Some things I experienced, from my youth, until this very day… Well yesterday now… Various ongoing slurs… You can be friends at school. Multiethnic group walking into a grocery together, “slur lovers!” “That boy is Asian!”. “Are you gay?! Why do you have out with slur?! Why do you keep your hair so short?" “You’re too white!” “You’re too dark!” “That’s the black on your parent’s side of the family.” "We might have Jewish blood on your "grandparent’s side…“ “Why are you dating a Jew/Mexican/black person/Russian/Cuban/Puerto Rican/Asian?” “This is an exclusive dining establishment.” (Ngl, that one really pissed me off. I asked my Bf, “Did he just…” Being told “Yes. Its alright. Let’s go.” “It’s not alright!” “Baby, please, it’s alright. Let’s go!”).

When my very dark date was yelling at me in the car and having to tell him to please calm down because we were in town and a mixed couple, and didn’t want any trouble. Going to visit someone in jail with a multiethnic group of friends and praying we didn’t have a flat for all the Confederate battle flags and Trump flags flying in front of homes and establishments. Hearing a white friend say something about a dirty Indian, telling him “I’m a dirty Indian,” and him thinking I was joking, then stop taking to me after we’d been very close. Today while picking up some groceries, “No, we’re just white.”

It’s not right. You pick your times and places.

My problem with the anime fandom is that every anime pfp is a gamble. They could be a perfectly decent person or they could be a turbo racist incel chud who blames everything on woke

BUT GAMERS ON THE-

What is very frustrating is that people treat far-right politics as “normal” and therefore “apolitical” so a person can just spew those politics and nobody bats an eye, but if you call it out then suddenly you’re being “political” and the moderation in many of these kinds of communities will then crack down on you.

It’s increasing exponentially everywhere, racism, misogyny, homphobia, transphobia, xenophobia, rage towards the disabled. The world is getting even more hateful than usual. Even leftist spaces aren’t immune. I had someone on hexbear give me racist abuse for my nationality just because I had a different opinion on a fictional story than they did.

Antiblackness is unfortunately very universal. Feels like there’s no real safe spaces for us unless we make our own.

It’s not just fandom spaces. There was a literal Nazi post on here that got wiped a second ago.

I think someone else is better fit to describe what’s going on in the fandoms than me, comrade. I was foing to go with the “paying gacha fans are white petit bourgeois chuds”, but I am not even remotely familiar with the other spaces.

This isn’t even in fandom spaces, but on multiple Youtube channels that I subscribe to. I just saw one posted this morning of Scott Manley interviewing Jared Isaacman at MAX POWER.