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>> I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.

Its like white people telling brown people that airport security isnt a toxic place and its all in their mind. Things are toxic...just not for everyone. Try being colored or not part of the in-crowd on Twitter and you get to see how toxic it is.

The point of twitter isnt just to read, but also to engage. But engagement is hard when tiki-toting nationalists are sending death threads to anyone that doesnt want to turn the world into prison.

Even technical (non political) conversations get all sorts of hate flung at PoC accounts.

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> Try being colored or not part of the in-crowd on Twitter and you get to see how toxic it is.

Try being a white right-of-center man and see how toxic it is. Try being a Christian and see how how toxic it is. Try being a gender-critical feminist and see how toxic it is. Etc.

There's a difference between receiving hate for merely existing and receiving hate for espousing harmful beliefs.

If you got hate for having Christian imagery or references in your profile, that would be awful. But if "being a Christian" means quoting Leviticus 18:22 at homosexuals then that is an action you're taking and getting pushback for.

I find people like yourself in traditional power structures genuinely believe the enforcement of the existing structure is a "neutral" act or position to hold. I think this delusion is how you come to think of politics you actively engage is as merely "being". It's not, and no on else is obligated to pretend it is.

You listed groups that have historically:

- have been purveyors, not victims, of discrimination within USA

- introduced extreme polarization to mass media & political discourse

- controlled enough political power to push their beliefs on the majority through law since the inception of this country

I wonder if “center of X” voices have ever wondered _why_ their opinions aren’t well received outside of their bubbles.

Possibly but Twitter’s ownership won’t help with any of that.

I love how you just mentioned this and people jumped in to prove your point. You never said these groups were oppressed, or anything about being silenced, just that interacting with people can be toxic if this is what you believe. Suddenly, people are jumping at you, claiming you're crying and putting all these words into your mouth. Everyone, this is the toxicity he's claiming! Not that he's oppressed, or he has no free speech.

I don't know... freedom of speech? From anyone's points of view, I don't see how anyone is exempted from ur points, even the white ppl(im poc btw).

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