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in reply to @adorablesergal's post:
It's fucking always trans people too with these things. Like every time, even the ones that started explicitly to block transphobes. The very last one of these I ever touched, well after I abandoned blocklists for a bad idea, was a supposed "TERF" list that tried to use their leverage to blackmail a trans woman for pointing out biphobia.
It's intensely uncomfortable seeing some Bad Space defenders minimise the danger trans people are experiencing right now as unfounded imaginary Nazi paranoia, and that calling out being a target of this list for transphobic reasons as being reactionary, or washing away the racism that BIPoC experience.
"None of us are free until all of us are free," but only for the people we like, I guess. I'm not all that happy with the ease many left-leaning people think that trans erasure is a valid concession in the pursuit of social justice.
It is exhausting to exist sometimes. It feels like we're always the weird exception people can just chuck in the bin. Even the supposed "allies" will twist their own brains in knots trying to hold onto their transphobia while simultaneously claiming to "support" us.
This is the kind of thing that makes me thankful this platform has no (obvious) character limit.
Echoes of this sentiment have been stirring in the more level-headed parts of the fedi, but mostly it's just been one giant game of telephone like everything else there.
There are definitely positives to the microblog format, but it's hard to deny it makes nuanced explanations a lot more difficult to pull off, and it increases out-of-context maligning.
Even my post above is still an extremely superficial "tip-of-the-iceberg" treatment of issues of intersectionality. I frequently tell people that these concepts are a college-level course because they really are, and it sucks immensely that it really does take sitting down and poring through this material for months on end along with speaking to marginalised groups directly to get even a basic grasp of all the nuances that are just going to be ignored anyway by someone who believes Jewish space lasers are a thing.
YEP. And from everything I've seen that's exactly how Ro's getting anyone from white-leftist-queer fedi on his side. It's harder to refute "Everyone who disagrees with me is a racist" when the egregious racists are constantly treating him (and Black fedi in general) like shit and flattening that nuance out.
The "trans is a strictly white phenomenon" echoes heard in the defence of this list has to sound absolutely wonderful to trans PoC. The biggest losers in all of this are trans BIPoC, and that makes me absolutely furious.
I've watched these people, including Ro, yell at, ignore or just block black people, including black trans women, who disagree with TBS. Or worse, whitewash them.
And I've spoken privately to multiple other trans POC who are literally afraid to publicly speak out against it because Ro will attack the shit out of them if they do. And from what I've seen of his posts, they're not wrong.
So they get to construct a narrative that trans POC are all behind Ro and TBS, because they've either blocked or scared off or whitewashed all of the ones that aren't.
as an instance admin? yeah.
our instance happens to have some staying power due to having a decent amount of Staff with Cred; Iโm convinced this is the only reason why we havenโt been put on blast
but my friend who runs a small instance for friends? ahahahaha
yeah, that criticism is staying in discord.
I'm currently conducting some Fedi research. We were all watching with horror in the lab live as posts were rolling in. We were like, "Hey, it's exactly the thing we were hypothetically worried might happen!"
And yeah reading some of those posts as a trans PoC has been a wild ride 
I love being intersectional
Thank you for the work that you and others are doing on this. I'm truly sorry, that you and others have to gaze into the gaping maw of this thing. I hope you're still able to find a way to step back and recharge. :(
"To Become The Oppressor
I'll just straight-up say that blocklists are cop-thought. It's state-thought. It's the idea of gathering up all the "undesirables" and making them magically disappear, but in digital form."
This is a really apt descriptor.