Ki's Scrumbler Sanctuary

was perusing the cohost meta tag and i saw someone call people talking about how racism is moderated on the site a "moral panic". they are blocked now obviously but its so indicitive of how some posters on this site refuse to listen to any critisism bc they THINK it MIGHT come from people they BELIEVE are "anti-cohost trolls" when its literally cohosters of colour saying "i WANT to like this site, but i can't be here if staff doesnt do something about the racism". worst part is i highly doubt reporting them will do anything bc 1. they're a known staff defender/friend-of-a-friend and historically nothing happens when you report those people, and 2. its a vaguepost so my report would have to be along the lines of "you just gotta trust me when i say its about this" (which, again, is another point in favour of people saying that the moderation on this site is lacking and lets racism proliferate!)

but “discourse” is interesting to me because of how it’s been used pejoratively for many years now and everything that’s “discourse” is able to be easily pushed aside

My friends are sick of me bringing this up but this is pretty much an inherent problem with the discourse meme. The ordinary dictionary definition of discourse is just "verbal interchange of ideas" i.e. "talking;" the meme use of the word was popularized by some Tumblr posts in 2015, particularly the ones about debating/attacking asexuality. Point being there's a specific rhetorical history to this stuff, and using "discourse" in this inappropriately trivializing way (ex. referring to racism as "racial discourse" instead of "racism" and objecting to people talking about it, to the point of construing people of color as "obsessed" with racism) is true to form in that respect. It's entirely in line with a site culture of people acting like caring about anything is beneath them.