To #BIPOC / #POC users of Mastodon (others can boost):

What do you make of CW culture and norms on here?

The people I see being most vocal about it are 99.99% White people which feels like a red flag

@creatrixtiara

Well, knowing a person's prefernces is a little complex in , as people can pretty much 'craft' their own timeline, so you can follow whom you want to follow and unless people identify themselves as , or ,

I am curious to know how might you come to the figure of 99.99%? I'd like to use your method to estimate the percentage of various ethnicities in my timeline.

@arinbasu it's not an exact measure backed by science or anything, more hyperbole. But I have been on here on and off for years, so my observation isn't that off base.

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@creatrixtiara

I see what you mean. :-), yup.

Several years ago, around 2017-ish, you may recall, there was a massive influx of Japanese language posts across several servers, and it was quite interesting to read the posts from, ahem ..., 99% ers.
So good point there!

@arinbasu @creatrixtiara I find that you also get a sense of proportions when doing the work, or just being a #BIPoC in the world. Like I don't have a scientific study to back it up, but my experience-honed sense of things is that about 95% to 99% of discussions about white fragility end in a white fragility episode, sort of like Feminism's Helen Lewis' Law. And the ones that don't? I hang onto those white people.

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