Spammy Snarker L.J.Love how the pests who are trying to make the FediBlock tag useless by swarming it are, in fact, proving how useful it is for finding and blocking assholes.
Tfw they think they're proving a point about a hashtag but they're really proving a point about themselves
The hashtag pests' claim that they're doing this because the FediBlock tag facilitates abuse of queer people is belied by the fact that they're not trying to improve the use of the tag or presenting any alternatives, simply trying--and failing--to wreck even the imperfect tools we have for community safety.
This is not the behavior of people who care about queer people's safety.
It's the behavior of people who hate the existence of community tools, and really of any community that allows Black, Indigenous, and yes, queer people to set community standards that might challenge their dominance or even inconvenience them the tiniest bit with an inkling of self-awareness.
And they can keep whining about that all they like, but that's all they're good for because it's what they've chosen--whining and trying to make a nuisance of themselves, and not doing a good job of even that. They're just kind of pathetic and embarrassing, really.
Also never, ever trust anyone who presents BIPOC as threats to queer and neurodivergent people's safety. The moment they start setting up BIPOC as oppressive agents of the status quo and erasing the existence of queer and ND people of color, you know they just mean whiteness when they say queer and ND.
Pamela Ehn@ljwrites there is a small segment of autistic people, mostly white males, that identify with Sheldon Cooper. While Sheldon Cooper is a gross stereotype of autistic people, I don’t think the character is racist. However, those who identify with him unfailingly are. They are also gatekeepers who insist that only those with official diagnoses are autistic (i.e., white and male like them) and are often Aspie supremacists.
HalIt's also such a bizarre hill to die on since the queer people they are defending often got the notice for being extremely fucking racist.
There is the valid criticism that some of reports can't be taken at face value. But that's always been the case.
Reality still is People are peeing in the pool and calling it solidarity.
@zzz yeah same old same old with white people using marginalized identities to evade accountability 😑 there are definitely improvements to be made but much of it consists of blocking untrustworthy actors--like the hashtag pests are proving themselves to be.
Alex von Kitchen@ljwrites we have also used it to find instances who are not safe for queer people
@Dangerous_beans exactly! The way POC are immediately cast as antithetical and threatening to queer and ND people is 
in the extreme.
in the extreme.