You’d think after all these years and all the harassment I’d know better and actually trying to explain progressive concepts to bad actors, even if they follow you, will not work and you will be punished immediately with dozens of people harassing you.
Maybe one day I’ll learn.
Maybe one day I’ll learn.
This happens literally no matter what. Even if the person you talked to sees your point.
They WILL come after you, ESPECIALLY if you’re a woman.
My personal instinct is to not give up on people and have conversations about missteps but Twitter makes it literally impossible.
They WILL come after you, ESPECIALLY if you’re a woman.
My personal instinct is to not give up on people and have conversations about missteps but Twitter makes it literally impossible.
My only advice these days is this one: block literally every single bad actor even if they follow you because if you don’t and if you try to explain and discuss, you’ll potentially end up raining harassment on yourself and other people.
You get to choose between protecting yourself and other marginalized people or blocking the person who could use the difficult discussion, which is then used as an opportunity by GGers and friends to use your action to radicalize them.
And this is how you feel guilty either way.
And this is how you feel guilty either way.
And you gotta know this: This is by design. Not allowing teaching moments about progressive topics and then using the opportunity to radicalize people and telling them that they never needed the teaching moment in the first place IS one of the strategies.
If this ever happens to you and the same people who go ahead and harass a marginalized person, sending violent and aggressive things to them THEN turn around and come to YOU to reassure you that you did nothing wrong and that you are the victim here: You are being recruited.
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