Danielle NavarroJun 2, 2023

There comes a point where, if you’re a professional who still uses twitter, you need to accept that this is what you’re supporting and your trans friends will no longer be your friends

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/musk-i-will-lobby-to-criminalize

Musk: "I Will Lobby To Criminalize Doctors" Providing Lifesaving Care To Trans Youth

Elon Musk proclaimed that he would lobby to criminalize doctors providing it to trans youth. He then shared Matt Walsh's "What Is A Woman" on the 2nd day of Pride Month.

Erin In The Morning
Show threadDanielle Navarro
I know that people don’t want to hear this. Everyone has their own particular reason Twitter is convenient to them. It’s hard to let that go. But choosing to stay is a still a choice, and it does have consequences. Maybe losing the respect and friendship of trans people in your community isn’t that big a deal to you. I’m not telling anyone what to do. It’s your decision, not mine. Nevertheless I have lost a lot of respect for people who are still there
Jun 2, 2023 at 11:55pmWeb
Show threadDanielle NavarroJun 3, 2023
Special side eye to folks whose reason for staying is that they want to promote their companies products. Just use LinkedIn ffs. That’s literally what it exists for. Choosing to do that on Twitter too when you have so many other options is… well, that’s certainly a statement of values, isn’t it?
Show threadDanielle NavarroJun 3, 2023

Postscript to yesterday's thread, because I am still angry. Please understand that the situation on Twitter is not the same thing as one company having a bad CEO. Your choice to stay is a form of complicity in this behaviour. Sorry, but it is.

https://journa.host/@juddlegum/110481457229706712

Judd Legum (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Elon Musk: 1. Repealed Twitter’s rules protecting trans people from targeted harassment 2. Changed Twitter’s algorithm to promote his own tweets — even to people who don’t follow him 3. Is now using his account to promote anti-trans propaganda

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Show threadBrendan HalpinJun 3, 2023

@djnavarro

All three of the assertions below can be true simultaneously (1 & 2 perhaps especially of online black community &, in a weaker sense, journalists):

"That's where our community/audience is, still; if we want to communicate we have to be there"

"We're used to surviving in spaces controlled by poisonous assholes, Elron is nothing new"

"Being there means you're painting the Nazi's bus"

3 is always true, the others only sometime.

Show threadDanielle NavarroJun 3, 2023
@bthalpin Yeah. I'm sympathetic to the second argument when made by people in the demographic being targeted (in this case it's trans people under direct fire, but the same thing happens to other minorities all the time too). Anyone who uses the first argument as their defence for why they're making data science posts on twitter, on the other hand, can go fuck themselves
Show threadBrendan HalpinJun 3, 2023
@djnavarro Yes. I get depressed when I drop into Twitter and see many of my former mutuals tweeting away as if nothing had changed.
Show threadRichard ShawJun 4, 2023

@bthalpin @djnavarro

The really annoying people are those who were quite happy to accumulate the kudos for pointing out twitter was a dumpster fire. However, after a brief sojourn Mastodon they have gone back to Twitter to collect kudos for ranting about the latest hot topic.

They are entirely heat and light, establish leadership positions for themselves, but when it comes to doing things differently they do nothing. They appear to be one of the drivers of conservatism.

Show threadDanielle NavarroJun 4, 2023
@RichardShaw @bthalpin Yes I reserve a particular deep venom for the "Okay yes Twitter is a wholly owned property of a deranged billionaire who manipulates the feed for his personal gain and is openly advocating for the extermination of my trans friends, but on the other hand someone on Mastodon once asked me to use a content warning so really there's very fine people on both sides and I'm gonna hang out in the Nazi bar for now" crowd
Show threadcbudJun 3, 2023
@djnavarro I liked people I followed on Twitter, including the R data science folks like you and the science articles that would get posted. It got a lot more hostile with extremists since Musk and then him backing DeSantis was just so extra blatant, especially after a few of his toxic posts. It was a shame because I had just made real-world contact with an international Twitter colleague. Quit that platform.