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@ThatFemboy "I honestly think that people *are* being racist by hurling toxicity at Ro and trying to shut TBS down and they need to fucking stop"

Read the thread pinned to my profile. TBS has some serious fundamental foundational problems that make me absolutely not trust it and think that even if it isn't specifically transphobic it will continue to be the long arm of the fediHOA and be used for petty power tripping reasons. And yes personally throwing toxicity and insults and expletives and stuff directly at Ro is bad. I think most of the people who take it in their heads to directly message him to tell him to fuck off or something are probably racist. But in general I think he has more than earned a lot of the negativity and criticism directed at him, at least from me and the people I follow, for his absolutely atrocious behavior. This didn't have to turn into the clusterfuck it turned into. But when people started criticizing TBS and being upset at the very poor way that he handled blindly importing a couple gigantic block lists, labeling them all as blocked for hate speech and bigotry by default, and how that list overwhelmingly featured trans woman, he couldn't take the criticism and started accusing everyone who didn't come to him with a sufficiently nice and meek tone and ask to be taken off the slander list and then offer to help with the project or pay him — thereby automatically excluding anyone who has fundamental foundational questions about TBS that make them wary of contributing — of racism.

I agree that this is not an excuse to start harassing him. I think he is possibly slightly transphobic, definitely ableist as fuck, can't take criticism, and problematically co-opts leftist language, but I don't think it's to the point where it could possibly justify harassment, and NOTHING can justify racist harassment. Which he HAS been receiving, and which is FUCKED. UP.