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What the hell are you doing or saying to warrant that kind of negative attention?
by transcriptase 2y ago
What the hell are you doing or saying to warrant that kind of negative attention?
- EasyMark 2y agoAll you have to be is a proponent of ________ politics, LGBTQ, an opinionated woman, etc and you will receive death/rape threats on twitter. I’m sure 99% of them are bots, but still it can be unnerving. A strong opinion on a contentious topic will get you death threats eventually. That’s why I have DMs turned off and block/mute rather than engage trolls
- bertil 2y agoI don’t even mention any of that.
- bertil 2y agoI’ll let you guess. The thing that pisses people off the most is quoting well-known facts and statistics. Ironically, it’s making Elon Musk sound like a hero. The fact that you don’t know and people offer dozens of credible guesses should probably tell you the problem is widespread.
- xena 2y agoIt's pretty easy to get that kind of vitriol if you say that you want people like you to continue existing.
- ipaddr 2y agoAnd you say this to people you label not like you. You probably have more in common than you think. You both agree to label the other and you decided to fight a proxy battle from the agreed among identities. Do you want the other side not to exist as well? If yes let them know.
- virgildotcodes 2y agoPeople defending themselves from bigotry, and bigots themselves, are not equivalent. Black people not wanting racists to exist, and racists not wanting black people to exist, do you see a distinction? There has been such a consistent attempt at ramming square pegs into round holes online in trying to “both sides” a bunch of these issues. One trait is immutable and the other is not. One trait is entirely internally focused and is not defined by a rejection of anyone external to the subject, the other's trait is entirely defined by such an external focus on the rejection of another person's immutable identity.
- ipaddr 2y agoYou guess racist? I had a different first guess. Then I had a better second guess. I then had a three and fourth guess. Then I wasn't sure at all. None of them were racism. This becomes a personality test that speaks about who you are and what battles you always see.
- virgildotcodes 2y agoSubstitute homosexuality, being transgender, or whatever you'd like.
- ipaddr 2y agoTry words you may not like too like right wing or Trump supporter. Still work?
- virgildotcodes 2y agoBeing a right wing trump supporter is an immutable characteristic like being black or gay?
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- mulmen 2y agoThat kind of attention is never warranted.
- rsynnott 2y agoI got some of this years back, by offending Milo Yiannopoulis (who apparently used to search his own name for stuff to point his followers at), back when he was still a far-right darling. Took about a day of mass-block-lists to weed the enraged Nazi teenagers out of my at-mentions. That was just a single incident, being noticed by far-right weirdos thankfully not being a regular thing for me. But I can imagine it would get old quickly if you were the sort of person who was. Bluesky’s far superior self-moderation is absolutely very useful here.