Ancestors

Written by the people's eva on 2025-01-16 at 17:06

So, so typical of the fediverse that an open source, non-corporate platform like pixelfed (and/or loops) is getting increasing amounts of attention while reports of the head of the project consistently and loudly being an antiblack weirdo are ignored 🙄

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Written by the people's eva on 2025-01-16 at 19:17

Unsurprisingly, I've got a lot of folks who haven't heard about these instances of antiblackness from dansup. This is how I know most fedi users in general either aren't connected to Black users or don't listen to the ones they are connected to, since this is something we have spoken about before. This is a systemic problem.

Anyway, here's a post from WP (AKA a White Person) discussing several of his posts: https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/113822469270748843

And here's a thread going into more depth about AAVE, with links to contextualize and explain why his consistent appropriation of it is indeed antiblack:

https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/113825727607965530

Edit: not because of anything anyone said, but just my own reflections-I recognize that everybody doesn't know about everything. This is part of the way the fedi works, everyone ain't connected to everyone else and that's okay. However, white folks hearing about racism and expressing surprise and/or shock is not a neutral event but a part of how white supremacy works. Y'all are sheltered by design, not happenstance. So while I am not specifically criticizing the people who came into my mentions asking for more info, I am noting that I am aware that they are part of a larger system of whiteness. Do with that info what you will.

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Written by Matthew :bi_flat: on 2025-01-16 at 20:45

@tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life I will never understand some white gays obsession of trying to sound black. Only followed him to get updates related to PixelFed and anytime I see AVVE, I feel like I'm on Stan Twitter again

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Written by L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ on 2025-01-17 at 22:07

@tillshadeisgone Some are in active denial mode. Saw one of my mutuals dismissing it as "oh, pixelfed's getting traction, so of course here comes the angry admin" as if wp being both hardline and correct just is jealousy or something.

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Written by Das on 2025-01-19 at 23:15

@tillshadeisgone thanks for highlighting.

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