Trying to hunt this down on short notice has me stress-vomiting from looking at all the other far right interviews where he's talking about having me SWATed where he doesn't specifically mention my twitter handle, so if anyone else wants to play detective I'd REALLY appreciate it
Could someone please help me out with this? Or barring that do something to help me mentally decontaminate from immersing myself in this profound abuse?
Thank you again to everyone who helped me get through writing that. I honestly had no idea just how very many far-right podcasts that disgusting pervert had gone on to specifically spread disgusting lies about my appearance. I'm going to go throw up and take a long shower now.
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You know what, let's sit here a moment and talk about the harassment I receive on a daily basis as a trans woman. This isn't about broad trends, this is focused on me, and I want everyone who sees it to retweet this whole thread far and wide.
I have a policy to never post or let
others post photographs or videos of me on the internet. This is a policy I have in place because since mid-2014, I have had neo-nazis constantly plotting to murder me, and not knowing what I actually look like, or where I live, makes for a pretty sizable barrier to their efforts
Being frustrated by this, and the various other ways that I really am entirely too boring to make for an engaging stalking target, several of these nazis set up a website they make up all kinds of ridiculous nonsense about me, and fill it with "photos they've collected" which are
The other thing about it is, if anyone actually really wanted to work towards such a thing, the actual projects they'd work on would have other benefits. Hey, let's "terraform" the Sahara desert, get plants growing there, rework the whole climate!
human-rights hating billionaires reinventing the wheel on the aspects of such a project we DO have covered (building ships that can travel really far) which further tips the hand that was already about to fall on the table that what they really want out of the whole thing is to
own a remote settlement far enough removed from civilization for human rights advocates not to be able to do anything about enslaving the locals by totally controlling the supply of things they need to remain alive.
Which aside form being monstrously evil seems pretty plainly
I live basically every moment of every day in a state of constant fear.
Several years ago I came out as trans. Later that week, fascists of various stripes started to stalk and harass me. As happens.
Some months into dealing with that,
which to be clear has at no point stopped or really lowered in intensity (although my filtering has gotten pretty great), several people who a general public consensus seem to deem "good people" began to stalk and harass me in the same way as those fascists, coordinating attacks
even, using shared harassment resources.
I remain unsure exactly why that suddenly happened. The best theory I have been able to put together is that one "good person" put a spotlight on another "good person" over some disagreement which caused their respective volatile social
Looking at my feed today, I see this website has decided to administer a pop quiz today about mass harassment campaigns, and about half the people on my short feed here did not get a passing grade.
I'm just going to try and break this down a little real quick with a minimum of
sermonizing here.
First, our target to be stepped into the spotlight by posting a big long anecdote about starving his child for 6 hours because of some misguided ideas about ingenuity or resourcefulness or whatever.
The population at large correctly identified this as Not OK,
and began to react through the expected combination of explaining to this guy how that was wrong, giving broad public sermons to their own followers on how this is wrong, and outright aggression towards this guy, both to his face and again just generally shouted into the void.
So... this is kind of a grim thing to bring up, but I really don't think any of the cis people following me right now realize just how absolutely terrified out of our damn minds every trans person is right now.
The recent U.S. election seems to have done a pretty good job of
giving fascists a bit of a black eye in the specific arena of having nazis in elected office and having the media in general kissing feet, singing praises, and boosting general propaganda, and a whole lot of people seem to be treating that like THE win not A win and packing it in
while there's still quite a few other fronts where we are still fighting the nazis, and where that fight is going REALLY bad.
Like, remember before the election where there were nazis in the streets backed up by cops just indiscriminately committing acts of shocking violence?
This is a situation that's really been weighing on me and I legitimately don't know what to do, so, put yourself in my shoes here a moment?
There's a person you kinda know. Seems cool. You have pretty similar goals. You promote each other. You've met a couple times face to face.
One day as part of a weird chain of circumstances, this person mixes up who they're talking to, and thinking they're talking to some rando, misgenders you, says a rumor a weird new hate group on the block is trying to spread that you're some kind of terrorist pedophile ringleader
is plausible and adds a bit about "having heard a lot of other things about them." You are, incidentally, a trans woman in this scenario, and this person knows damn well what your pronouns are.
So first obviously, you are going to remove this person from the "trustworthy friend"