William Monroe Trotter, born on this day in 1872, was a newspaper editor and civil rights activist based in Boston, Massachusetts who co-founded the Niagara Movement with WEB Du Bois.
Trotter was an early opponent of the accommodationist race policies of Booker T. Washington, and in 1901 founded the Boston Guardian, an independent African-American newspaper he used to express that opposition.
Trotter was a key founding member of the "Niagara Movement" with W.E.B. Du Bois and contributed to the formation of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), although he never participated in the group due to a bitter split with Du Bois.
"My vocation has been to wage a crusade against lynching, disenfranchisement, peonage, public segregation, injustice, denial of service in public places for color, in war time and peace."
- William Monroe Trotter
https://trotter.umich.edu/article/timeline-william-monroe-trotters-life
I hope you nerds have a good month of April 
Remember no crackers
Reddit is weirdly illiterate for being a completely text-based platform.
I’ve had too many instances where I’ll be discussing something and someone reads the first sentence and dismisses the entire rest of my comment based on that. It’s like you have to constantly type in hooks and clickbait filled with epic one-liners to move the discussion forward.
I see it everywhere online. YouTube, forums, Discord, etc. Doesn't matter. Chuds often start frothing at the mouth and post whatever buzzwords they think win the "argument" (it's an argument the same way a child whines their parents won't buy them a toy at the store is an "argument").
Not to mention, some people are so wrong it would take months of educating them to get a baseline where they can actually discuss the topic with you. Their lack of reading comprehension doesn't help. Example: the Destiny vs. Finkelstein "debate." Except that's every discussion everywhere online with liberals and reactionaries.
Holy shit, this is reminding me of this moment that lives rent-free in my head where I typed a whole-ass comment on Reddit explaining why "anti-white racism" is not a thing, and, in said comment, I specifically mentioned that acts of anti-white prejudice do happen, but such do not entail systemic harm and cannot be considered racism.
Despite this, some bozo responded to me by retelling this moment when some Black teenagers moved into their neighborhood and called them things like "whitey" and "cracker" as their sole "evidence" against my entire comment, thinking that we are automatically granting that anti-white prejudice "counts" as racism.
They basically are so caught-up in that semantic trap of believing that anti-white prejudice must be denoted a form of "racism" that they legitimately believed that my point was to argue that anti-white prejudice does not exist rather than arguing that it does exist but it is not "racism," despite my comment unequivocally saying otherwise.
Years ago, I stopped interacting with these people. They've had systemic prejudice explained to them, why trans women are women, how intersectionality works, why liberals aren't leftists, etc. and they double down on why those are all wrong. I can only conclude it's deliberate. They say the wrong things on purpose because they want to hurt people they don't like based on immutable characteristics. They will make any justifications to inflict harm on others while stealing their shit.
The best thing to do is talk more to the audience and ignore reactionaries who say such nonsense. The only replies those types get from me is insults telling them to fuck off.
Liberals and Chuds often make this mistake, where the only racism that exists are slurs and overt discrimination. They fundamentally do not understand the systemic definition or think systemically, everything is personal-individual and moralized.
That’s how you know it’s a human and not an LLM. LLM bots typically respond to the last thing you said or try to address everything point by point (but miss a few)
Blessed be illiteracy, it’s how you know you speak to a human in 2026