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I usually don’t give a fuck when someone I follow online decides to become a vocal spokesperson for awful shit, online or in person, you have to expect some number of the agreeable people around you to have skeletons in their closet that you are just not okay with.
Contra’s collapse I didn’t call. This one is really unfortunate. It was her videos that got me out of “I don’t know about this trans stuff, I don’t care, just keep it out of my face” to something a bit more understanding. Nobody was putting anything in my face, etc
This is one of the few “celebrity” “betrayals” that really sting. Her, Ethan Klein, Steven Wilson, I can’t think of too many.
Can’t wait to wake up tomorrow to news that Grant Imahara personally signed the Ottoman horses that were used by officers rounding up Armenians or some shit
I do expect better from one of the (formerly?) biggest and most accessible leftie video people than I expect from Mastercard, personally. Is she that comparable to [pop star] or [tv show]?
I feel like being whipped with this tweet as a reply to something I’ve written should be a sign to go outside, but I really don’t see myself in it. I really don’t follow anyone particularly closely, not in the way I’d need to to feel targeted by this, I don’t think.
It's more a sign that you've been outside. Our community has had a bunch of contra haters (for mostly valid reasons) since before we were on Hexbear. I wish we would sometimes offer other users, especially federated users like you, a bit more grace.
A lot of our community is/were active on Twitter which creates an instinct to "go in for the dunk" at any opportunity available that I've always vocally disliked.
I don’t feel too offended because I’ve been lurking on Hexbear for over a year now, I understand the culture here is a bit more Twittery. I don’t think every individual here is super catty, just that there’s a lot more Twitter influence than most of Lemmy/Piefed, and as someone who fled Twitter in like 2012, it’s a bit of a damper on an otherwise fun time. I’m all for building bridges with the Only Funny Instance™, even if we do disagree on like 20% of leftism stuff.
The general federated (mostly libby) “big tent” Lemmy/Piefed culture is much closer to tech forums or early R*ddit, which is pretty pleasant most of the time. But it does come with a handful of Zionists etc. That can only be annoying, but when their pitiful replies get downvoted, contrasted with waves of support from all over the world under my posts about day to day life being terrorized by Natenyahu’s murder machine here in Lebanon, it’s reassuring to see how insignificant they are. They can keep barking.
I’ve been aware of Contra’s issues for a long time. I’m not queer so some of the controversies weren’t intuitively “big” or “insignificant” to me. But like five six years ago, when the only message successfully being boosted to consistently reach my young mind was Jorkin D Peanitson, she really was one of the first voices of reason that put the brakes on me falling into the wrong pipeline. FWIW I haven’t seen any of her videos in years.
This is not about contra hate, this is just the normal reaction to petite bourgeoisie worship, though I think most of Hexbear would be in alignment with you and reformed-transphobe here, simply because of MLism.