 The pattern of "you made an error, therefore we need to dig through all of your history on multiple platforms to prove that you are not one of us" is one of the most disturbing and destructive things I've seen on social media. It also _definitely_ exists on Mastodon. I've seen it now multiple times. But sure, tell me all about how bad quote tweets are. 8 comments
We as communities need to work on unlearning our sense of #PunitiveJustice. We do not need people to be punished —just in general—and any time I see someone say that someone needs to be "held accountable" I have to ask: What exactly do you mean by that? Say it in so many words. "We need to move past being cops in our own communities" toad cried, while trying to punish another transfeminine person for being imperfect. @hrefna @JessTheUnstill Bizarre. Almost like there's something societal tied into that. But that couldn't be. Must just be individual failings or propensity or somesuch. /s @hrefna This is why I had my tweets set up for auto-deletion, and why I auto-delete here. My views have changed tremendously in the last 20 years. @hrefna I’ve had more than one friend who was hounded off of public social media because of harassment+ campaigns that were started by the tropical fruit ranchers, if you’re familiar, and I’ve been feeling this acutely. And yes, they were trans people.  @hrefna of course the behavior has nothing to do with one social media app vs another. Saw a post today that derided somebody who couldn’t be any nicer if he tried as “xyz-lover” (where xyz=something objectionable). What is this all coming to? What happened to empathy, and gentleness? |
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On the one hand we do need to be able to talk about the legitimately bad behavior, especially for those with large followings. We do need to be able to talk about how something that a person or group did is harmful to us.
On the other, people demand "accountability" with no clarity on what that looks like other than "let's harass this person off of the platform using hyperbole, context collapse, and dubious information from nazis as our tools."
With no scale or scope for what they actually did