Looking at some conversations relating to the big topic of the week here, I'm seeing a lot of speculation that the reason you don't see this sort of basic simple fact checking on transphobic talking points because the bulk of reporting on trans issues is from reporters who can't be bothered to do enough research to learn the secret truth that trans people don't eat babies and every credible medical organization says we are who we say we are and outright need the medical treatment we seek out.

And that speculation is just wrong on every possibly level.

I'm actually finding it hilariously difficult to watch that thing I've RTed people hyping so much.

If you want to give people a taste to entice you to subscribing to a thing, maybe don't keep that preview gated behind signing into an account where password resets take many days. Here's me, excited for this Content(tm). Willing to give you my valuable Statistical Data. And I in fact have an old account with you, somehow. But you won't let me in, so now I go "hmm... having hit a wall here, is there some other way to watch this?

This is why piracy happens.

Once again I find myself in a position to remind people that it is possible to remind people that a company is working with a notable fascist to produce something without literally linking to the promotional flier for what is being produced. I swear, you don't need visual aids. Case in point is a cosmetics company that does media tie in makeup kids doing one with the monsterous former children's book author. If you were a fan, you probably caught that, if you routinely buy similar things, you can now easily enough research who to maybe boycot. Here I am

So I have 3 quick important points to bring up at this point we are currently at in the still ongoing process of getting KF wiped off the internet:

#1- Hell of a lot of people who are 100% certainty part of the problem are presently going mask off to whine about it. I want to be crystal clear that there are absolutely ZERO reasons for any person on the planet to react to that site going away with anything other than joy. If someone is saying it's some sort dangerous precedent about free speech or whatever, that is a lie. That is in particular, a lie that

It's impressive how quickly this ball is rolling now that it's clearly downhill. For instance, this was 5 hours ago...

https://twitter.com/remembrancermx/status/1567219894479110145

4 hours ago...

https://twitter.com/remembrancermx/status/1567237079998017536

Years later it still blows my mind that someone seriously wrote a childrens book in which an idealistic child sets out to end chattel slavery and this exists only as a setup to make fun of her naive childish idealism as a running subplot that ultimately accomplishes nothing. Like everyone in the world read that book, and then everyone in the world just kinda head-canoned that no no obviously that campaign was successful and slavery was ended.

But for real, you go read the actual books, and at the end, slavery is alive and well. The story ends with

Please take a moment to look at the replies to this.

As for myself, I know I've gotten into some of this in the past, but now that it's safer to talk about than it's ever been, let's recap. First though let me just toss out a disclaimer that there are some blurry lines here, and

https://twitter.com/quatoria/status/1566804198297112579

particularly since this goes back to around when that site was first forming, or at least rebranding from its former name and focus. It is entirely possible that this all technically began with a different group of stalkers only partially overlapping with the founders of KF, and

To expand on that last RT, there are two very serious flaws with the reasoning of the person being quoted.

First, in reading the rest of that thread, there are a number of seriously mistaken assumptions that need addressing.

The full thread suggests that the sort of people who post to KF in particular operate on a belief that "bad attention is still attention," which could not be further from the truth. There ARE plenty of terrible people who do operate on that principle. Teenagers who crave attention of any sort and don't have the moral grounding to

So I know I've been over this, but like, as a people, we've done a really terrible job, at least over my lifetime, of teaching kids how to actually recognize evil when they see it.

Like we all agree that nazis are evil but surprisingly few people can properly explain in what way

https://twitter.com/sudowood0/status/1560053613304508417

we generally hammer on about the holocaust, and I mean, rightly so, but we do that with such tunnel vision that unless people actually see a mass grave with millions of people in it, and for that matter, those people are Jews specifically, no amount of acting like a nazi is going

So... I realize in this particular case this is mainly being done by bigots willing to be a bit more open about it than she is, but the particularly bonkers attack vector that prompted this post is one that Rowling really loves to run with and it needs a name. Bigotry Trade-In?

https://twitter.com/Bronwen85/status/1558931890350047232

The basic idea goes something like this:

You, a horrible bigot, would very much like for everyone in the world to rise up and murder a minority (in Rowling's case, trans people).

Problem is, you've kinda been too cartoonishly evil about it, and the population at large has kinda

So this is going to be a bit of a disorganized rant here, otherwise I'd probably make it into an article.

I've been doing a lot of thinking about, you know, the general state of things, and very broadly now would be a very good time to just kinda hand all the reins of power to the closest available trans woman for a bit.

I remember when the pandemic first started, a whole bunch of people really were not at all handling it well at all, getting all freaked out and panicky, and how I was talking a lot with some other trans women I know about how much we

I mean I SUPPOSE it's true that most people's parents get all the outrage out when you go "so this is heavy but I'm actually a girl" and don't have any left for "and now I'm dating this other girl." But they might have a bit left in the tank when you explain that she's trans too.

https://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/1552138247865716736

See the scenario I'm describing there actually happens all the time, but for real, what in the entire fuck is the scenario the bigot in this video is even trying to suggest is happening here? Like I can put the pieces together but I can't get to "well yes, this happens, clearly."

One problem with dealing with disingenuous cultists is that they will tell the same lie thousands of times, and people will only point out that it's a lie a handful of times.

In the spirit of that, have a little refresher on that Power Word: Woman idea bigots never shut up about Literally every day I see bigots shouting about how "with these crazy new laws the trans lobby has in place, a man can just shout that he's a woman and instantly gets all the powers of a woman!" and no part of that is remotely true.

- First off women do not in fact have any sort

I can't really put into words what it is like every time I see bigots try to trot this particular guy out as "an expert who agrees with them." It is so wrong, both on a factual level, and on a moral level, that I feel like when I try to explain who he is to people there is some

https://twitter.com/ZJemptv/status/1551810620378554373

kind of underflow error in their brains, or they are so repulsed at the thought of who this guy is that the only way they can process anyone platforming him in this way is stubbornly deny it and rationalize all evidence to the contrary as some sort of smear campaign against him.

So I noticed yesterday a higher than average incidence of quoted tweets from people I have never had any sort of interaction with, or only sporatic, totally friendly mentions, and also that my patreon recently dipped to the tune of several hundred dollars over a single month. So here comes that old familiar anxiety of "huh, is there some new campaign going where some random weirdo I've never interacted with in any way is running an intense harassment campaign against me out of the blue, or are these just aftershocks from one of the other times?"

Kind of hilarious looking at the comments on here. Bunch of bigots trying real hard to thread that needle of defending a hatemonger without just making fun of her terrible worldbuilding effort and just failing completely on both fronts.

Anyway good for people who enjoy quadball.

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1549537332927283203

Look at this one:

https://twitter.com/SherwoodBlunt3/status/1549540349713862656

- Practically falling over himself to call anyone who plays it a nerd/stuff them in a locker for actually reading his leader's book when they're trying not to be associated with it.

- Calling a sport The Enemy likes "an imaginary game."

This is in a very different gear, but I wound up playing a bit of FF14 today, and there's this feature I really hate where if the stars are aligned or whatever you're automatically dropped into the global "new player" chat. Which is of course as gross and toxic as that game gets. So anyway this one sad little edgelord says something in there about "all the girls playing this game are probably really dudes" and like, holy crap read the room you little idiot. When like 9 out of 10 PCs are catgirls with lore friendly names, you've gotta assume that any guys

I have been on the fence about writing a thread on this for a good while now, but I keep seeing more and more people talking about This Sort Of Thing becoming a serious problem again, and there is a HUGE wave of anti-trans propaganda cresting in a broad general sense, so, "2014:" Technically what I'm going to get into largely happened over like a 3 or 4 year stretch but when you see trans people who've had the misfortune of being on this site that long "2014" is generally the shorthand people are going to use to talk about this without getting in too deep

Hi, extremism researcher here. The "dark subcultures" being referred to here are quite plainly neo-nazi recruitment sites. Here is an article I wrote over five years ago going into detail about that pipeline. whitehatmag.com/editions/2017-…

I'm available to clarify further if you like.

https://twitter.com/NPR/status/1544819801767419905

That's not me being a little bit glib, either. From NPR: "The aesthetic has tied together a web of different digital subcultures which are deeply nihilistic, which use dehumanizing language, and which glorify violence. Often originating on the website 4chan, they include fan ..."

Ended up glancing at some people discussing the whole New York Times transphobic piece of the day/associated fallout, and something I'm surprised to see a lot of people saying stuff like:

"I totally support trans people but I AM worried about losing the word woman!"

Sorry WHAT? And like, I'm seeing this from accounts that don't immediately fail a quick nazi burner check. So either I need to spend more time being thorough with those, or WOW do people in general need to work on their basic critical thinking skills.

How does that read as a legit concern?

Any time I find myself sharing a lot of stuff about genocidal transphobia I'm always worried that I'm spending too much time on the one subject.

And then I get into a situation like earlier where someone just posted a screenshot from the guy with the initials BS a bit ago and I had to go dig through his feed to find the actual link (because I always like to make it easier to report hate speech if I have to be sharing it and all) and the guy's ENTIRE FEED is LITERALLY just him RTing every single person he can find today whining about how Twitter's TOS