Notices by Alice (alice@todon.nl)

@Are0h This is probably a good time to remind people that the left absolutely lost its shit and hacked the paypal account, sent threats, and harassed Angiespeaks, a black woman on youtube, for simply hosting Peter Coffin after Peter wouldn't hatemob a cancelled person. No, they didn't hack Peter's account (not that it would be okay to terrorize someone like that), they hacked the black girl's account.

It's always the most marginalized who are truly "cancelable".

"JUST JOKING" / "BEING IRONIC"

Jokes are the creation of tension by the speaker (whether contextual or metatextual) and the subsequent release of tension to signal safety. Therefore jokes always make a statement about the nature of what is found to be tense and safe. You can't be "just joking".

Ex: If a white wants to tell a racist joke in a public mixed space not among friends, they are signalling they acknowledge race is tense in this context but that they personally feel safe regardless. A lifetime of race privilege bears out this asymmetry whether the speaker is sincere+misguided or cryptoracist and merely hiding behind humor.

Therefore in general, whether it's a subconscious sincerity the privileged speaker isn't aware of or conscious bigotry that's sincere but masked by the lie of "joking" is immaterial to the consequence of the action. Both show a thought -> action dynamic to bigoted material. Hiding behind irony/jokes still reveals the thinking.

Fedi is mixed and public y'all.
Garfield's thread as related: https://mastodon.social/@garfiald/101211529801119286

What if we go back to making smart phones with physical keyboards god dammit