I know perfectly well I can’t ban anyone from my thread. Good thing I didn’t say that then.
I implicitly welcome all visitors to my threads, but withdrew it for an individual. For what that’s worth, my words are merely—how you say?—performative. Never an intention of overstepping a mod’s duties. More like an exasperated yawp of “Oh crap, not you again,” but spiffed up a bit.
Why is this posted here? What thread are you talking about?
I’m a little clueless to what you’re talking about.
ETA: Oh jeez, this is a reply to a modnote from engineer_comp_geek,
I’m going to split it off to its own thread and close this one.
Please don’t do this again. Make a small effort to link to what you’re talking about and not place it in an unrelated thread.
Whoops, sorry! Wasn’t sure where to place it.
Your exact words were this:
You did not use the word “ban” but you made it very clear that you did not want them posting in your thread. You may have intended it more as an “oh crap, not you again” but it came off more like “don’t post here”.
Regardless of your history with a particular user, as long as they are behaving themselves, they are free to post in any thread, except for those that moderators have banned them from. Even an “oh crap, not you again” post is probably a bit much for an MPSIM thread. Those kind of personal remarks belong in the Pit, not in MPSIMS.
And, as I said in the mod note, if they do misbehave, flag it. We’ll respond accordingly.
I’ll respect you asking me not to post in the thread you started, but I want you to know I genuinely don’t share or endorse the hurtful views in the article I linked to, or what Trump is doing to trans people in the US, or whatever nonsense people are inventing in the Pit. I want a genuinely liberal society where people are free to live their lives the way they want, and if I was American I would have reluctantly voted for Kamala.
I don’t expect you to like me, but I’m not your enemy.
You sound genuinely wounded by my rejection of you. I don’t recall that you’ve shown vulnerability in response to anyone else before now. If you’ve had a change of heart, a real metanoia, it’d be better to come right out and genuinely renounce the harmful transphobic beliefs you’ve spread about for years. That would be a sound basis for going forward positively. Even better would be to start working for the benefit of trans people to make up for the harm you’ve contributed to. One can’t have it both ways.
I haven’t changed my views. You don’t have agree with every progressive belief on trans people to think they should be free to live their lives, call themselves what they want, get medical treatment they need, and be protected from discrimination and reasonably accommodated by society. That’s what I’ve always believed. I wasn’t expecting anyone to attribute all kinds of disturbing and authoritarian aims to me. If what I do say and think bothers you then so be it, but it doesn’t help either of us to hate me for something that isn’t even true.
I very much doubt I’ve contributed to any harm by talking about the subject online. But I’ve spent more time arguing with ‘terfs’ than progressives in the last year or so anyway, since half of them self-radicalised into something equally illiberal.
Well, that’s disappointing. That you believe your spreading transphobic bigotry online is harmless is at odds with your becoming suicidal at being criticized online. It shows you have a lot more introspection to do. A lot more reflection on the consequences of your choices.
Well. Do you believe they should therefore stop criticising me? If not, you must agree justifications exist for causing even very serious negative feelings and offence.
And don’t bother bringing up the much-abused ‘paradox of tolerance’. The comments that upset me so much were nothing to do with transgender people or issues, IIRC it was over me critiquing academic critical race theory (or parts of it) as non-disprovable, something no sane person could call intolerance. It doesn’t matter what the reason for a pile-on is, it’s viscerally triggering to have a large number of people attack you at once.
The problem here is that the intolerance is not happening a vacuum. CRT is a framework, any research that use it has to stand by the evidence they find.
The pile on from the right demonstrates how intolerable they are when they ban CRT; and then one notices that well researched CRT papers about China’s bad treatment of the Uyghurs, are banned from being mentioned in classrooms now.
Besides showing where intolerance really is, that showed me how dumb many radical conservatives in the US are by removing good information that should educate all, not just their base, about what the Chinese government is doing.