Mastodawn

Mad Villain May 18, 2024

One that I really don't like about the fedi is that there is this underlying need to view bigots as redeemable, to the point where those of us who are not friendly to people who harass us are chastised for not being ‘nice enough’ in the hopes a serial abuser comes around.

The fedi has to accept some people are just hateful pieces of shit, and no amount of kindness will change that. These kinds of people are attracted to unregulated spaces.

It doesn't matter if they are having a bad day. Harassment and abuse under any circumstances is not ok.

And it's not our job to teach bigots how to be decent people by absorbing their cruelty.

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jake lazaroff

@are0h @mekkaokereke strong agree that the onus should not be on people receiving harassment and that we should kick bigots out of our spaces (or better yet prevent them from entering in the first place). but i feel like the idea that “this group of people is irredeemably bad and they are ontologically distinct from good people” is one of the main tools used to place that onus on people being harassed? e.g. “cut him some slack, he didn’t mean it, he’s a good guy — not one of those REAL bigots”