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anon · 1y

You were my favourite radinclus/system acc on twt but you blocked me and a lot of my mutuals who are also radinclus and it's pretty confusing

Of the reasons we block people, we usually only block radinclus accounts for one of three reasons (though there are rarely other reasons as well):

  1. You got caught in a chain block. For example, you liked a bigoted tweet or follow someone who is very transparently an awful person in a way you could not follow them without noticing. We haven’t run chain blocks as much recently but we used to back when Twitter was more functional.
  2. You are part of, or follow or support people who are part of, communities that openly engage in abuse or support abusers, such as the “MAP” or “pro-paraphile” community. (Or, you otherwise support someone while having awareness they are an abuser.)
  3. You have personally been shitty to one of us, such as violating our boundaries, being ableist, or otherwise just kind of being a dick.

We don’t assume that people we have blocked are bad people or did anything wrong. We block heavily to curate our space so we don’t have to deal with harassment from bigots, especially after getting a lot of harassment not that long ago from an ableist harassment campaign that started on reddit and resulted in death threats and people behaving in really disgusting ways about our trauma and abuse history. Blocking is not a personal insult, nor is it intended that way. It’s just for our safety. Sure, some people who we have blocked we for sure hate and believe are horrible people, we’ve blocked plenty of infamous TERFs, but others we only blocked because we just don’t want to see something they post about often and the mute function on Twitter is extremely broken. Just depends on why we blocked you.

Unfortunately, as great as the whole radinclus online space is, it has a lot of problems. Notably, even though it tends to have good queer politics, racism and ableism are still occasionally a problem, like they are in every community. And, like in every community, abuse isn’t taken as seriously as it should, and survivors who come forward are not respected as they should be. We consider ourselves radinclus, so it’s not like we hate the community, but it’s often assumed that queer inclusion will extend to all other issues of oppression and it just doesn’t work like that. Like any other marginalized community, it has its problems, y’know? And when people try to speak up about it, sometimes shit really hits the fan. We’ve had experiences where people gossip about us behind our backs or make wild assumptions about us and spread rumors because we blocked them or one of their friends. We just ignore it because ultimately, if you decide you don’t like us for some reason that’s up to you, and it’s none of our business at that point. But it’s kind of exhausting getting questions about it all the time. We’ve answered this same question several times now. (This isn’t anger at you, for all I know you’re perfectly nice and just got caught in a block chain or something, it’s just frustration with the situation.)

IDK if it will help if we pin this somewhere or something but yeah. Hopefully that answers your question.

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