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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
mbjones@social.lol ("Brandon") wrote:
@cliffwade “If you have XX amount of posts on your website…” was never said.
“If your driveway is exactly XX feet long…” was never said.
“If you visited XX amount of countries…” was never said.
Those aren’t things in your control. Those aren’t dog whistles of racism/fascism/nazis/etc, etc
How hard is it actually to change something that *is* in your control, like a statement on a website or the like, when someone tells you it is a dog whistle? When marginalized people confirm it? It takes me finding a few minutes to get on my computer and ssh in, vi into a file and rebuild the site to get mine updated. Maybe 10 min if I forget the template I need to update max.
Is our privilege to use dog whistles mistakenly or in ignorance really worth fighting for? I guess I understand that desire if you agree with the dog whistle but if you claim to not??? Like how hard is it *really* to say “oh crap! I didn’t realize, thanks for saying something I’ll change it as soon as I can.” I have and will continue to but then I’ve been trying to turn in my white straight dude privilege card for awhile.