(What on Planet Internet is that? (From six posts ago, now))
I've discovered, by lurking, that a lot of people are upset that the use of the #sayhername hashtag for Heather Heyer is upsetting quite a lot of people who think #sayhername is exclusively for use in identifying black victims of domestic violence.
And, worthy as I consider that latter highlighting to be, I only discovered that by misclicking. I'm really not sure that I would ever have known about the prior link, and I'm not familiar enough with logged-in Twitter to work out if a regular poster would have ever known anything about it, even after using it themselves (in good faith) for Heather's sake. Still, there's a lot of talk about "white appropriation", which I sympathise with but can't really see as something worth fighting over. The whole #randomwords nature of hashtags surely does not lend itself to "possessiveness". Much aside from the problems inherent in differentiating homonymic tags (to steal and repurpose a pre-Twitter example, can we differentiate between #PowergenItalia and #PowerGenitalia?), transiently at least the unintended 'appropriation' serves a greater good than exhaustively ensuring no possible historic use is being trod on the toes of, and could surely then be managed properly to highlight the original purpose as the current furor decays or transmutes into a new meme, to the benefit of the original campaign.
Or do I need to make sure, in my future fall into the black hole that ia Twitter, that (say) #GNUTerryPratchett does not accidentally interfere with the Ground Nut Error thing that Young People are making in discussing how Ratchet the Transformer feeds, or something, when I use it annually upon the "#GloriousTwentyFifth". Another troublesome tag, possibly.
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