it's funny how often i'm the ~radical youth~ when interacting with older liberal ppl at work cuz they make a disparaging remark about someone or some group and i say

"Well... I wouldn't go so far as to say that. I don't see how they're hurting anybody. It seems to me like it would be better to support them"

Like, the big radical notion that we should be nice to people

Wil Wheton put my friend, an impoverished trans woman who survives off her art and donations, on a massive communal block list because she once tweeted "shut up Wesley" at him which is a line from a show he starred in. So now she's suddenly blocked by tons of people and lumped in with the likes of Sargon of Akkad, threatening her livelihood.

This is why I don't trust unvetted mass excommunication.

@darius holy shit i'm realizing that for every bot you make you need a unique email to register the account

do you just use a thousand gruerillamail accounts? or did you do the thing where any string of letters @tinysubversions.com becomes a temp email that forwards to your main?

Basically what I'm saying is it's nobody's responsibility or duty to reach across the aisle and you can block any instance you want.

but I would appreciate not being made to be afraid to talk to people on some of those instances. Block them but please don't block anyone who talks to them. You can ignore me but I'd just appreciate the good faith for those of us who do want to reach across the aisle

But maybe I mostly feel this way because I grew up in a cult founded by libertarians. even though I wasn't a libertarian, if you asked me five years ago what I thought about Betsy DeVos defunding public schools I'd have been ecstatic and very in favor. It took three years after leaving that place to really actually be in favor of public schools. If *everyone* pro-public schools never spoke to me, hid me from view, I'd have remained steadfast opposed to public schools.