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It's available on Project Gutenberg. You can read it; it's only twenty-something pages, and a lot of the sections probably aren't relevant to your lives.

Section 11 and 12 are, though.

Take some time to read them. It only takes a few minutes. Thinking about them can soak up so much more of your time, but it's important to know them by sight. Because, well ...

We're all online, y'know? We all know about Discourse. Especially the ways certain types come back every year like a bad fever. Kink at pride is the one on my mind, but there are others.

Look at the discourse. Look at the sabotage manual. Put them next to each other.

They're almost the same, aren't they?


Of course, I'm not saying that discourse is an active attempt at sabotage. That would be silly. I mean, we know that various bad actors run ops on communities they hate (see: 4chan's perennial attempts to include pedophiles in the queer umbrella, the TERFs on Tumblr a decade ago, etc), and that kink at pride discourse is reignited by conservative media whenever they get bored, and that everyone knows how useful wedge issues are when you want to drive a community apart—

I'm not saying that.

Lots of people act in good faith, and just happen to be doing exactly what you'd do if you wanted to paralyze and exhaust a marginalized community that's already struggling to fight against a rising genocide. Respectability politics is a compelling poison, and lots of people are just trying to do the right thing.

They're just doing it in the worst way.


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