frankly, that’s what I do. ever ‘group’ i have been a part of inevitable tips over into exclusionary thinking over time. they start open and welcoming, and then insecure people start taking over and policing people’s words and beahviors, and then I leave.
I also see the flipside, a established group gets criticized for not changing it’s discourse to be more ‘inclusionary’… but often those critics have no interest in joining, they just want to police from the outside because they too are insecure and controlling types of people.
Personally I don’t think it’s for me to tell other people how to live their lives, or what to say or think or do. Let racists be racist in their racist pool. I don’t believe in a social project of imposing my form of justice on other people, because to me that’s just authoritarian. I also regard a lot of contemporary ‘anti racist’ rhetoric as incredibly racist. I also don’t think certain words are universally wrong or offensive given they are used in context.
ke I don’t think Huck Finn is a racist book, but in 2025, a lot of people certainly seem to think that. Because of the use of a word they think is universally wrong, and they have no concept of context, historical or literary. Like, is a community about Huck Finn, pulling quotes from a book, racist? According to many ‘policies’ it would be. That’s insane to me.
But I also don’t believe in white washing our history the way a lot of people on the left, and on the right, seem hellbent on doing.
so leave the pool?
frankly, that’s what I do. ever ‘group’ i have been a part of inevitable tips over into exclusionary thinking over time. they start open and welcoming, and then insecure people start taking over and policing people’s words and beahviors, and then I leave.
I also see the flipside, a established group gets criticized for not changing it’s discourse to be more ‘inclusionary’… but often those critics have no interest in joining, they just want to police from the outside because they too are insecure and controlling types of people.
Personally I don’t think it’s for me to tell other people how to live their lives, or what to say or think or do. Let racists be racist in their racist pool. I don’t believe in a social project of imposing my form of justice on other people, because to me that’s just authoritarian. I also regard a lot of contemporary ‘anti racist’ rhetoric as incredibly racist. I also don’t think certain words are universally wrong or offensive given they are used in context.
ke I don’t think Huck Finn is a racist book, but in 2025, a lot of people certainly seem to think that. Because of the use of a word they think is universally wrong, and they have no concept of context, historical or literary. Like, is a community about Huck Finn, pulling quotes from a book, racist? According to many ‘policies’ it would be. That’s insane to me.
But I also don’t believe in white washing our history the way a lot of people on the left, and on the right, seem hellbent on doing.