@benroyce I think others have sort of traversed the other relevant points, but one I don’t see being talked about much is just how American-centric this way of thinking is. It assumes the poster and everybody on mastodon is American (or that American issues are the most important thing to every single user)
In the post you’re refencing, it’s about a kid being assaulted by a cop, with a picture of the assault included. Your reasoning is that it’s too important to CW because fascism is so dangerous. Which is true for you because you’re American, and this is an American event. But what about literally the rest of the world.
For somebody looking at this from any other country who would have preferred a content warning, the message you’re trying to get out is not important enough (to them) to justify having a picture of a cop assaulting somebody shown to them without warning.
And I feel like (and in the case of Palestine, we’ve witnessed time and time again) that if people from a much less ‘important’ place try to raise awareness of atrocities by sharing uncomfortable news and images, they are often hidden, suspended and banned.
Personally, I do often engage and follow US pol, but I have a lot of friends there, as well as my partner so I have a stake in it. But it is because of what I described above that I -cannot- choose to explore mastodon without US pol on days I don’t feel up to seeing it, because of this America-centric mindset people have when posting.