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Follow Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines. Non negotiable. This is the bedrock and mods will make decisions with this always in mind.
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This community is for ethnic minorities and people of color. This is a safe space where such people can freely discuss their struggles, insight, and thoughts without fear. If you are not, we respectfully ask you do not post or comment here. A future community will be established to allow for racial discussions with a mixed userbase. However, remember, comments here must still respect Lemmy TOS and Community Guidelines.
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Irony Racism is still racism. Racism is bad m'kay? We will treat irony racism and bad faith racist satire as racism. Will wield the ban hammer accordingly.
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Rare case of this not being race related (probably), and gonna have to be vague about this, but I do get grim satisfaction from seeing people slowly begin to realize that someone I called out as Bad News a year and a half ago is in fact creepy, gross, toxic, predatory. AGAIN. This is like the 7th time this has happened that I can remember off the top of my head. I don't go making this judgement willy nilly so I can have stopped clock moments, it's pretty rare that I'll assess someone this way and warn people. But I keep being vindicated eventually.
I mean I had no proof, all I had was this feeling of "his sense of humor is gross in ways I cannot articulate, and he seems unctuous. Why are y'all making friends with him? Only he can benefit from this association, at your expense, and if anything of him rubs off on you or he encourages any such tendencies in you, you will be made into a worse person. You think you can grow your small business by networking with this content creator? He'll use you and you'll be sullied by association when he gets cancelled." I tried to say as much, I was told "no you don't get him he's way better in person." I no longer even see the "friend" I'd tried to warn. But I'm seeing people complain about this dude and how he's probably going to get MeToo'd because he's very obviously gross and all I can say is, I told them. I fucking told them. May they all go down with that ship, because they deserve each other.
But it's always white people. Usually but not always men. Maybe they just get more of a pass from other people becuase of white privilege or something so the problems build up and fester.
Wow, you're quite perceptive on people. Wish I was as much as you.
Thanks, I'm highly traumatized and have learnedfrom bad experiences how to recognize a lot of bad behaviors early.
Didn't save me from getting fucked over by my most important ex though, I didn't see their toxicity or abusiveness until it was mauling me. I don't know if there's any amount of perception that can keep someone completely safe.