'Fans of color deserve better, and gently demanding it from a single fandom space that promised to do so but keeps dragging its heels isn’t anti-fandom.'
, philosopher Karl Popper’s “paradox of tolerance,” developed in the 1940s as a response to Nazism, is used to explain how limitless tolerance of every idea causes intolerant ideas to emerge and grow more reputable.
What we’re willing to tolerate says volumes about who is allowed to speak and be listened to in a given space. A max inclusiveness policy that prioritizes content regardless of how genuinely offensive and oppressive it can be to marginalized and vulnerable people such as Black and brown fans in fandom shows that we are not included in the safe space of fandom… which brings us to the idea of fandom as a “Nazi bar.” The Nazi bar analogy comes courtesy of Michael B.
The comparison broadly applies to niche social groups like the different fandoms we’re in. These are places where online radicalization is introduced to vulnerable people looking for something to believe in. It can start with something as simple as a meme, or the insistence that fans of color are only pretending to care about anti-racism in order to take away your porn.
When it comes to fandom, we’ve seen decades of people told to just accept racism and other forms of bigotry in other fans’s behavior as well as the content they produce. Work by racists — including explicitly and purposefully racist content – has always been defended in these spaces. But when it comes to work about racism or fans of color simply complaining on their social media? Those fans are quickly shown the door or harassed until they no longer feel like being in fandom.
It's never been clearer to me than with the vicious, violent responses to #EndOTWRacism that queer fandom is a Nazi bar already — even before we look at the historical and current support for Nazi/Holocaust AUs across fandom. The white supremacists are here, and they’vehere.
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