All of these things haven't happened to me personally either, but have happened to friends and list/comm members. No one told me off for posting in the wrong time zone, but I saw people being told off or ignored for it, so I adjusted my behavior. I am a native English speaker, so again, the EFL hate "only" harms me second hand.
As you say, they are little things, and they are things not directed at me, but little things add up to real barriers for participation, and we are all human beings and will still be hurt by casual indifference and cruelty not aimed or intended for us personally.
The examples you give of the "little things" are very good. Those are the things I personally find really grating in my everyday online life, not being of one of the vilified ethnicities myself.
Good point on the *ism discussions. I have recently seen a wave of inclusive feminism trying to break this insular "only white, middle-class, cis, temporarily abled and American women are women" thing, but discussion of feminist issues mainly relevant outside of America tend to fizzle and die quickly in the anglophone corner of the internet I hang out in.
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Date: 2009-12-19 04:24 pm (UTC)As you say, they are little things, and they are things not directed at me, but little things add up to real barriers for participation, and we are all human beings and will still be hurt by casual indifference and cruelty not aimed or intended for us personally.
The examples you give of the "little things" are very good. Those are the things I personally find really grating in my everyday online life, not being of one of the vilified ethnicities myself.
Good point on the *ism discussions. I have recently seen a wave of inclusive feminism trying to break this insular "only white, middle-class, cis, temporarily abled and American women are women" thing, but discussion of feminist issues mainly relevant outside of America tend to fizzle and die quickly in the anglophone corner of the internet I hang out in.