Lesley Carhart Aug 4, 2024
I’m honestly shaken at the number of infosec people, particularly women, who are endorsing and spouting Russian transphobic misinformation about Olympic athletes with added hateful TERF rhetoric. In public, right in front of queer and trans peers. Some I used to consider friends. We all see all of it. It’s absolute hell for trans community members. We need to be calling this crap out for what it is.
Show threadAltytwo Altryness, BS Aug 4, 2024
@hacks4pancakes wtaf? Like, yeah I knew a chunk of our field were sacks of shit but that one still surprised me. =\
Show threadLesley Carhart Aug 4, 2024
@whereisthespai second major woman influencer in two days.
Show threadLesley Carhart Aug 4, 2024
@whereisthespai IDK friend. There are a lot of TERFs who just don’t understand how anti women the propaganda is. They’ll support gay people to some extent but then get very cagey in any statement that says women aren’t lesser than men.
Show threadAltytwo Altryness, BS 
@hacks4pancakes it’s like they’ve got no functional grasp of how close everyone is to the outside edge when you make an outgroup. Like they can’t look at someone else and see themselves reflected. If moving incorrectly can cause injury, then this almost has to be a mental/emotional equivalent where they’ve given themselves brain damage because I can’t imagine these attitudes actually being naturally-occurring in a bunch of gregarious apes like us. =\
Aug 4, 2024 at 3:55amWeb
Show threadDave Wilburn Aug 4, 2024

@whereisthespai @hacks4pancakes

Leopards, faces, etc. etc.

But yeah, the ultimate destination here is that very few people in society could ever meet fascism's standards for genetics, appearance, behavior, ideological purity, etc. That's the point. It gives them a ready made excuse for persecuting literally anyone they desire.

They're constantly fed propaganda that they are the in-group, but with just enough hints that they're potentially in the out-group to leave them insecure. And the only way to maintain social credit to stay in the in-group is to keep repeating the bullshit talking points and throw as many of the out-group into the woodchipper as they can.

Show threadDave Wilburn Aug 4, 2024

@whereisthespai @hacks4pancakes

Anyway, a fun thing to read about is the "Association of German National Jews" and a guy named Max Naumann. They thought they could save themselves from the Nazis if only they could prove their patriotism and loyalty through overt fanaticism. You'll be shocked to hear this, but it did not end well for them.