EndOTWRacism doesn't suggest policy because the entire point is that the expert, WHO IS PAID to do this job should be doing it. It shouldn't be on the unpaid labor of the Abuse Team or a bunch of volunteers of color who are breaking their backs to do it. It's also for neutrality. The exact opposite of what your conspiracy is implying. It is so that nobody can content cop and that all viewpoints are relatively useless in the evaluation of OTW's practices. Again, if you have a problem with the promise for OTW to work on its TOS you should reread their original promises... where they state that they will check the TOS and look it over. This isn't a debate with people who made up this proposal, it's asking OTW to do what it promised in 2020 when it admitted that its harassment TOS did not properly cover intentional harassment (especially on the basis of race). The context here is lacking when you try and put "consultants" in quotes as if that isn't a real job (similar to HR).
Also to be clear here the reason why there's a massive change and wide gap in opinions is because of solidarity purposes. The conspiracy that "someone is lying/tricking people because they have nuanced opinions" is ignoring the fact that they purposefully called ALL fandom members with several opinions on what should be done with AO3 to protest. This is specified in their FAQ and tripled down on every time they reblog or retweet something with a "We do not endorse all of their beliefs on policy, we are just facilitating possible options" and those options vary wildly on solutions.
That's why the consultant is being called for and not policy. Nobody on EndOTWRacism agrees on policy, the point is to tell OTW that it needs to be looked over by them and for them to make a choice that follows their own core mission. Solidarity exists here on my side of the internet when it comes to the mistreatment of POC. You're upset that one person says that there shouldn't be a certain clause (on a hypothetical TOS that they don't have control over because OTW agreed to give it to a neutral party) and the other disagrees as if it is a sign of the movement being sketchy when instead it shows actual solidarity and the severity of the issue. This is a sign of severity and solidarity. The people who work with and for this protest don't have to agree on what SHOULD be done, because their demands are that OTW remembers that its paid employees were supposed to debate that. EndOTWRacism's entire job is to be a reminder that OTW had promised these changes, people with any opinion can at least agree that OTW promised they would hire this consultant and that it has yet to be done yet.
If you do not understand what solidarity with a group means, we can't have this conversation. Because accusing entire movements who literally claim over and over again that the policy opinions are not in their hands, and that several members disagree on the options, are all of one opinion is in monumentally bad faith. Nuance exists, you can disagree with a person on one point and still stand beside another point they had made. This pettiness towards .01% of fandom has rotted this discourse to the core, and frankly, racists purposefully did this by creating strawmen of random black and brown fans who were secretly "not real fans" to allow gatekeepers with the self-awareness of sporks try and jump them. We use AO3 just like the rest of you, and even when you search up the term you can see the diversity in the content being made here. As well as look through those who are supporting the movement and recognize that there's a large set of people. Hell, I literally scrolled through the term on Tumblr and saw two people VEHEMENTLY disagreeing about AO3 content who both supported the movement in two posts back to back. People are not war machines ready to kill random people over ship discourse when OTW is currently not done fulfilling its promises. Bigger fish to fry here.
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