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The way that the jorts.horse admin is posting right now, that's how abusers behave.

- Reducing a combination of problems/factors to a single event, pretending that that's the only thing that happened, and complaining about how unreasonable the response would be to that strawman
- Strategically not mentioning (or responding to) the very legitimate criticisms that they've received, cherrypicking only the emotionally-charged comments that they feel they can ridicule and trivialize
- Treating the whole thing as a joke, and painting "people getting upset" as a justification of why they were right all along not to take it seriously
- Using their marginalized status as a shield from criticism about an entirely unrelated thing
- Setting themselves up as the gatekeeper, declaring that they do not *personally* see the value in something and therefore nobody should be expected to treat it respectfully
- Making a non-apology, claiming they've told them to knock it off, but never *actually* condemning the problematic behaviour in question

Again, this is abuser behaviour, disguised as shitposting. And this is far from an isolated incident - this sort of thing is uncomfortably widespread in leftist and activist circles. Learn to recognize the patterns and act against them.

Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.

Let's be very clear.

What jorts[dot]horse is doing is straight-up white supremacy. They are attacking a tool, specifically, created to help make the fedi safer for Black and POC users because they feel it's bad and is laughing about it. That's unvarnished anti-blackness, and they are proud of it.

At this point, nothing separates them from any other racist instance like kiwi farms or gab.

They are actively working to make the fedi a less safe place and enjoying that effort.

#fediblock