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Girl-on-girl hate is not women calling out other women’s racism, sexism, homophobia, etc.

Literally, barring spaces/countries populated entirely by Black people, there’s nowhere I can go/no community I can engage with and be confident that i won’t experience antiblack racism.

And that includes fandom spaces.

Whenever non-US members of fandom try to shut down conversations about antiblack racism by framing said conversations as a wholly Western invention and accusing Black members of fandom in the US of “talking over other people of color” or of “US-centric discussions”, I kind of want to scream because it’s such a transparent derailing tactic.

In trying to claim that Black people talking about how systemic antiblack racism plays out in fandom spaces (via things like shipping practices/how fandom talks about Black characters and actors) is this rudely western thing that we just won’t shut up about, these fans are basically pulling from a decades’ old handbook of how to silence Black people. 

We saw it with that absolute walnut that responded to my personal post on slavery with by telling me that other people than black people were enslaved. We saw it when the Hydra Tr@sh folk were going around accusing people that weren’t about to ship T’challa with the dude who murdered his dad of having some sort of hate-on for Eastern Europeans. 

We see it every time a Black person’s opinion on racism in fandom blows up even the slightest bit.

Prior to its passage Florida was one of the four states in the country that denied felons the right to vote and it was also coincidentally the first to institute a poll tax which this new thing sounds a lot like and clearly is. […]