might wanna give that a bit more thought. I mean we are on the internet. Dude doesn't even have to be black to begin with.
Okay dude, you're now just reading in a whole lot of shit that I didn't say. Honestly, everything from you is devolving into a cluttered mess.
There are obviously a lot of interesting and disparate ideas going on in your head and that's fine; you could probably get somewhere by doing some more reading.
You boiled that down to "banning lots of servers and stopping them from one another". Which is tantamount to saying the civil war in america was about land rights.
i'm just trying to figure out how to get more black people on mastodon and read stuff about that
clearly, you are trying to solve 100 years racism with a series of posts -- on a platform that already has about statistically zero black folks on it, and i genuinely do wish you the best of luck with that, but apologies if i'm skeptical in your ability to do so? i am sorry that i can't help you with this
Doing that. Like we've all seen you do. Does the exact opposite. It helps harbor an enviorment in which white racists can continue using the term to silence black people.
@jrm4@NoFlexZone@bageera@BigAngBlack@blackmastodon@BlackMastodon Getting more black people to use mastodon. Does not include attempting to paint valid, logical and moral concerns over the use of language normally and specifically in the context of a black person (ro) being ddos'ed and stalked for well over a month over #thebadspace which literally started because white people attempted to use the term.
Race/black card. Further as a means to silence black people.
Pointing out strategies used by racist white people over the SPAN of hundreds of years non-stop. Isn't attempting to fight against hundreds of years of racism.
What is it though is giving black people as well as anyone willing to listen. The tools to be able to fight the psychological manipulation/propaganda america has been spewing in general.
So it won't negatively effect as many black people and people in general.
I honestly didn't much imagine that my little goofy posts here were valuable or interesting enough to screenshot and repost, but I guess they are, so I'm flattered.
To further explain. This was one of the FIRST comments regarding ro and thebadspace. Upon which ALL other complains stemmed from. Race/black card. And you evaluated it as ro being at fault instantly.
@jrm4@NoFlexZone@bageera@BigAngBlack@blackmastodon@BlackMastodon Right. You're once again ignoring and dismissing the term race/black card. As if racist white people haven't been using that term to silence any and all black people pointing out racism for hundreds of years non-stop.
Hence why YOU need to be taught (a so called lawyer who is suppose to be using words in your literal profession...unless you're lying your ass off) the influence words/terms have.
Why you're against looking further into the race/black card. Why you would probably say any and every time a black person says white people we somehow all mean any and all white people? Why you think mastodon should be popular instead safe?
for the record, no? Ro never said or implied that at all? I do want to have the record be accurate.
He did what you're doing, but a little worse, reposted something I said and pointed to it along the lines of "hey, everyone, look at this sellout." Childish stuff, yes --but no, he never directly questioned my blackness.
I don't want popularity for this platform over the safety of blacc people. To me its more important for Mastodon to be more safe, than it is for it to be more popular
That seems to be key about @jrm4 's post. That is a position, just not a popular one on #blackmastodon
Because if you care about the health of black people. And further. The health of black people on mastodon. Then you'll understand what the race/black card term means. And would be against it.
If you want harm to come to black people though? Well, you'll do/say what he's doing/saying.
But. If i'm in the business of pointing out strategies used against black people. Then i'm in the business of pointing out strategies used against black people.
And all dude has been spewing for days now. Is. Strategies used against black people. So. I'mma point'm out.
The law for the most part is argued with words. Words pointing toward evidence. And i along with others have done both.
"Harm?" My parents were harmed. Black men in the justice system are harmed. Cops often cause actual harm to people who look like us. We're harmed when people deny us jobs and economic freedom. That is HARM.
All of this Mastodon mess that I have seen is overwhelmingly mostly just nerds (myself absolutely included) going blah-blah back and forth and isn't real HARM. If it is, LOG OFF
Is there a difference? Can you not find a difference? If not. Why can't you? What's wrong in your mind that you can't? How can someone's mind be geared toward a wrong evaluation of something to begin with? Where do thoughts come from? How do they develop?
@jrm4@NoFlexZone@bageera@BigAngBlack@blackmastodon@BlackMastodon When a black man in america says racism no longer exists in america. Do you A. Say that's bullshit and he's just trying to win identity politics points for white people so they favor him. On account of it connecting with propaganda saying/implying black people who point out racism are automatically wrong.
Or are you asking for proof that the whole thebadspace thing started from racist white people using race/black card as a means to automatically dismiss/ignore a black person's suggestion that racism exists on mastodon when every last black person on this knows it does?
I watched this go on for far too long on tags that I'VE made to not say something.
As one of the "seven" Black people on this platform, you are sadly mistaken.
The reason why Black people aren't on this platform are because of the racism and tribalism that permeates on the platform that keep us from being great on it.
The reason why you aren't seeing shit like "Keith Lee Takes" is because Black folks were scare off the platform when the Great Migration took place a year ago.
So many of us came here to share what was happening in our lives to be "tone policed" into how we can post about it on the biggest instances on this damn platform.
By the way, I've talked to many Black folks who, when I was trying to get them to leave Musky Musk's newly purchased hellsite for Mastodon, expressly told me the reason they weren't coming here was because of the racism and general unsafe feelings they were getting from here.
So, you can take the drama to your mama, because until we dismantle the racism here, it ain't gonna be here.
I think I saw something about "more important to be popular than safe"
Not sure if you stand by that statement but that sounds real "Free Speech" right-wingy. Pretty sure that's the whole objective/problem for every other social platform that's causing general harm, especially Xitter
Exactly, and even if it is(which in don't think it is) shouldn't black "right-wing" people be allowed on black mastodon.
My perspective is more speech that drives a point generates interactions. More so than just giving an opinion. This was more in a general sense overall to social media, and the more conversations had the more people stick around and become invested
@jrm4@bageera@BigAngBlack I mean that's called #professionalism and if one can't do it then they should not pit themselves voluntarily into a position where they'd have to do so.
I.e.
"If you can't CPR a person for being a fash POS then maybe you should not become a paramedic/firefighter/nurse/doctor/surgeon/anaesthesist/... in the first place!"
Because as despicable as they may be, they should;not get the honor of martyrdom by one's hands or rather lack thereof.
Yeah, and honestly the only reason I'm comfortable even just talking about all this publicly is that -- I want Mastodon to be thing thing, including, and perhaps especially for black folks, and if you're a public-ish face of blackness here, I have to call it out.
(Had a bad feeling about him when he did a real childish thing when we were discussing something else; he did a "hey everyone, look at the sellout!")
@jrm4@bageera@BigAngBlacknodds in agreement
It's one thing if he exploded in raged discussions or if he constantly shows bad behaviour that is inexcuseable by Modi Operandi.
And if literally using made-up claims of racism as baseball bat against any critic isn't despicable enough, having his groupies literally endorse death threats against other marginalized people (i.e. trans*) when those affected of those the harstest are black (see all the TWoC mourned at TDOR) is just pure assholeism.
yep. what did it for me was, it was incredible how people so singularly, weirdly obsessed with micromanaging others' speech reduced credible-reading threats as a joke and a spoof of a copypasta, and I was chastised like a 5 yr old for "not respecting boundaries" for something that was never even reported by anyone as an issue.
that whole corner is absolute poison and reads like USA-right morality posturing. block all of it AND the sockpuppets.
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