Alright. You say no DNI, so I'm just going to ask. If I get blocked for this. I have my answer. đ I have nothing but respect.
I'm curious where the daylight exists between your recent post [clarifying your blog's purpose and audience] and "White people DNI"
Like, I want to follow because I'm interested in learning about different people and cultures. Never met a Black Neutral irl (that I clocked anyway).
But that would 100% be using your blog to educate and enrich myself intellectually. Which I read your post as explicitly stating was unacceptable. Hence, I should not follow. I would literally be treating you like a zoo: Somewhere I go to see something cool, but not interact or contribute.
So like, is there some acceptable scenario you can think of where a Straight White Cis Man could respectfully follow your blog?
yes, many of scenarios actually. and tbh, based on your message i think you kinda already answered your question but iâll elaborate anyway.
thereâs a weird form of dehumanization of and supremacy above black people (and culturally illegible minorities, aros and aces for example) that self proclaimed âanti-racistsâ like to impose onto us: I liked to call it the âHuman Googleâ or âHumanGPTâ stereotype, where our only purpose and use for white people comes from not just answerinâ any question they have with no limitations but beinâ completely controlled by the flow of âuserâ conversation. basically, we cannot have intracommunity conversations if itâs not related to anti-racism or something directly relatable to white people. people like this tend to think of a âno iâm not answerinâ thatâ as a barrier to learninâ, similar to gettinâ no search results in a search engine.
the problem with this is that answerinâ questions take time out of a personâs day; when even educators be sayinâ that they work is a form of labor, they not lyinâ nor exaggeratinâ. There goes time i could be codinâ, singinâ, drawinâ, paintinâ, etc. why must i lose hours of my day just to enrich you when we have the digital version of the Library of Alexandria in our hands? i really just want to live and i deserve to, and thatâs this space is for: to let black transneu just live.
thereâs also the idea that you entitled to an answer anyway. like, think of what you might be wantinâ to learn about: racism is a sensitive topic for us because it directly attributes to our sufferinâ, culture is the way we see and engage with ourselves and our humanity or beinâ; many of us already want to gatekeep to prevent cultural appropriation (ex. white people takinâ our slang and language for memes just to call it corny weeks later).
so, what do you do to not treat others like Human Google or HumanGPT? kinda like you already said, engage and interact like both you and we are worthy of respect. you need to respect yourself enough to where you donât need to feel like the center of attention 24/7 to not feel undoubtably hated or excluded. this space was created out of personal frustration with little resources and little community as a black transneu, so i can see why you beinâ of the ultra-mega majority group, a cishet white man, would be curious of a group like us. but we not just a group, we a group of people. people you can engage with and not really take notes from. relate and laugh and cry with us as you wish. you can be in the community, just donât get your ass put out.
