Jim Bean @jamesbeanmachine@queer.party

reminder that there's no such thing as 'hatewatching,' or dragging an ad, or quote-tweeting some racist politician. there's literally an entire school of 'outrage-based advertisting' that seeks to exploit your reactions because hating something enough to yell about it manipulates people into getting more eyes on the thing they're hawking. the idea that you Have To Respond is a brain-divot they're trying to sneak in through.

you know what does work? deplatforming.

terfs+ white nationalists+white feminism all operate together in harmony and if you participate in one you support the other.

thems the facts

me and my posts

@magicalmilly

Reminder that you don't need to use link shorteners like bit.ly etc on Mastodon.

All links on Mastodon count for 23 characters no matter how long or short they actually are.

More #MastoTips:
https://mastodon.at/@switchingsocial/tagged/mastotips

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boost if you're cute as heck!!!!!!!! :blobcatreach:​

you can't talk "punching terfs" antifa talk if you think screenshotting is a step too far when dealing with people calling for genocide

Remember, people don't call you out unless they care.

Gabbers? We write them off and block without a second chance.

If someone calls you out instead of just blocking, they're hoping you'll be able to overcome the shitty thing you said and be better.

Don't take offense to being told you were racist or whatnot, be grateful they give enough of a shit about you to let you know and give you chance to get better.

for the record: I'm white.

not that most white people care, given how poor and multiply-disabled I am.

@LexYeen the way i see it i'm basically an outcast from whiteness for genetic impurity. I'm not Good Enough for them, so fuck em.

“I get that you’re autistic and I support you but I still expect you to talk to me like a NT and if you don’t I will publicly humiliate you” is way too common of a thing

The great thing about mocking whiteness is that the only people who could possibly take offense at it are the people who cling to the notion that "white culture" is a thing.

'Cause "white culture" is actually patriarchal, cishetronormative colonial-Christian culture. It's the shitty, bland, oppressive result of stamping actual European cultures into the ground and turning them into a homogenous mess. And then inflicting that trauma on the rest of the world.

@em probably the most significant large-scale American psychology experiment was The Milgram Experiment, designed to figure out why the Germans are so mechanically obedient. Turns out that Americans were so mechanically obedient that the entire hypothesis broke down before they even tested it on a German.

If you are committed to not making this another birdsite/hellsite, your first, ultimate, top priority is keeping marginalized people protected from hateful people. That is the main and crucial difference between Mastodon and Twitter & Tumblr.

The way that a marginalized person reacts when there is a breach in this protection is not what makes this turn into a toxic place.

in a sense, it's ok to fuck up. you are going to fuck up. everyone is fucking up constantly. just say sorry, sincerely commit to doing better, and make changes. what isnt ok is fucking up and then being dismissive of the people you hurt.

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If you fuck up.... That's okay! It happens.

What you need to do then is legitimately apologise, actually understand where you went wrong, and then fix it. Make a legit effort to learn and fix it.

You get called racist? We are all unlearning generations of racism. Just admit it, apologize, learn why it was racist, and correct yourself.

No need to make a scene. No matter how embarrassed you are.

Just apologize and move on. You can gush about your embarrassment later, after you patched it over.

"this thing you did is racist" doesn't mean "you are racist" unless you stand by the racist thing you did as perfectly fine and something you are allowed to do

that's what makes you cross the line from doing to being

almost every "first-world" country currently has, or has at some point had, *major* fascist currents

people think of the nazis as special and extra evil but i really think they just got further than most fash movements manage before being stopped

poking my head out to say that telling WOC to "shut up and focus on bigger issues" whenever racism in leftist spaces surfaces makes you a bootlicking sympathizer upholding the system of oppression rather than dismantling it.