Also, Mastodon’s nazis and other bad actors certainly do exist and have deployed the affordances of the platform to tank instances run by marginalized folks.

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Now, to Noah's point: because communities are the result of associations among people, and change as the practices of those people change, it is VERY easy for defenders of a community to slide an unstated premises into their defense that they're not one of The Bad ones because they don't do The Bad.

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Or, in the context of The Good Whites "I have never done a racist thing," or "I voted for Harris" as a defense against being implicated in white supremacy, where the unstated premises is that you have to do A Racism to participate in white supremacy. This is the unstated premises they're working on.

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Because the premises is unstated, it becomes hard to refute especially when talking about communities which, on first blush, might be disconnected. If we follow Sara Ahmed, to even raise the specter of the false unstated premises is to raise a problem, and that problem is attributed to YOU.

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“Breaking news: Renowned composer Philip Glass…” *Oh no…* “…withdraws from Kennedy Center.” *Fuck yeah*

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