In her heyday, she was on straight after the top 40 on a Sunday, which one glorious time led to her kicking off the show with 'Chemical Warfare' by Slayer almost immediately after the new UK No.1 had just finished playing.
Growing up in the 80's, Annie Nightingale, John Peel and Tommy Vance were the only DJ's on Radio 1 you could be sure of hearing something actually worth listening to.
It literally isn't. Any government, including the Israeli government, is capable of being genocidal.
That who engage with whom?
If you don't think the opinions of government ministers up to and including the PM have any weight on current or future policy, then I admire your ability to ignore reality.
Can you provide verified, independent proof that that is true?
You're right. Why would any country want to make/farm/produce their own food? They should just shut up and be grateful, right?
No argument there. Sadly, the IDF, on the orders of the Israeli government, seem either unable or unwilling to differentiate between Hamas and Palestinians.
Lots of people and countriesare claiming Russia is committing genocide and are investigating that possibility.
Several nations and legal institutions have also classed China's actions against the Uyghur as genocidal.
However, as far as I'm aware neither Russia or China are signed up to the ICC so there's not much point in using that body to penalise them.
Israel is though and your claim there's no proof is literally true (in the sense you used the word 'proof') but there is plenty of evidence that Israel certainly has genocide very much in the forefront of their minds when members of the Israeli government suggest nuking Gaza, or creating 'no go' areas for Palestinians in recognised Palestinian areas that just so happen to be where Palestinian farmers grow and harvest food. Israeli historian of the Holocaust Omer Bartov warned that statements made by top Israeli officials "could easily be construed as indicating a genocidal intent."
Leaving aside the issue of whether you and/or the other user should've been banned or not, I'm curious as to what you expect members of an entirely different community on an entirely different instance to do about it? Or even feel about it?
You're right, denying the reality of who a person is is a shitty thing to do. I dislike Hexbear as an instance and as a collection of individuals, they're often appallingly behaved and I want nothing to do with people who routinely deny or attempt to justify mass murders because its politically convenient. However, who they are is who they are and I see no reason to assume that if they say they're trans, they're not without some actual evidence.
Markets are greedy and never satisfied. A fracturing of services has led to situation where it's impossible for the average person to be able to afford all the streaming services they need in order to watch their stuff. And even if they could, they now have to pay extra to exclude adverts - the lack of which was a major selling point for streaming services. Pay extra to watch in high quality and no matter what service you use and what content you've bought - music, TV, books, movies. games - it's all stuffed full of DRM that can literally remove the media from your devices. You don't even really own the stuff you've bought.
So yeah, I fully appreciate why some people pirate stuff.
I appreciate being kept informed to be honest. I'd much rather that than find out after the fact. Apart from anything else it gives the two Admin's a chance to discuss things, something that's clearly paid off here as the the other instance Admin has expressed regret the incident happened and said Admins should do better and the Admin who committed the offence has apologised. I think the apology must've been sincere as @Ada has stayed the decision to defed.
I'll very sadly and reluctantly have to do the same, if that happens - and whilst I'm not saying you're wrong, I've not seen @Ada say anything along those lines, certainly not officially.
I do understand wanting trans-positive instances to stick together but I do feel like there is a line and that 'the enemy of my enemy' is not automatically my friend. Or, to put it another way, trans (or disabled, or gay or black or whomever) individuals are just as capable of being shitty people as anyone else and if there's a whole instance that is largely made up of shitty individuals only capable of expressing themselves with fury and hate, the fact they are supportive of or part of minority groups is not enough to make me want to share space with them or be subjected to their methods.
Grant Shapps, the guy who got caught editing his own Wikipedia entry? That guy? They guy who repeatedly denied having a second job whilst a minister but it turned out he did, under an alias, touting a get rich quick scam? The guy who in 2018 said he voted Remain but then last year said he'd voted Leave? That Grant Shapps?
My own reaction to the Admin's first comment was 'ignorance' which then devolved as the thread devolved.
Although from own experience, even genuinely ignorant people do a fair bit of digging in at first too. Challenging someone's opinion is difficult. But you're right, there does come a point when you realise you're flogging a dead horse.
I get that, I really do. As I said previously, belonging to a minority group myself I don't see it as my responsibility to teach everyone who's uninformed. I'm definitely not saying anyone should accept any kind of comment with a smile, but there are times when I do do that both on and offline if I feel the comment in question was genuine ignorance rather than malice. I realise that that is my choice and doesn't reflect on how anyone else handles situations like this and that as Admin of Blahaj you have a duty of care to all its users.
I guess I feel that allies (and I mean that in a general sense, not specifically trans allies or disability allies or queer allies etc) are increasingly rare and if there's an opportunity to alleviate someone's genuine ignorance, its a chance worth taking. But I also realise there's a possibility I'm being naive.
I absolutely agree with that too. I'm not suggesting their subsequent statements were not transphobic as they clearly were. That's why I fully support @Ada's decision to defed.
My point was really that, the flashpoint seems (to me) to be the two sentences I quoted. The one from the Admin seemed ignorant rather than openly malicious, the one from the Hexbear user was just accusative. That, in my opinion, was an opportunity to address the Admin's ignorance.
Everything after that, the Admin has no excuse over.
I just can't help feeling that had that initial exchange been with a non-Hexbear user(s), it might've developed differently. I don't know that for a fact obviously and maybe the PD Admin has a history of that sort of behaviour, I'm solely going by what was in that thread. By no means am I excusing their later behaviour, which was transphobic, all I'm saying is that those two sentences that I quoted seem (to me anyway) to be the flashpoint and that if it had not been a Hexbear pile on, ignorance could've been challenged in a way that might've lead to allyship.
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In her heyday, she was on straight after the top 40 on a Sunday, which one glorious time led to her kicking off the show with 'Chemical Warfare' by Slayer almost immediately after the new UK No.1 had just finished playing.