Black people seeking structural or infrastructural autonomy within the US to counteract their historic exclusion from power, production, and protection post-slave-trade is a fairly specific context which doesn't apply to white or asian folks. Also I don't think asian people would appreciate being called "yellow."

- “yellow” is a racist adjective for asians, “black” is not a racist adjective for black people

- there is no “white community” in the US to make the equivalent to “black community”

so you can’t really draw any useful conclusions from how string replacement on this sentence makes you feel

It's difficult to describe how the US black community has uniquely suffered for centuries due to unique appeal of the mercantile class to the Catholic church about how it's actually okay to mistreat their human cargo and perform chattel slavery. Then, hundreds of years later the mercantile reason is forgotten, yet bigotry from it lays embedded in American society. And in other societies that took black people as slaves, to a lesser extent.

So a black segregated community does not sound very racist for these historical reasons. Not to say that desegregation in America has failed, but that there are infallible holdouts that wish to cling to a rotted out ideology that, again, its origins by its believers have largely forgotten.

Asian American communities are complicit, more or less unknowingly, to a lesser extent but only because they have aped to authority in America to achieve "whiteness".

The sad truth is that there is no community that prides itself on being white without parroting trickster mercantile talking points, of which again I remind that their origins are forgotten and they do not even know why they hate so fiercely.

So something like Blacksky is genuinely exciting in theory. Even though it will probably self select in a way that makes it inhospitable for new comers. Much like Bluesky...but, I'm describing a separate argument from historical bigotry, which I feel compelled to call out since its origins have--for the fourth time--been so forgotten.

I don’t really care if some group that doesn’t include me wants to exercise their freedom of association — whatever, it’s a free internet, go do your thing — but my lord it’s amusing to see Bluesky keep purging itself via these endless purity spirals.

Some people really can’t stand their own company.

"yellowsky" sounds racist because calling asians "yellow" is racist.

"whitesky" sounds racist because...well, i don't know if you're a big history buff but in the US white-people-only gatherings were always suuuuper racist.

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