If a Black trans woman on the internet is smeared as a terrible person by white people, to the point that they turn her name into a slur,
And Black people who never followed, interacted with or even met this woman have the slur extended to them, just because they talk about racism in public,
Is that an act of antiblackness/racism/a racial microaggression?
nuanced answer, re: racism poll
@so_treu Nuanced answer for the first part: very likely "yes", only "no" if the person in question is genuinely egregiously and knowingly harmful to others, *and* the criticism is precise, legitimate, and entirely devoid of any sort of racist or racism-adjacent rhetoric and behaviour, explicit or otherwise, as determined by Black folks.
In practice those conditions are so vanishingly unlikely to be true that I do not ever expect to see them in my lifetime, and so the simple answer is "yes".
The second part is much simpler: yeah, that is very clearly racism.
nuanced answer, re: racism poll
@so_treu (As meta-commentary, I think that nuance is really only worth mentioning because it can help defuse "but it's just criticism" arguments from white people, by explicitly setting all of the conditions that would need to be true for that so that they cannot set their own.)
