Originally posted here.

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This is a strikingly honest description of culture war politics: create a brand that evokes negative feelings regardless of the details or merits of the case.
In other words, the goal is to create a *bias* one that short-circuits reasoning and automates a political response. pic.twitter.com/YryY0adQ7z

— Don Moynihan (@donmoyn) March 15, 2021

Guess what racist fandom discourse accounts (and of course, their tokens of color) do to conversations about racism in fandom~

(literally it’s the same thing. they even use the same language – like woke as a pejorative, panic about censorship, Black people as villains – wow)

I know folks won’t “get” it but there are several points from 2017 to now where people across “transformative” fandom have tilted the needle HARD towards alt right ideology and language in the name of defending fandom specifically from BIPOC and folks just write it off as drama

But it’s not drama.

It’s racists manipulating marginalized white people’s fear of being harmed/silenced for their marginalization (which HAS happened) in order to turn them against BIPOC in fandom who are anti-racism to the point of inspiring long-term harassment campaigns.