Yeah that game brings out the worst in the “woke” people.
With good reason. Nobody has just picked a game at random and said 'everyone must hate this game now for no reason whatsoever'.
But, as I said, in a previous comment, there is a difference between ignorance and wilful ignorance. Up until a couple of years ago I was totally unaware of JKR's transphobia. This was because I read the first HP book when it first came out, thought it was shit and dismissed it and her from my mind. I've never had a twitter account and I don't read the 'celebrity' bits of news websites so I knew nothing of the whole situation. As a result, when a trans friend of mine started talking about it, I responded out of ignorance. Thankfully, they realised it was ignorance not malice and took me through the whole thing.
My point being, it's impossible to tell from just this quoted exchange if the PD Admin is being ignorant or willfully ignorant. If it's the former I hope they come to realise their error and how it affects people. If it's the latter, they can do one.
A shame. It reads (particularly at the top of that thread) like an ignorant Admin and a typical Hexbear user(s).
Please note when I say that that I am not suggesting or implying that the Admin was not in the wrong, but that when the Admin said:
It’s literally the opposite of transphobic. It’s like they tried as hard as they could to negate everything bad JKR has ever said…
That seems more like something someone ignorant of a lot of things would say and not necessarily what someone intent on being awful would say. The response to them, also from a Hexbear user, was:
You’re a transphobic clown that cares more about your Harry Potter treats than trans people. Stop pretending otherwise.
Maybe that's true and maybe it's not. Certainly in the remainder of that thread, the Admin falls pretty short of decent behaviour. However, I think if that first response to the Admin's response had not been so judgemental and had maybe seen it as ignorance rather than malice and level headedly gone on to explain why the Admin is wrong without the (i think we can all agree) standard Hexbear method of engagement, maybe (not definitely, but maybe) the outcome might have been an ally rather than a defederation.
I suspect that I'm going to get responses to that paragraph stating it's not a trans persons responsibility to educate others. I do see that and understand it as I am part of a minority group that has been marginalised, persecuted and wished out of existence for hundreds if not thousands of years. I understand exactly how annoying and exhausting it is to feel like you have to continually explain why it's OK you exist.
But I've also come to realise the difference between ignorance and wilful ignorance and that it's always worth making at least one try with someone. 99% of the time it gets you nowhere, but sometimes it gets you an ally.
I understand the defederation decision and it doesn't affect my choice to be on Blahaj at all. I guess my hope is that the two Admin's can talk it out and that refederation is an available option but that if that doesn't happen, the PD Admin at least learns how they behaved is transphobic and they change their ways.
I understand that. Neither option is 'good'. But one of the options will (in my opinion) have a bloody good go at removing your ability to have the option at all in the future.
I'm not American but what's happening in the US and what will happen when/if Trump gets re-elected definitely worries me. It's difficult not to sound overly dramatic or hyperbolic about the situation but it really does feel like the US is uncomfortably close right now to a christofascist state. And if you just rolled your eyes at that word, take a look at who's currently second in line to the US presidency.
If Trump does win, I really fear for American democracy. Do you really think a man who encouraged an armed insurrection to support a subversion of an election will pause to think twice about removing the few rights large sections of America currently have? And if the process prevents him, do you think he'd think twice about dismantling the process? At gun point if necessary?
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And by omitting the 'cheerleading of gen Z' from the context of the discussion, you feel this more accurately sums up Fosters overall feelings about Gen Z?
Before you get annoyed with Foster over a cherry picked BBC article, read the much more in depth Guardian piece they lifted quotes from. It'll give you much more context.
Yeah, just me and a well respected national newspaper.
Who on earth is talking about protecting rapists? The other names are still going to be on there so you can have your little moment of glee seeing all those people you hate named and shamed.
You're not interested in the rights of victims whatsoever - you're one of those people who loves to air their righteous indignation as publicly as possible, never giving a thought to the fact there's actual people, actual victims who this man and his friends raped and abused and just possibly it might be an idea, to prevent them having to relive that trauma, to ensure that their names don't become fodder to every internet mob and tabloid editor in the world.
Your point is that if something bad you’re imagining happens, bad things might happen?
From the article you clearly haven't read;
"It may also name Epstein’s alleged victims who had been taken to homes...."
I realise that, to you, it's much more important to gloat over the names of people you don't like you hope are on there. My perspective is that, if there are indeed names of victims amongst these 200 names as seems at the very least a distinct possibility, in order to prevent them being re-victimised , it might be better to take the time to do everything that can be done to stop that happening because, I assure you, to a rape or abuse victim, the risks are neither hypothetical or indirect.
As I understand it, these aren't just names he'd (or Maxwell) wrote down or otherwise recorded, these are names linked to him through various sources. Some of his victims might not even know they're on that list (if they even are). Not all victims voluntarily come forward and suddenly being named like this might be a massive shock. Just because you're OK with a victim being named, doesn't mean they are. They've already gone through at least one violation.
I'm all for catching rapists and abusers, but there must be ways of handling this that don't involve just info dumping loads of names to the general public. At the very least, shouldn't they be released to some sort of authority that can investigate and sift out potential victims before they're plastered everywhere?
"Nearly 200 names connected to the Jeffrey Epstein-Ghislaine Maxwell sex trafficking conspiracy could be released by a New York judge as soon as Tuesday, exposing or confirming the identities of dozens of associates of the disgraced financier..."
'dozens' is not the same as 200. Therefore, I'd have to assume that some of those names, that are just described as 'connected' to Epstein could very well be his victims. I could well be wrong, it just seems a bit concerning that no one's considered how the actual victims feel about this.
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With good reason. Nobody has just picked a game at random and said 'everyone must hate this game now for no reason whatsoever'.
But, as I said, in a previous comment, there is a difference between ignorance and wilful ignorance. Up until a couple of years ago I was totally unaware of JKR's transphobia. This was because I read the first HP book when it first came out, thought it was shit and dismissed it and her from my mind. I've never had a twitter account and I don't read the 'celebrity' bits of news websites so I knew nothing of the whole situation. As a result, when a trans friend of mine started talking about it, I responded out of ignorance. Thankfully, they realised it was ignorance not malice and took me through the whole thing.
My point being, it's impossible to tell from just this quoted exchange if the PD Admin is being ignorant or willfully ignorant. If it's the former I hope they come to realise their error and how it affects people. If it's the latter, they can do one.