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mekka okereke verified @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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US people: If you are white, not racist, not a supporter of ethnic cleansing, but are struggling to pay bills, or don't know how you will afford food next month...

First of all, I am genuinely sorry for the stress you are dealing with. Truly.

Second, this stress was placed on you intentionally. By racists.

Their idea is that you will stop caring about other people and become more racist as you become more desperate.

These racists don't care about helping other white people. They don't care about you.

They care about hurting Black and brown people, and creating their white ethnostate.

They happily shared stats showing that in pre-war Germany, the nazi party got the most support where hunger and hardship were highest.

They also celebrated the eugenic cruelty that followed the Influenza pandemic, back when "long Covid" or "long flu" were not terms that people understood.

No, I do not think that they invented Covid in a nazi lab.🤦🏿‍♂️

But the worst of them definitely celebrated its arrival, and said "Let 'er rip, this helps us," at first because of the high Black death toll, and later because of the impact on the elderly, and the desperation and healthcare callousness.
Twitter screenshot: @mekkaokerekebye An official DOD webpage posted an article celebrating a Nazi war criminal yesterday. It barely made the news. The Alt-Right wrote years ago that a widespread US economic crash and food insecurity, was necessary to foment the callousness required to proceed to the "next phase." 9:09 AM Dec 18, 2019
Twitter screenshot: Mekkaokerekebye Dec 18, 2019 The theory is: Many white people will care less about adequate nutrition or flu vaccines for brown people in concentration camps, if they themselves are starving and without medicine. This will allow the camp death toll to rise without actually needing to execute people.
Twitter screenshot: Mekkaokerekebye What're black folk saying today? * If you don't stop the GOP from deregistering /disenfranchising us, Dems will lose in 2020. And y'all will act surprised. Again. * 2020 Trump is gloves off, Phase 2. * Buttigieg is trash * Biden is trash, but we know what's in the can.
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celeste_hearts_lesbianceleste_hearts_transceleste_hearts_demisexual flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinking @star@amazonawaws.com
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@mekkaokereke Could you please put content warnings on this post?
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mekka okereke verified @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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I respect your need to protect your mental health. I do.

But I'm not putting CWs on every one of my posts that describes policy decisions that affect every Black person in America. That's not going to happen.

I don't post graphic imagery without CWs. But the whole point of my Mastodon account is to shine a light on the systemic harms which are usually hidden.

So your choices are:
* Block me
* Use a Mastodon client that allows you to do some NLP on posts and do the filtering on your side

No hard feelings if you block me! ♥️👍🏿
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mekka okereke verified @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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You swear a lot in your posts. Some people are very offended by swear words.

If someone asked you to put a CW on every single one of your posts that included a swear word, you might find that unreasonable.

You might instead put a disclaimer on your profile, and ask people to unfollow / block.
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celeste_hearts_lesbianceleste_hearts_transceleste_hearts_demisexual flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinking @star@amazonawaws.com
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@mekkaokereke If that request came from a place of honesty then I'd personally do my very best to try and figure out a way to reduce potential problems any harm, instead of telling the people who are trying to voice their concerns to "block me or use another client". Putting politics behind a content warning is nothing new and incredibly common etiquette here on Fedi. As a transgender nonbinary person I absolutely understand wanting to shine light on systemic issues. But there's no sense in doing so if your way of exercising it brings people closer to a personal crisis.
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celeste_hearts_lesbianceleste_hearts_transceleste_hearts_demisexual flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinking @star@amazonawaws.com
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@mekkaokereke I also do not appreciate your whataboutism. That's just bad form. Also not sure about whether that's even true"
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mekka okereke verified @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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White people view Black people living their lives as "politics." I reject that framing.

Just like I reject the framing of trans people living their lives as "politics." A trans person is not politics. A Black person is not politics.

Politics is "Should we raise the taxes? Or "Should we lower the taxes?" Not "Should we do some ethnic cleansing?" Or "Should trans people exist?"

And your "common etiquette" on the Fedi sucks, and is why there are no Black people here.

I was polite the first time. I'm still being a gentleman about it for the moment, but the answer is still no. I'm not CW posts about racism that affects every Black person in the US. Your choices are still block/unfollow, or put the filters on the client side. I know that you know how to code, so you know how to do that.

But expecting me to put CWs on all my posts about racism, is never going to happen. You can keep asking, but the answer remains no.
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celeste_hearts_lesbianceleste_hearts_transceleste_hearts_demisexual flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinking @star@amazonawaws.com
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mention of trans harm, transphobia, genocide, racism @mekkaokereke The answer will remain no because you are inconsiderate. You are putting your desire to call out systemic issues above everyone else's desire to have a mindful community in which hard triggers can be avoided.

My intent was not to frame your post as politics. I totally agree with your point that human rights, equality and equity are not politics. Genuinely sorry if it came across this way.

The larger point is that we need not push people who are already in personal crises to their absolute limit by taking away their tools of feed moderation, because someone thinks their issue is just too important. There is a genocide going on against my people. We need not fight, but to be united against our oppressors. My pain is different from your pain, but strangely similar in a lot of ways. This is not about importance or restricting speech. It is about protecting our communities, where many already live in fear or despair. People in fear and despair do not rise, they do not fight, they do not resist. They hide. We do not need to push people into a corner any further. We should, nay, must empower them.
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mekka okereke verified @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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No,

The answer is that you're another selfish white person on Mastodon that expects Black people to put CWs on everything we post, and you throw a little tantrum when the answer is no.

Black people usually do one of two things at this point:
1. Leave the Fediverse, or
2. Tell you to go away.

I'm telling you to go away.

You've asked for something, you've heard that the answer is no. So why are you still here? If you believe that my unwillingness to put content warnings on everything that I post is inconsiderate, then why don't you block me and be done with it? Why would you want to have access to such an inconsiderate person's posts? Perhaps all Black people are inconsiderate? Maybe racism is right? Block us all!

Will there be anything else?
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celeste_hearts_lesbianceleste_hearts_transceleste_hearts_demisexual flori_ava_star:~cursor_blinking @star@amazonawaws.com
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@mekkaokereke
then why don't you block me and be done with it?
Because I am not an all-or-nothing type of person. Discourse, even if heated, is valuable. Not just to you or me, but to witnesses and outsiders.

I really do not appreciate your framing and your apparent unwillingness to engage in genuine discourse. You call marginalized and mentally ill people names, which pains to see me, because you are apparently able to do that and sleep well at night.

The only one currently throwing a tantrum is yourself. I could now be extremely cynical and say "you're just another cisgender person on Mastodon that expects transgender individuals to accept the way you behave unconditionally, or to exclude themselves from all discourse unconditionally"

However, that would be fucking ridiculous, no? Think about that.
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mekka okereke verified @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
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You speak as if Black people don't have mental health issues, or as if there aren't hundreds of thousands of Black trans people on Twitter.

The Black people on social media with mental health issues that are traumatized by racism, enjoy my posts! It helps them. They are hurt when I post things and people like you ask me to CW everything. I choose to prioritize their needs over yours.

Yes, I am just another cisgender dude online! Guilty! 🙋🏿‍♂️ And I'm one of those annoying hypermasculine straight guys to boot! Mr MMA man, boxer, college football player, powerlifter, bench press record holder, captain of the college rugby team, worked as a bouncer, dated dancers, still talks about his undefeated high school football team at 40+ years old, you know the type! Yuck!

But no, I don't expect anything of trans people. I don't expect anything of anyone other than for them to leave when they ask me to CW something and I say no. I've given you two options: Block / mute / unfollow, or accept my super Black posts.

And I'm immune to people that try to use their other marginalized identities to try to get Black people to stop talking about Black things.

So no, there will be no CW.

We can keep going, or you can go away.
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@mekkaokereke
ohhhhhh! people like me! Gotcha neocat_think
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