I hate this thing people across fandom do where they need people to:
- denounce people they don’t know (eg. “i see you talking about racism in transformative fandom on twitter, but why do you support these racist teenagers on tiktok in a different fandom that hate my ship?”)
- explain things they never said (eg. “i read your weaponized white womanhood post… why do you hate Black women?”)
- speak on a not even remotely related fandom situation (eg., “i see you talking about systemic antiblackness and how it’s present in fandom, but you don’t mention people being attacked because they like bl”/call themselves fujoshi)
And if you don’t do the things they demand of you (for some reason… but you do not know these people and they do not know you or anything about you), they will then never listen to you about what you’re actually saying… because you are bad and wrong for not listening to them about this thing.
So they won’t listen to you talk about racism in fandom. They won’t listen to you when you say that no one should be harassed in or because of fandom. They won’t accept that you can think that and also want people to understand that bigotry doesn’t belong in fandom.
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