[JuniperMesos]

I suspect it's because the people who write for The Verge are themselves non-black progressives who think it's morally important to engage with black businesses in a way they see as anti-racist. So scammers deliberately creating fake black people to make emotional, anti-racist appeals to buy scam products particularly offends or seems relevant to the specific individuals at The Verge who pitched, wrote, edited, and approved this article.

According to the byline, the author of this article is a person named Nicole Froio. According to her personal website: https://nicolefroio.com/about-nicole/ and MuckRack page https://muckrack.com/nicole-froio/articles , she is a Colombian-Brazilian journalist who describes herself as an "anarcho-feminist", has multiple academic degrees in humanities fields with some kind of intersectional feminist bent, and has written for various progressive publications in her career.

In other words, she is exactly the kind of person I would expect to find it personally morally and politically important to buy products from actual black creators, and so to find scams about black creators being personally meaningful, and worth specifically writing about.

[halJordan]

Yeah I'm very confused by the original commenter's claimed ignorance. We went through this bleating at full tilt during and after covid and it being forced onto everyone at all times where "if you don't like it you're affirmatively racist" was one of the reasons voters went back to Trump. Why is it so incredibly hard for Americans to have a memory, or cognition of any sort?!

[joxdosba]

I’m European :)