tangential thought about the mau-mauing its not about "having" a space where ones preferred norms determine the formal rules its instead very much about publicly enforcing those rules on people who do not share those norms, ideally as many such people as possible

my favorite part of her post is how self infantilizing it is. i’m a little baby stuck in the back of a hot car and it’s the mods job to save me.

the internet is a big place and if a people wanted to go somewhere where no one said unkind things about their ingroup and everyone shat on their outgroup, such places may be readily found or established de novo