It’s not, like, a hill I want to die on, but sending anon hate really seems quite pointless, even if it’s in a situation where...
It’s not, like, a hill I want to die on, but sending anon hate really seems quite pointless, even if it’s in a situation where the person is a dick or whatever
Seems like most left/left-adjacent circles have internalized the idea that it’s bad to misgender someone even if they’re an asshole but it’s still cool to suicide bait them or send death threats
Like, obviously people still DO it. But are there really people who go on the record defending it still?
back in the mid-2000s on like, Matt Yglesias’ blog, when direct backchannel hate from strangers still came as e-mail, I noticed that both halves of “I will hurt or kill you//because you are actively being a wrongful thing” were distinctly right-marked
while stuff came from the left as supercilious death requests – “you should kill yourself//as you are pathetically worthless, having failed to be right”