diversehighfantasy:

greatrunner:

The most insidious types of fandom racism that actively promotes itself on tumblr and elsewhere (folk who write thousand word essays about how hard it is not to be racist writing fanfiction and etc, and “coming up with a definition for the antis™” that largely focuses on fans of color talk about things that trigger them), all appear to have had roots in the mainstream (and very white) LiveJournal community before the 2007 migration.

And the worst thing about knowing that, is knowing that people listen to them like the grand authorities on all things fandom because their “fandom old”, but they’re lacking in any kind of real wisdom because they’re content to ignore the people who are affected the most by the issues they claim to know better than anyone.

Yup. That LJ bubble mentality won’t die. 

As messy as it is, fandom in the age of social media is so much more inclusive now, and a lot of “fandom olds” can’t seem to understand that they can’t run people out when they’re criticized anymore. They turn that into nostalgia, and it gets into people’s minds that those times were nicer, simpler, better. And whenever yt people pine for simpler times, it means a time when Black people stayed in their place.