Gregory's Server@celesteh @tarheel Anti-Blackness plays out differently. A tech-utopian sees “bias-free application of the rules”. A person whose life experience teaches them to see racism sees the racism in those rules and pushes back. And another “difficult editor who had so much promise” is banned because they can’t follow what the established folks genuinely see as the neutral application of rules
@celesteh @tarheel I no longer believe in the idea of vested contributors with too much social capital to lose. So many of the editors who feel like unassailable institutions today have joined the project in recent years. And the old stalwarts continue to flame out