If PugJesus could look in a mirror, heād be very upset!
Iāll put the text I put under this same post months ago because I think it still applies:
I donāt think [theyāre] a transphobe, but I also donāt think they understand the scale of the harassment trans people face on a daily basis. Like itās so bad the users would rather just have potential trolls ignored and downvoted than to see well meaning cis people come in and do vigilante justice using the same tactics of abuse trans people go through every day.
That empathetic disconnect looks like transphobia to some users. I donāt know that the users are right, but I understand how you reached that conclusion, especially with [their]
days-long[now months-long] soapbox crashout about how despotic Ada is.Transphobia doesnāt have to be intentional to still be transphobia. It also doesnāt have to be intentional to hurt someone or cause harm indirectly. The fact that people think gatekeeping gender is okay or that xenogenders are āhurting real trans peopleā is already harmful in and of itself.
Pug and his associates were told this but they didnāt take the hint or look at themselves. They just decided that trans and queer people in the current day are too sensitive. And they kept going. So we really shouldnāt excuse them or say they werenāt being transphobic, they were. Whether or not they meant it going in.
Itās like if someone claimed to be an ally to those hurt by racism, said that āWell I donāt understand the idea of Chicanos and I donāt really see why I should respect them when one was rude to someone else months ago.ā
And then other people go "Hey white dude, youāre showing your blind spots. You can do better.*
And then the white dude just goes āWhy should I have to improve? Iām an anti-racist!ā
PugJesus is a cis male who thinks because he uses she/her on a trans woman heās an ally. Heās not when heāll gladly toss aside things because someone was rude to someone else online.
Exactly. A person like that isnāt a real ally even if they call themselves one. They need to actually support people to be an ally, and that also means checking yourself when people call you out, not just saying that youāre an ally and donāt need to check yourself.
PugJesus was never an Ally honestly and the fact that him and his asshole friends decided to open up whining threads on !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com instead of checking themselves just goes to show that.
Exactly.
You can be declare yourself to be an ally, or anti-ābad thingā. The people of those groups decide, not you.
āIām a stamp collector, I just own zero stamps, I donāt listen to anyone who says I should collect stamps, and I say everyone who calls me a false stamp collector is actually hurting the stamp collecting community.ā
Check the mod and post history of everyone saying Blahaj is a dictatorship or is supporting attack helicopter shit. Every one gatekeeps or says horrid shit.
Meanwhile Iāve never been called transphobic. Or racist. Or sexist. Because I donāt go āIām actually Iām a true ally you stupid idiot, listen to the guy who isnāt part of your group and obey my orders or youāre the true bigot!ā
Yeah most of them have atrocious moderation history and equally nasty comment history.
Like certain members who claim blahaj is a dictatorship where you canāt descent.
Iām not upset! Iām not owned! I just make posts about it for days and talk about how much I am bothered them!! Youāre the real ones who getting upset!
- PugJesus for the last few weeks now
Weeks? You donāt need to be generous
Heās still raging at me, Iāve given him plenty of times to drop it and heās still mad. I donāt think heās even aware of the block button at this point. Iām enjoying this personally, seeing someone dig their own grave several times over.
i went through their comment history bc they obsessive, and holy shit. mf has posted 24 comments about blahaj in JUST the past 14 hours.
And he claims heās not obsessed or angry about being banned from a website that he claims to ignore.
Dude is malding about this more than anyone else.
People mad about it inherently do not understand the point of federation if they want all instances to basically be .world, except with different mods.
They want the subtle bigotry of liberalism without punishment of their statements and actions.
