I must admit, I do get extremely irritated at how strong people will defend white racists of their actions on here (usually shielding behind other marginalization) and throw out words like "harassment" and "digital lynching" and will try to gaslight users of color into thinking that we just... Didn't see what happened. That we don't understand racism when we experience it.
Especially when I see myself and other more vocal users of color get harassed daily, and have to always be on guard with their social media, and no one cares because everyone prioritizes white voices here and spend no time with the rest of us via an actual, unspoken segregation of this app. But somehow we don't know what racism and harassment looks like.
So when you say "hey, this person's opinion was not an okay thing to say/their actions were not okay due to racism and I am not coddling that", you get hit with a bunch of people who believe that having "More White Voices must mean True and that Your People Did Not Experience what y'all did... Because the white people around me said it went this way! You're just Mean!!!"
Like ofc that's the perspective you heard, those are the only people you're ever around on here, and it doesn't benefit you to understand what racism actually looks like in action. So. Just irritating af.
Bc ain't no way I've experienced the range of directed racism on here, damn near every two days this year on this app, and I gotta sit here and listen to how someone being racist is actually the True Victim. That people who spend all their time la di da happy and unbothered and surrounded by fellow racists and/or complicit yet ignorant bystanders... Experienced having thet racism called out and suddenly THEY are "harassed".
How thin is your skin, that we gotta do this every day and swallow the pain, but you scream in agony the moment someone points out the truth. Okay. To quote my parents, I can give you something to cry about.
This post is not about the damn circus people, btw. This post is about every situation the shoe fits, because it's really that common.
