When you spend your time viciously attacking people on Twitter, you deserve to be held accountable for your toxicity. You & every1 you rile up in DM groups are responsible for inflicting real harm. Behind every twitter handle is a human being, not some caricature for you to drag.

All of this stemmed from VP preferences. Black women who supported Warren in the primary would post that they preferred Kamala as VP because they valued representation, & theyd be viciously attacked for it. Theyd be called traitors, fake Warren Dems, & things too heinous to type.

All for what? For having the audacity to share their personal preference? As if what we want had ANY bearing on Joe’s decision. And those attacks took on a more insidious form, where critiques on VP preferences morphed into personal attacks. It went beyond petty, it was malicious

That inflicts REAL harm on people. Using targeted users as punching bags simply because they preferred a different VP. Or, in many cases, even when they preferred the SAME VP but their support wasn’t loud or ruthless enough. & a handful of users were ringleaders of this toxicity.

I won’t be silent about how profoundly infuriating it is to see one of the ringleaders masquerading as a progressive ‘influencer’, utterly in denial about her role in harming so many progressive organizers & activists. You don’t get to walk away from the car wreck you caused.

Being a good ally goes beyond posting platitudes about appreciating black women. You have to do it IN REAL LIFE & do the work of confronting your own whiteness & internalized racism. And doing it without weaponizing your BIPOC friends as insulation from accusations of racism.