I don't comment on most posts dealing with racial issues, but do comment on fanfic. It has nothing to do with how valuable I find one or the other. I comment on fanfic because that is the expected form of "payment" for a well-written story. I don't generally comment on racial issues because I'm a white middle-class American woman with very little experience dealing with people of color. There are many articulate people out there championing the white-middle-class perspective; unless someone is being exceptionally racist about it, I don't really need to speak up. And the more white people who talk about racism in a forum as white-oriented as fandom is, the less the voices of POC stand out. So I'm much more likely to post a rec to a race meta post by a POC than to comment on it.
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