I PROMISED I WAS ONLY GONNA TALK ABOUT GOOD THINGS AND WITCHCRAFT DONT MAKE ME NOT DO THAT

Literally just had someone DM us how white is a slur.

I can't even right now.

WHAT DID I JUST SAY

@spiderrobotpig O.o I don't really like using "white" for myself, but it's _not_ a slur. Good grief!

@melindrea We can't even

It's ridiculous

@spiderrobotpig Exactly.
My main complaints about it has to do with how … fluid a concept it is, and how often it's used in ways that suggest I should feel kinship with people who I have nothing in common with except for a similar (low) level of melanin.

@melindrea Yeah, and even a low level of melanin doesn't guarantee you're white (light skinned black folks, Irish people, Jewish people, etc etc)

@spiderrobotpig As I said. "fluid".

@melindrea Yeah exactly.

Sorry we do that haha

@spiderrobotpig Don't apologise, since you exemplified the fluidity and ... well, social-construction-ness of whiteness well =)

and it's so nice to have enough space to not need to birdstorm ones thoughts! I mean, i don't have that much thoughts right now (mind mush--at work!) but ... still nice =)

@melindrea Yah definitely :3 its like 3 1/2 tweets which is neat