It’s a sunny cloudy day, those clouds that might just be pale sky, and I guess I’m going to have to just say some things so I’ll say them and get on with it.
If someone is suggesting that your position, language or method of approaching something stems from privilege, even if you are normally aware of such things, it’s a critique worth considering. Maybe it really isn’t, but at least you’ll have examined the possibility.
Or maybe it actually is. That’s not a crime, it’s not going to get you shunned for all eternity. It’s an opportunity for growth.
The other thing my brain won’t shut up about until I get it out: when I said the only man I’ll defer to on Spoutible is Christopher Bouzy, I meant that literally. Yes, we create the environment; yes we are allowed far more input than any other social media site in the wilds of the internet; yes, some of us have even put money into the site.
But.
We are not on the board. We are not the owners of the site. The decisions, ultimately, are not ours.
That’s going to be true anywhere else, in fact no one would imagine otherwise about other social media sites, unless we have the ability and ingenuity and fortitude to create our own social media havens and get people to use them. Reality is reality.
Is everyone I don’t think should be on the site off the site?
Uhh no.
And let’s be honest, at the rate I rack up people blocking me, particularly white men who do not enjoy the “no deferral” policy, there are plenty who think I should be gone. But I am not.
If you’ve wondered why I, with my endless supply of word-swords and windmills, have not tilted at this one, it is simple: what is the point?
This is a no-win situation for people not directly involved, because eventually when all is calm again, those who waded in will find themselves without a towel. I know, because I have been there.
If you, like me, don’t have all the details, I say we accept that, as it is.
I save my fight for real battles, and we have some doozies ahead of us in this year with the most pivotal election of our lifetimes. Spoutible is our submarine, it is our cannon, it it’s our long range missile, it’s our other war-y thing because this is not my kind of metaphor. We can change the world together, but not if we let the things that don’t actually impact us and the world around us divide us.
Like it or don’t like it, on Spoutible, Christopher Bouzy is the one who decides (I couldn’t bring myself to describe him as the “decider”). That’s just a fact. You can rail against it but you’ll rail yourself off the platform.
I don’t intend to minimize anyone’s feelings, either, but some things are simply not worth the energy that could be put to better use.
OK so that was more than I intended to say, but at least my brain can shush now. Have a great Tuesday, and let’s just pick ourselves up and move on.
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