it's okay. when everything was popping off i offered for anna to chat with me about what happened because she seemed to fundamentally misunderstand why people were upset, and i'm pretty sure she's gonna take me up on the offer any day now.
PV is not here to make temperamental white people feel better about their shallow commitment to make safe spaces for POCs.
PV is not here to coddle white insufferableness in the hopes they may come around and be marginally decent people.
We are more than open to building bridges with anyone that wants to build positive communities, but that does not include satiating the white gaze and it's need to exercise bigotry with no consequence.
So when I see known bigot say 'oh if they come to me, we can talk it out' I kinda just laugh because 1. we don't need you, 2. we don't need you and 3. they started the shit in the first place, so it's not on us to make them feel better about being dickheads so they can RECONCILE with us.
From PV's perspective, it's all a shell game played by people who want the benefit of having POCs on the marketing material, but don't care about our actual perspectives.
We all make mistakes and that's fine, but what I look for is patterns of behavior. If you have a certain pattern that you've been made aware of and don't make any effort to address it, it's intentional.
As far as PV goes, this has to be acknowledged in an authentic way and work must be done to have a chance an building something positive with an instance that has enabled shitty behavior.
And no instance that we've blocked has made a genuine effort to make amends. None.
Ha, so I haven't watched the Watchmen yet (waiting so I can binge it), but I am thoroughly entertained by how many white guys are upset because it talks about racism and white supremacy.
We just had like 8 seasons of Game of Thrones, which did not follow the books, and that was fine. Hell, most shows don't follow the original material. That's pretty common.
But when a show that stars a Black Woman does it, OUTRAGE! IT'S NOT TRUE TO SOURCE. RAAAAAAAAH
So in this hoopla of silence and blocking witches bc of their with issues on race...
From the perspective of someone who was erased out of the very narrative that centered them (weird) its maaaad suspect that it's being done this long after the fact.
Is this ppl performing for other ppl bc someone told u that it's a bad look?
Or are you doing this bc you're actually concerned w racism and the well being of the poc that Anna targeted and erased?