Fun fact: the folks who get vibrate-y with rage and have to write threads ~rebutting~ (but not at all) conversations about racism in transformative fandom from fans and in fanworks... probably aren't as aggressive about calling out racism offline
I was thinking about it while eating: if someone's PUBLIC fandom practice is to snidely dismiss fans of color talking about racism in *their * fandom or from their peers and even to harass them... You know that those folks aren't out here actually fighting for justice offline?
There's a lot of "fandom isn't activism" aimed at fans of color talking about racism from people who will just grimace when a loved one says something racist and won't defend our right to live offline. They cannot be bothered to be actively antiracist anywhere.
The same people who'll have "fandom isn't activism" in their bios and say that there's no ~real racism~ in transformative fandom and actively go after fans of color they don't like? Aren't actually putting in work on or offline to make our lives easier.
(And yes, I actually can figure this because again: you can look at/search through these folks' years of public social media posts and race/racism only come up when it's trying to debunk what people like me write and the only politics are those that impact them directly.)
You can't genuinely think that someone whose PUBLIC reaction to fans of color talking about racism in fandom is: to minimize/dismiss it, attack fans of color or slander us, and/or write threads to "debunk" our ACTUAL experiences...

Actually cares about racial injustice ANYWHERE?
Like who do YOU think cares more about racism?

A Black fan talking about how racism in fandom is harmful partially it reminds POC that we can't escape the racism we experience everywhere else...

Or the white fans subtweeting and mocking said Black fan's tweets and posts?

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Understand that white people who are publicly and privately anti anti racism in fandom spaces are ALSO anti anti racism at some level offline.
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