Post APTmo6flSCWmTvPbgO by mekkaokereke@mastodon.cloud
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 (DIR) Post #APTmo6flSCWmTvPbgO by mekkaokereke@mastodon.cloud
       2022-11-10T20:01:04Z
       
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       I think much of my issue around the Content Warning culture on Mastodon, is the vocabulary. "Content Warning" has a very specific meaning in other contexts. Here, it is more like "Content Filter" or "Subject Line," to give readers a choice to expand or not.This feels wrong, because of other contexts where majority folks have tried to express trauma or pain at even having to hear about the racism that impacted me. Feels very much like "Ban teaching civil rights, so white kids don't feel bad."
       
 (DIR) Post #APTmo8dMA7n2Z2IiCu by mekkaokereke@mastodon.cloud
       2022-11-10T20:06:49Z
       
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       The issue of "Most white folk don't want to hear about your racism" is a related but separate issue. I don't think forcing people whose ears aren't open (or aren't open right now) to hear what they don't want to hear is fruitful anyway.🤷🏿‍♂️Over the years, a bunch of folks said I helped them become less racist. That's not true. I don't have that power. I wish I did! They made themselves less racist.What happened was, they opened their own ears, and then they could hear what I was saying.