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@tillshadeisgone

"astounding levels of racism that white queer and trans fedi is spewing right now"

I mean, I genuinely can't speak to that given the problems with being able to see replies and stuff that Black Fedi has pointed out, but given the amount of times Ro has insisted that anyone who is upset with them or the bad space and their handling of these issues must be a racist, I'm inclined to doubt this. This just sounds like more name-calling and narcissistic attempts to avoid accountability to me.

"So many of you are erasing Ro's identity to fit your narrative that they are transphobic."

To my knowledge the narrative is not that they are transphobic, but that the sources they pulled from are.

"So many of you are desperately trying to fashion what you are reading as Black masculinity into a cudgel to use against them while using trans femininity as your shield, all so you dont have to address your whiteness."

I've not seen that at all, what I've seen is defenders of the bad space using their non-whiteness (and the very real problems the fedi has with racism) as a shield from criticism, and using white trans women's masculinity and perceived male socialization and whiteness as a cudgel against critics — even to the point of assuming that critical, upset black trans women are white!

"you are not entitled to immunity from the consequences of your own actions"

The entire reason people are angry is because a bunch of trans and queer instances were given consequences, without prior actions garnering them. I don't think most of the people angry with the bad space are angry bc they're racists who've finally got their comeuppance, as Ro's rhetoric would have you believe, it's because they and their friends are innocents who were accused of "hate speech, bigotry, and poor moderation" with no cause and then when they got upset about that (instead of just quietly and meekly coming to Ro and asking him to take them off the slander list like good little people) and concerned about how TheBadSpace has been handled overall, he just kept accusing them of being racist.