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This is not an anti-queer conspiracy. It's just boring old whiteness receiving the deserved response and even more boring statistics with the Fediverse being largely run by queer nerds (of which again most are white and have learning to do, including myself).

None of this is an excuse to hide behind your queerness or even weaponising it when confronted with your own racism. I know that confrontation is uncomfortable and can really scratch your self-image as "one of the good ones". But it's necessary.

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Inaya Shujaat عنايه شجاعت 🇳🇿🇵🇸

@esther I was taught the very ugly lesson that ethnicity seems to trump everything else when it comes to ethnic and religious discrimination. I mention “religious discrimination” because #Muslims are almost always perceived as being exclusively POC, and much of the #islamophobia that we Muslims face is rooted in #racism.

Inaya Shujaat عنايه شجاعت 🇳🇿🇵🇸

@esther I’ve suffered from more islamophobia & discrimination on Fedi at the hands of LGBTQ+ than I did on Twitter. I guess power corrupts. Over there, we were all equally targeted & powerless, so there was more banding together. Here, I’ve been chased off servers by folks I used to think would be an ally. It has been a very painful awakening. Minorities should stick together.

They shouldn’t be letting their whiteness dictate how they treat ethnic and religious minorities.

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