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May 30 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Just had a thought... perhaps the biggest reason that #DeppVsHeard may chill abuse survivors from coming forward is that the media ran SO VERY MANY pieces suggesting that it should chill abuse survivors from coming forward. That they will not be believed.
Good job, media.
The TRUTH is that celebrity cases are totally different from those of regular people, conviction rates for criminal abuse charges are already extremely low, and a CRIMINAL trial is a reasonable doubt standard. Why is no one talking about RESTORATIVE JUSTICE here?
It's so strange that the media narrative is about exposure and punishment instead of healing. Why is the message not "please talk to someone to get support about what happened to you"? Instead it's "No matter what you do it will never be enough unless (insert trial outcome)"
Even if your abuser goes to jail, the memories don't go away. The trauma doesn't miraculously get better. It isn't a magic healing spell. The process for support and healing is the same no matter what courts decide, so can someone with a sizeable platform PLEASE focus on that?!

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May 28
Every journalist who has gaslighted Johnny Depp stans by saying they're bots or trolls has contributed to a cycle of abuse. Perhaps not intentionally, but there are real people that are trying to recover from trauma who now feel spat on all over again. Not factual. Not okay.
The media NEVER LEARNS with these online phenomena. Troll farms inflame all sides of these dust ups because they want to make Western democracy look stupid. And the media plays into their hands again and again because, ironically, commentary writers get freaked out by nuance.
The truly awful thing is that the media is still a hotbed of abusive behavior. People I have personally witnessed being abusive say "the right things" and fly the flag and go right back to being abusive. But does media EVER humble despite it BEING PART OF THE PROBLEM? No.
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Apr 16, 2021
This is going to get me nothing but grief but... This Lindsay Ellis thing? TOTALLY LOST THE PLOT. It was not about her to begin with. It was the views that came out of her. We in North America have to collectively become less stupid about media that doesn't originate here. THREAD
(See also, indigenous media) Lindsay Ellis said something stupid, that showed an ignorance of subject. To treat Avatar TLA - as some founding work of a genre linked to Asian animation... it's a chance for other people to learn WHY THAT IDEA US DUMB. BUT IT'S NO LONGER ABOUT THAT
It's about a PERSON now, instead of the shitty comments that came out of that person. And that's the problem with social media. People get attacked and the principles get lost. People still don't get why the Raya/Avatar comments were dummmmmmb as shit.
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Oct 30, 2020
Oh sweet Baby Yoda. Though this is a decent summary of something that got exceedingly & ridiculously out of control.

If you want your meaning of a term to stand, provide it. Don't make someone look it up then dogpile when you don't like what they find.
boundingintocomics.com/2020/10/29/you…
Btw, I have been open for some time about not having much connection to any gender identity. So claims that I just manufactured that as a convenience are false. It was actually quite a surprise to me that some people feel so strongly connected to that element of themselves.
I've stated numerous times publicly over the years that when I was growing up, the characters I saw myself in were characters like Lion-O from Thundercats and Beast from X-Men. I didn't really connect to "girl characters". I fell into "gender is a social construct" thinking.
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Oct 29, 2020
There's also this really bad theory out there that a term isn't discriminatory if it's "true" sometimes. Lots of terms have dual meanings depending on how they're applied. The issue is when your label for a person assumes negatives not in evidence.
Take the word "bitch". Imagine if anyone could say "It's not sexist to say you're a bitch because you need to smile more. It's just true. " I had a guy once call me a "fish" to my face. He said it was okay because he's gay and just finds women disgusting. Obviously it's not.
Similarly, some people have a brother named Tom. He's "Uncle Tom" to their kids. But clearly this term has another meaning.
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Oct 13, 2020
Here's the problem with politics right now... political systems are set up with the understanding that politicians will listen to the people, and not do things that are unethical or unpopular because they'll be voted out of office. Of course, that's not happening. (more)
There's consensus on certain issues that politicians ignore, and I don't think it's about money. I think it's also because they think voters are stupid and don't actually know what's good for them. It's about power corrupting, knowing that pols can work the ref through the media
Politicians know that there are multiple truths in America right now: Fox News - which is a populist fever dream totally divorced from economic conservativism, MSNBC - a mishmash of financial experts, old school newsies, and AOC fan club, and CNN - A cacophony of clickbait
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Oct 11, 2020
Whether CDPR is crunching its staff is a good fight to have. It's a refreshing change from whether someone is an "SJW" or "Nazi" over a clearly labeled opinion piece. (By "crunch" I mean overworking them to the point of mental or physical illness)
I saw a distinct difference in feedback compared to when people get triggered by identitarian ideology. People who got mad at me provided facts to support their positions, instead of just name calling or resorting to conspiracy theories.
Not all fights are the same. This is not about a theme in a game. This is about workplace conditions. I think we can agree that companies still need to do better AND reward a company like CDPR who, for a change, actually seems to give a shit here.
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