@kenc313 @SalK I'm assuming you don't mean "tell all your diverse friends to come here," but rather "what can we do to make people want to be here and feel safe here?"
May I ask what you mean when you say only an "agile" BIPOC person can connect here? Even not being sure what you mean, it sounds tiring.
Yes, code switching is exhausting, and it's not a welcoming place here for any non-white people unless they keep things mild and nonspecific to their life experience.
In the October migration from Twitter a lot of Black Twitter just left here because they weren't welcomed to be who they were on Twitter.
@Shelter @kenc313 @SalK When I'm hanging out with my less pale friends, acquaintances, and colleagues, I feel the caution at all times - with me, and with any other person that looks sort of like me. I witness the change in mannerism. The constant sense that they have to be on guard because at any moment, one of us could blow up the conversation, meeting, gathering, conversation.
It's clear that even hanging around with supposedly "woke" white folks is a mine-field for everyone else.
@AskTheDevil The same happens when a man walks into a room of women.
I stopped going to a Bible study where I was the only male, because I realised my presence was preventing them from being as real as they needed to be.
Damn we need to sort *all* of this stuff out!