An ‘easy’ way to be an ally

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It would be nice if ‘bad people’ could be easily recognized.

Unfortunally that is often not the case.
You see a positive post about lesbians and reblog it and only find out later that OP is a terf. Or a biphobe.

You see a wonderful posts for trans women. But the OP makes fun about non binary people.

There is a great post about mlm, unfortunally the OP is a racist.

Sometimes we miss such things. No one is perfect.
But when we find out or someone tells us, as an ally we do our research and delete such posts.

If you want to be an ally, do not platform such people.

Because if you reblog a great mlm post from a racist, you tell your poc followers that they do not matter.

If you argue “Well her lesbian post is great and she does not say anything bad about trans women in that post, so I post it even when she is a terf”

Guess what message you are  giving to the trans people who see that post?
Your reblog tells the terf, that you agree with her.
You help her spread her influence.

When you reblog from a terf, a racist, a biphobe, and other scum because some of their posts are not transphobic or racist, you are helping them.
And you make their victims feel unsafe with you.
You make yourself look like one of ‘them’

Be an ally, do not offer them a platform to perform.
Go and  make your own positive posts instead.

Do you know how friggin scary it is to follow a blog and then you see them reblogging from a racist/terf or other  bigots?

Yes, the blog you follow is antiracist/antiterf/antibigot…but the post they reblogged was worded oh so harmless.

If you are not part of the marginalized group you often don’t see those signs that point to shit. Hell, sometimes when you are part of that group you might miss something.

You might sometimes miss things, but if a follower tells you, then  listen to them.

Don’t go “Oh their post is good and it does not sound bigoted”

Delete the post, block OP.
Because if you are told and don’t do it, it makes you  unsafe. You make others feel unsafe. You risk other peoples mental health if you don’t act against bigots and reblog from them.