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1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Aug-2018 11:14:02 EDT Strypey

   Wow. Just wow. Here's a bunch of people doing exactly what the alt-right do; sea-lioning, dogpiling, and moaning about their freeze peach when someone chooses to block their posts from their social media feed. Sorry @wilw, this is just the fediverse's way of letting you know we're not like the birdsite where Nazis harrass people with impunity ... we're it's surreal mirror image, where a loud minority of trans folks and their allies do it :-/
   https://mastodon.cloud/@wilw/100631175

   1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Aug-2018 11:26:49 EDT Strypey

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      @wilw also, I'm now following you in solidarity, as someone who's also had to find a kind but self-respecting way to deal with people who support good causes in really toxic ways (and has probably also done so myself at times, mea culpa). To paraphrase Dr Suess: "be who you are, and say what you feel, those who mind don't matter, those who matter don't mind". Finally, I agree with every word in this, thanks for making the effort.
      http://wilwheaton.net/2018/06/regarding-blocklists-trolls-twitters-systemic-inaction-against-abuse-and-the-responsibility-of-wielding-great-power/

      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Aug-2018 11:47:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

         in reply to
         hooktube.com/m1bCUYjhv_Y
         
         MC Frontalot: Your friend Wil
         1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Aug-2018 17:33:18 EDT Strypey

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            @clacke hooktube didn't work for me today, but I was able to watch that video using invidio.us

   2. A Simon Grant (asimong@social.coop)'s status on Thursday, 30-Aug-2018 09:37:56 EDT A Simon Grant

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      @strypey @wilw this is so flavour of the month -- https://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/frances-lee/no-justice-without-love-why-activism-must-be-more-generous

      1. Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 15:33:10 EDT Strypey

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         @asimong ... aaaaaand here's a classic example of the problem that OpenDemocracy.net article is talking about. It would be an absurd exaggeration to say that the level of self-righteous entitlement this articles reeks of is proto-fascist and dangerous - exactly the same kind of absurd exaggeration as literally *everything* in this article. Bullying people is not activism, and being proud of it is despicable
         https://medium.com/@AmberEnderton/wil-wheaton-has-a-listening-problem-accdf6277b88