Reasons to be cheerful Part II.
I am well aware that Twitter is not ‘real life’ but a social media platform that seems to encourage the worst in humanity in terms of abnegation of critical thought and knee jerk reactions to insult and abuse. But it’s still interesting.
I am well aware that Twitter is not ‘real life’ but a social media platform that seems to encourage the worst in humanity in terms of abnegation of critical thought and knee jerk reactions to insult and abuse. But it’s still interesting.
https://twitter.com/SVPhillimore/status/1448194248302542850
In my decade on this platform this has been my most popular tweet ever. The response to it, at a rough estimate were 80:20 in favour. Even more interesting, the nature and extent of the abuse was fairly mild. I was mostly stupid or needed to relax.
I only had to block one person who kept insisting I ‘hated’ little boys in dresses. This was a deliberately dishonest statement. Of course this lack of abuse could simply be because over the years I have blocked the worst offenders. But could it be that the tide is turning?
Two very interesting things also happened yesterday - the Nolan report on Stonewall was out on Sounds and @BluskyeAllison was given permission to pursue her Employment Tribunal claim against Stonewall on the basis of direct discrimination.
The landscape from 2018, when I joined this debate, has shifted utterly and I hope irrevocably back to sanity. It shows the power of dedicated campaigning and refusal to back down in the face of threats. It’s been a real education.
And of course I should not forget #DaveChappelle who is now Team Terf . Whether Netflix pulls his special or not, he won’t care - he can’t be cancelled. And he shone a necessary light on the privilege of a movement that seeks to impose its identity on others.
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