I've often been the only PoC during in person conversations, but rarely online actually! Possibly because I'm mostly in fannish spaces and by the time I started moving around we already had deadbro and a feeling of race consciousness within fandom.
Ah. Lucky you.
But we should sort of keep alive the idea that while this might be a mostly white comm, it isn't a white comm.
It's currently a white-by-default comm, and there's a lot of assuming the audience of any communication is white-by-default. I'm uncomfortable with that. I feel very Othered by that.
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Date: 2010-10-14 07:58 pm (UTC)Ah. Lucky you.
But we should sort of keep alive the idea that while this might be a mostly white comm, it isn't a white comm.
It's currently a white-by-default comm, and there's a lot of assuming the audience of any communication is white-by-default. I'm uncomfortable with that. I feel very Othered by that.