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.
@hacks4pancakes even though it looks to be true, adding russia to the argument takes away from it overall.
@Netux it’s… factual… and I track that professionally…
@hacks4pancakes @Netux The supportive facts as reported by the Associated Press of why the boxing governing body chaired by someone friends with Putin is so problematic the IOC is removing boxing in 2028 unless the sport rallies under a different org:
www.msn.com/en-us/sports/other/banned-governing-body-thats-fueling-outcry-on-olympic-boxers-has-russian-ties-and-troubled-history/ar-AA1oaJDU
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@lancercryptid @hacks4pancakes
My criticism isn't about the fact. It's about the optics. Anyone that has any possibility of being moved is likely to disregard once the Russian connection is mentioned because they will always assume that Russia getting blamed makes it fake.
@Netux
@lancercryptid @hacks4pancakes We cannot afford to distort reality for the comfort of will-be fascists