a thought: i have never been Important enough to be problematic, nor have i ever been Important enough to be critical of problematic things
an explanation of the thought: in a past life back on twitter a ton of people i followed and respected starting retweeting someone arguing that "(thing) is harmful to (minority)" and that anyone positively interacting with (thing) was actively participating in oppression, and the only correct course of action was to stop completely. all those retweets and the discussion around them were pretty clearly in agreement. i of course liked (thing) and shut down hard over my like of it, and eventually resolved to stop
a couple weeks later a lot of those people approvingly retweeting that demand for change were happily indulging in (thing) as if they had never even heard it was bad. like it didn't matter. after spending all that time and energy making it clear how much it mattered, it suddenly didn't
the only interpretation i had that could make sense of this was "when we said you shouldn't do (thing), we meant you. we can trust ourselves"
and of course whenever i criticized something i thought was harmful, i was often dismissed out of hand. no real "this is why you're wrong, rethink your thoughts" just "how dare you criticize this thing i like"
i don't know the difference between me and you other than you had a larger follower count
(by the way (thing) is either only vaguely related to (minority), or is not related at all and people just made shit up for clout)
