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fandomsecrets2023-06-30 02:31 pm
[ SECRET POST #6020 ]
⌈ Secret Post #6020 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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07. [SPOILERS for Good Omens season 2]

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08. [WARNING for discussion of sexual misconduct allegations]

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09. [WARNING for discussion of sexual assault]

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(Anonymous) 2023-07-02 07:23 am (UTC)(link)Past promises are irrelevant to whether the AO3 should be doing the things this group is lobbying for.
Giving anyone censorship powers over the archive is a disaster waiting to happen. Fandom collectively accomplished a tremendous victory by sticking to its guns despite attempts to emotionally blackmail everyone with the hypothetical possibility of child harm. What's at stake has not changed.
When PoC are outing themselves in private to someone like the head of Dreamwidth, who has demonstrated her commitment to the quality of fandom space with years of work, but they don't want to address the entire community and say "Stitch attacked and humiliated me. She in no way represents what I want, and EndOTWRacism is a sham" and risk a very public pile-on, that's evidence of an intimidation problem. It's staring everyone in the face. And that's exactly what the PoCs admitting in the anon meme that Stitch bullied them are saying.
Fics that the EndOTWRacism group declares are racist do not make the AO3 offensive to people of color. But the fact that other fans are scared to challenge a bully just because they think she is more oppressed than them (or just hate having to interact with her accusations and her followers) makes the space more unpleasant and stressful for everyone, PoC included.