When I first saw this call to action, I had a severe kneejerk reaction. I thought it was terrible, trying to stir shit and part of the anti movement, pushing for more censorship.
But I am *very* white, and I try to be better every day, so I sat down with myself and examined my feelings and read through the materials you all had up.
You've answered in depth how it NOT censorship and you're just holding Ao3 to THEIR OWN promises rather than asking Ao3 to go against their own ideals for which it was made. So I won't go into that.
What I will say, is that my rationalization of the kneejerk reaction was all based on made up ideas of what you were asking for. Because these issues don't affect me directly, because I'm not involved in the spaces where it's happened, I didn't know what you could possibly want changed, what you wanted to implement. And the things I made up that could be done *would* be censorship and *would* be going against what Ao3 was made for, so the big stumbling block was, shocker, actually reading what you had to say and what you wanted.
Thank you for this. We sincerely hope others follow your example.
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