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1y ago

Blahaj admin defending a blatant transphobe

lemmy.blahaj.zone /post/2273975

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Enters a room full of trans people
Misgenders everyone
Well actually male is the default so
- is this solidarity?

Removing criticism of transphobia because "the evil hexbears" is fucking wild.
Placing anticommunism above transphobia on your priorities list guarantees a slide into fascism. Once you start covering up and defending bigotry as long as the bigots are anticommunists you give the perfect cover for fascists to fuck around in your space. By the time a server owner realises that they've made everyone non-fascist leave (or conform to the culture they create thus becoming part of them) they end up just accepting it because doing anything about it would mean killing the entire community population. Because the narcissistic power of being community owner comes first.
- they’re prioritizing anti-leftism over transphobia on an instance literally named after a transgender shark lmfao
- I agree with you and you're being really correct, but narcissistic is a slur. The origin of the word comes from the disability Narcissistic Personality Disorder. You're obvious talking about neurotypical behaviour, so could you use a different word?
  
  The origin of the word actually comes from the Greek myth, and vastly predates the disorder but I'm going to assume you're just trolling.
  
  Wouldn't choosing to maintain the fake sense of status that running an online community creates instead of deleting it because of the harm it does or will do definitionally narcissistic? Or is there a requirement here for such actions to be a lifelong pattern?

What kind of supposedly trans-friendly space has a bunch of people defending defaulting to male and getting upvoted? That shit would get dogpiled and banned here. It's really basic stuff, like on top of being misgendering it's also sexist. What is this, the 1800's? Simone de Beauvoir was criticizing it in the 40's.
- Legitimately this is extremely disgusting and vile behavior

Nice effort post.
In all honesty you seem like a person who doesn't like having any inaccurate or vague statements while communicating, leading to wordy posts. I commend you for that but it seems to automatically get vitriol on the internet before you factor in Blahaj Zone users being shitlibs. I highly doubt any change will happen on there but best of luck to you.

- I don't hate philosophy tube etc to be clear, I just find their videos to be self indulgent slop
  I don't disagree, but I think she and contra hold a special place in my heart cause they were really the start to my radicalization. Contra's earlier videos really got me thinking outside of a capitalist mindset and got me to think "oh, there's alternatives to capitalism, and gender, and blah blah blah", then I read the manifesto, then I started listening to Teach Me Communism, and then I became a chronically online tankie lol. I feel like I'm not the onlyyyy one that did this (I have friends who I think consider themselves socialist and anticapitalist who still like some of Contra's newer stuff), but I definitely feel like the vast majority of her fanbase is annoyingly liberal to a fault. In her recent 'anti-JK Rowling' lane she's been pretty decent I think except for when she steps even slightly out of it.
- I don't hate philosophy tube etc to be clear
  Then you should probably edit that you've misgendered her in that same sentence. Fucking gross, and it hurts doubly when it's coming from another trans woman.
  
  generally dont consider using they/them to be misgendering tbh, i default to it in trans spaces when i dont know someones gender. but its clearly being used in the plural here

I've only ever, ever heard 'male is just the default' from people who deny trans people exist. Everyone else, my entire life, refers to people of unknown gender with 'they/them', Shakespeare fuckin' does it, it's such an old argument based on literally nothing.

- Ada's going to be shocked when she finds out the user I told her was being transphobic is a transphobe. How could she have known, why didn't anyone tell her!? /s

I guess the post got 1984'd because I don't see it anymore.
- The post-Hexbear Blahaj really is something else.

Someone in there is positing that hexbear users are upvoting that post.
I mean, I guess we could make accounts on other servers, but we're defederated so that's kind of a hassle lol
- Is the hexbear in the room with us right now
- Are you now, or have you ever been, a member of Hexbear.net?

"I don't like politics" people are actually the devil incarnate
- i'm not really into politics, but [the most bigoted thing ever posted online]

Yeah, not surprised by this. Harboring chasers and kicking out trans communists is a great way to make your community a shithole of reactionary jerks.
- “i made my space ‘safe’ for anti-communists and now it’s mostly reactionaries! how could the left do this to me?!”

Whats your goal in posting this here? Hexbear has already defederated blahaj. It seems like the only other actions are dogpiling on individual users.
- I feel crazy for having the opinion that misgendering trans people is bad, and I want to hear people agree with me instead of gaslighting me.
  
  We love our mandatory pronoun tags here, it's great for rooting out transphobes who can't resist making smartass comments too.
  
  I've read the entire thread. that person did call you a guy and a dude, and their response is a pretty sad face-saving excuse.
  The way you have constructed this post reads to me like a vague call to action detailing the crimes of a person and group of persons. This may not be your intent, but at least one person interpreted it that way. You may wish to reflect on that in your future posts.
  Your feelings are real and valid, but your actions based on them only seem to be making it worse for yourself.

- What the fuck is chaserphobic and how is it a bad thing if it's a real thing? My cis-brain can't comprehend this
  
  It's what a particularly bold chaser invented to make not fucking them Ina hypothetical scenario a form of oppression.
  
  From the people that brought you "people of means" comes a whole new flavour of too-online-yet-not-online-enough nonsense fresh for this year of our lord two thousand and twenty-three

trans people should come here, especially to traa and other lgbt spaces here. even if they arent hard left we'd treat them better.
- As a person who feels anarchist principles would be the most benificial way to organize a society, I don't personally feel like its possible to be harder left.
  I always feel trepidatious engaging in hexbear threads. I can't tell if many of the takes on here are sincere or trolling, and the immediate mass response to guessing wrong is a dissincentive.
  
  Hexbear has some anarchists but more MLs. The mods delete more blatant sectarianism, but it's not always perfect.
  The main point of friction always ends up being US foreign policy. MLs see you criticizing a socialist state like China and think you're an anti, when of course it's still evil because all states are evil. But on the other hand, we're having this conversation in English. The biggest influence we'd have on Chinese politics from over here would be to convince other English speakers to support anti-China foreign policy in their own governments. That's state intervention, not anarchism.
  
  If Hexbears get at you for being a left anarchist report em. This is a left unity site. Sectarianism is not welcome. Our anarchist comrades are.

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