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Here's a receipts thread for the stuff I said about Ro, since its morning now and I have the energy. Enjoy.

The big thing I should note going in is that he's incredibly good at sounding calm and reasonable while in actuality setting up outrageous rhetorical traps for anyone who disagrees with him by co-opting progressive language to serve his narcissistic need to never actually have to admit when he's wrong or made a mistake.

He simultaneously accuses everyone who's upset at him for causing real actual harm and creating a project whose foundational ideas are pretty shaky of being anti-Black and racist, which is deeply disingenuous and allows him to paint himself as fighting back against a horde of slavering racists who are not arguing in good faith so he can ignore the things people are saying, and then also at the same time says, to make himself look reasonable, that people should just help him improve it and he wouldn't be mad if people genuinely came to him with criticisms and ideas on how to improve it, which of course is just an imaginary possibility he's conjured for the rhetorical optics, and creates a tone policing rhetorical environment where you have to accept the premise of his list and not be mad at him for the harms he has caused and just happily contribute to avoid being labeled as racist — while, of course, he is also dismissive to people who come to him with genuine improvement ideas too (https://mas.to/@andthisismrspeacock/111054935597964152) or genuine concerns about the concept as a whole (one of the screenshots in the receipts). It's very much the classic "*holds hands up in the air* well if I made a mistake just show me where the mistake was and help me fix it!" (he also does this with his latent transmisogyny).

I'll be posting receipts in groups of four bc that's the attachment limit. They're in no particular order.