"'... whiteness is a large problem within the LGBT community. Being queer does not insulate oneself from the inheritance of whiteness. Although one can use one's queerness as a shield from critique. As many Mastadonians have used by presenting the history of Mastodon as grounded in queer folks' attempts to avoid the harrassment on Twitter."
#DrJonathanFlowers
https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon
#Mastodon #LGBTQ+
Oh, the irony. Because this works just as well in reverse. Being Black is no inoculation against homophobia. So queer people would be no less justified in slamming Flowers minimisation of their harassment as unconscious bigotry, than he is in dismissing their defence of Mastodon as "whiteness".
But where does any of this really get anybody? At no point does any of this pseudo-pomo navel-gazing connect with technical reality. I can't help but be reminded a bit of this:
It's mind-boggling to listen to a clearly well-educated person for almost an hour, lecturing on a network he clearly knows very little about the history or social structure of. As a consequence, he says very little with a lot of words, and a lot of strawmen die in the process.
