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@mekkaokereke (it feels awful to argue this point bc I agree with your larger project and a lot of the stuff you've said about racism on the fedi, but I just can't let this rhetorical move slide)

sure, he did work with people that were sufficiently nice about his project by-default guilty-until-proven-innocent biasdly accusing them of things, but I really don't think setting up the conflict so that anyone who is upset with him and/or doesn't want to engage with him — because of his rhetoric and the bad practices that the bad space has already engaged in — is anti-black and a racist is a good way to frame things, its a civility trap and tone policing, and its a framing Ro has consistently over and over pushed (which is precisely why people don't want to engage with him!) and it's one you're continuing to push. The fact that he accepted quiet, meek contributions to the project doesn't actually change or undercut my point at all, in fact its specifically something I mentioned in my original point. It's just classic tone policing. You're not allowed to be upset at him.

Edit: Also, as it turns out, I'm right to not want to engage with him directly and so is everyone else, and I'm also right that he mostly doesn't take criticism normally and just immediately goes to accusations of racism. Here's an example: https://archive.ph/lHBEX