The users of Bluesky, a platform that promotes itself as X/Twitter but without hate speech, have been having a meltdown for the last few days over the presence of Jesse Singal on the site. He is literally the most blocked user on the whole site. The current state of affairs is that they no longer post violent fantasies of killing him, after the moderation team indicated that they don't see a violation of terms and services in his account activity, they graduated into violent fantasies of killing him coupled with his home address attached. There's also a change.org petition for banning him, and I believe there are videos of prominent activists filming themselves signing it.
Jesse, for those of you who don't know, is a cohost of the Blocked And Reported podcast dedicated to internet drama, probably most relevant to users here as the place where Tracing Woodgrains had a brief stint. Jesse is not unlike JK Rowling in the eyes of the activists, in that he's 99% onboard with the left agenda, but has some doubts about some details of transgenderism. Even less doubts than her, in that his opinions is that some children are definitely trans, but some others will come to regret medical interventions, so caution should be exercised. And that's enough to label him as a heretical transphobe for the Bluesky users.
What was the trifecta for an effortful enough comment, event, context, personal opinion? Well, for the personal opinion, I always thought that the idea of heretics as more reviled than heathens was somewhat self-indulgent, but I'm starting to believe that idea.
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The users of Bluesky, a platform that promotes itself as X/Twitter but without hate speech, have been having a meltdown for the last few days over the presence of Jesse Singal on the site. He is literally the most blocked user on the whole site. The current state of affairs is that they no longer post violent fantasies of killing him, after the moderation team indicated that they don't see a violation of terms and services in his account activity, they graduated into violent fantasies of killing him coupled with his home address attached. There's also a change.org petition for banning him, and I believe there are videos of prominent activists filming themselves signing it.
Jesse, for those of you who don't know, is a cohost of the Blocked And Reported podcast dedicated to internet drama, probably most relevant to users here as the place where Tracing Woodgrains had a brief stint. Jesse is not unlike JK Rowling in the eyes of the activists, in that he's 99% onboard with the left agenda, but has some doubts about some details of transgenderism. Even less doubts than her, in that his opinions is that some children are definitely trans, but some others will come to regret medical interventions, so caution should be exercised. And that's enough to label him as a heretical transphobe for the Bluesky users.
What was the trifecta for an effortful enough comment, event, context, personal opinion? Well, for the personal opinion, I always thought that the idea of heretics as more reviled than heathens was somewhat self-indulgent, but I'm starting to believe that idea.
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