Razz!! 🥬🦌

I guess that's maybe one downside of cohost's no-algorithm design: If you have done a good job curating your follows, you will only see people being racist secondhand via people talking about that/posting screenshots, and at that point seeking out those posts is just a massively higher barrier to action than seeing some racist shit on your feed directly.

heh, two thirds of my last chost is me chewing myself out for failing at this re: a specific instance mentioned in the doc

I have been reading Malcolm Harris' history of California and it (understandably) spends significant time on the Black Panther Party. I am reminded of this quote it included from Huey Newton:

As far as I’m concerned the only reasonable conclusion would be to first realize the enemy, realize the plan, and then when something happens in the black colony—when we’re attacked and ambushed in the black colony—then the white revolutionary students and intellectuals and all the other whites who support the colony should respond by defending us, by attacking the enemy in their community. Every time that we’re attacked in our community there should be a reaction by the white revolutionaries; they should respond by defending us, by attacking part of the security force.

It goes without saying that Cohost is an infinitely smaller stage than the upheaval of the 60s and 70s - but the point remains. Action cannot only be passive support of minority voices in their efforts, it must be active defense in white-majority spaces.