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@mekkaokereke my issue with the whole bad space thing is that what you descrihe isn't really what was happening.

Ro was just accusing anyone who was angry at him for the harms he'd negligently caused, or doubtful about the fundamental approach of the bad space (for the very reasons you list here!) racist and anti-Black, constantly, over and over, while tone-policing, downplaying, etc. It's not that the people he was responding to were actually saying "see! We don't need block lists!" He just wanted to paint it that way. In essence, he was creating a civility trap for anyone criticizing him — harm a bunch of trans women, then insist that anyone who is upset about that or questions the basics of how TheBadSpace approached blocklists was racist, while if you weren't racist you'd just be nice and just quietly contribute to his project without speaking up. (While of course being dismissive to people who actually did bring up even small points for improvement).

So this whole thread seems rhetorically suspect to me — the main actors here are not "fashy trans women," so your focus on them for several posts, starting the conversation with them, and then talking about the civility trap and people claiming block lists aren't needed, is false rhetorical framing designed to paint the other side of this controversy as "fashy trans." This is to exact sort of thing Ro was doing, sounding all nice and civil and calm and reasonable while using dirty rhetorical tricks to tar the trans people upset with or critical of his project as racist. And it's just so ironic you're doing the same kind of thing you're talking about with the civility trap.