🐅 i'm late here but i'm gonna be honest. as a person of color (in tech fwiw) the Cohost Race Discourse doesn't affect me at all. i don't feel at all uncomfortable or even alien here. and i never used other social media to find other epic win minorities to talk about baseball with or whatever to begin with. i don't feel like people of color "get me" any better than white people do (which is to say not very well). the being queer thing is a way better indicator of if i actually am interested in someone and it's not that good. nationality is another thing- i love finding puerto ricans, though it's not like them being around makes me feel safe from microaggressions that aren't happening on here anyway or whatever the concern is. but what am i supposed to talk about with a mexican or asian or latino person. knowing that they've experienced a small fraction of the things i've experienced makes me ever so slightly more comfortable around them and that's it. but i don't feel like i have to act white on here. i don't lament that not enough people are like me in what might actually be the most trivial way possible (actually i take that back it's gender among cis people but you get me). i don't feel like people are more likely to jump on my ass because i have power words in my bio, i mean not on fucking cohost, that sounds ridiculous. people that see my posts barely recognize those things about me to begin with much less use them to profile me. is there a distinction to be drawn between asians hanging out with asians and trying to find common ground with black folks because they're both minorities that's getting lost here in talking about The Poc Deficit? like who are you people and where are you coming from. like i get it, being real some of these crackers are dumb as fuck ("cw racism!! blehh!!" or the inverse, reading race into shit that does not need it which poc do too but white allies love to overcorrect their blind spot) but it just does not get to me. i'm trying to be so polite about your worldviews right now but if anything, i feel like the normal fucking guy for not letting my life revolve around my race. we're not on twitter any more so whatever you got, whatever axe to grind or whatever, whatever perception of how things are, maybe unpack it. and i'm not saying that to be sassy it took us four and a half years to fully get over certain internet trauma. just my $0.02.
