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(CW: transphobia) Lemmy cis "allies" and accusations of fake transness, name a more iconic duo.
(hexbear.net)
There is a spector haunting Lemmy, the spector of trans people that disagree with you.
Liberals on Lemmy are ridiculously fast to let fly all sorts of conspiracy theories if it means discrediting any trans people to the left of them. Worse still, is that this behaviour is reinforced by Lemmy mods, look at this ban Cowbee copped for the crime of being allegedly uncivil to this transphobe:
Every day, I'm glad for you fuckers building at least this tiny queer safespace on the internet. Death to the cis, etc.
The meanwhile on grad thread about this is even worse, CW transphobia:
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Peaked back into that thread, a gem: (no CW needed)
"Cowbee isn’t just another tankie. He knows his theory and will use it to dazzle you with bullshit."
Lmao
Tagline worthy tbh
Would be especially funny if we could have it detect your username and pronouns and do it that way, but I don't know how hard that is to accomplish.
The username part isn't very hard, there are already taglines that do that, but the pronouns is a bit more difficult. I think the current taglines just use "they/them".
Hm. I've seen some users explain why they (collective) don't like to be referred to by they/them pronouns, so that might be a different discussion.
Oh yea, I'm kinda in that group.
I'm aware, haha. Knew some others were in that group too, I probably could have worded that better.
On the bright side, some comrades are calling out how horrible that post is, though minimal.
Yep, imaqtpie tried to tell me Hexbear is "more bigoted" yet is peddling alt-right conspiracy theories that
cw: transphobia
Foreign nations are "transing" the youth.Unsurprising from the instance that maintains MWoG and NCD.
he is an admin of sh.itjust.works
Oh I'm aware, they got really mad when I suggested that defederation is censorship. Here's a "fun" thread to read where they spell it out. Even accuses HB of being more bigoted than sh.itjust.works and had an edgy monologue like they were Sephiroth.
For clarity, censorship can be a good thing. Removing bigotry and misinformation is good. Suggesting that you aren't doing so is manipulative and dishonest, though, and clearly sh.itjust.works has bigoted admins.
although he's being an edgy bigot, i really hate this trend of calling anything with passion in it 'sephiroth posting' like come on
Fair, who do you suggest? I mostly used it because I saw others using it. It was impassioned but purely because they were getting flustered from getting called out.
Genuinely asking, I have no attachment to the phrasing whatsoever.
lol i read that he is a diehard
Definitely, lmao.
Did you post about your ban/removal on [email protected] ?
Nah, I'd rather not do that as the weirdos on MWoG are already relatively obsessed with me and I'd rather not give them ammo for me being "drama obsessed" or something. I could have done it earlier when they perma-banned me from Political Memes for calling out the moderators on removing comments explaining how the Democrats are complicit in Palestinian genocide, but didn't for similar reasons.
I'm 100% fine if someone else wants to make a post, though, I'd just rather not do it myself.
Very mature and cool headed of you. Still shit that we need to be the bigger people.
I agree, but over time I've come to realize that as much dirt as they smear on leftists, eventually they reveal their real character, such as when they defend transphobia or
cw: transphobia from sh.itjust.works admin
Claim there's a conspiracy from foreign countries to intentionally "trans the youth" into radicalization against the US EmpireEventually these contradictions put them out of touch with their more "normal" userbase, we win when they damage themselves. Doesn't hurt to help the process along, though, which is why I'm not against anyone making a post about it if they feel so obligated.
I agree, long term, we'll win out. It just sucks to see it in the present.
Why would anyone pretend to be trans with how much shit they have to take.
See, that's the strangest part. Transphobes do post-hoc justifications to reconfirm their biases, regardless of any actual merit.
We're gonna wear this emoji out soon.
It would be worn into dust if you peaked into MWoG for any length of time.
Sometimes I get morbid curiosity, that Frisish user apparently has me listed as "tankie influencer" which is kinda cute. The biggest thing though is that it's overwhelmingly clear that any vague notions of being "left, just anti-tankie" is immediately overrun with defense of transphobia, anti-leftism, anti-DEI, anti-"wokeness" alt-right talking points, and it's abundantly clear that no user there actually has read Marx.
As an example, one visitor had recently read Anti-Dühring from Engels and was confused as to why a MWoG post was titled something along the lines of "banned for knowing Marxsim better than an ML," yet the body of the post showing the supposed knowledgable user's takes contradicted what they had read with Engels. The mod on MWoG proceded to talk down to them and claim the Bolsheviks were anti-Marxist for the NEP and that it was the SRs and Mensheviks who knew better, and that the Nazi led Hungarian revolt was a "real worker movement."
Very silly place indeed.
"If we treat you like a human being, the Russians win somehow."
"how can there be 50% trans people that's so unrealistic"
That part was especially baffling. Like, you're getting accused of transphobia and are defending it, and you wonder why trans people flock to explicitly trans-positive instances? Do they not see the connection there, that perhaps the queer side may indeed have a point?