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Can we not turn every single goddamn post that involves a trans person or transphobe into a collection of performatively transphobic statements, with a few peop
by _cenw 4y ago
Can we not turn every single goddamn post that involves a trans person or transphobe into a collection of performatively transphobic statements, with a few people going off to fighting windmills?
It's not a fun discussion to have, nobody approaches it open minded, nobody wants to be convinced beyond their surface level gut reaction.
I'd rather we put a boundary at "is it okay to use or promote software from people that many are ethically opposed".
- laserdancepony 4y ago[flagged]
- pxeger1 4y agoBoth. The point is, this is a list about a software release. I don't want this kind of argument.
- wut42 4y agoIn current times you cannot really forget/ignore the background of projects. Like some parts of the fedi are quite agressive at it e.g., auto-banning instances using Soapbox. One may want to know this background while reading a software release.
- _cenw 4y agoPro what? Someone explained why people aren't using Soapbox more widely and that using it could be considered a faux pas. In fact the developers of gotofedi actively joke about autobanning instances that use it. That by itself is not a "pro trans" statement. Yet all the responses are "hating the transes is not a crime tho!" level declarations of solidarity for a person you barely know. (fun fact: Alex is pretty toxic sans transphobia too.)
- wut42 4y agoI kinda regret putting "transphobic" in my own comment tbh- it may have been better to just say at "toxic personality". My intention when raising that fact was just to add color to the thread, not really to start a flame war, but I guess I should have expected this :)