If none of this applies to you, great. If it sticks in your craw be you see some of your behaviors in it, maybe sit w/that before yelling at others about things you didn't really care about until they made you feel personally threatened to an extent far less than most of the folks you're yelling at.
And yes, this is in response to all the barely-veiled sexist and racist comments you’re throwing at the author of this piece, which is honestly far more lucid and well-reasoned than most of y’all’s (not all, but most) reasons for yelling at people to leave: www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...
“Here’s a helpful thought experiment: Imagine if Musk banned every prominent liberal and left commentator from Twitter — if he kicked off Ezra Klein and Jamelle Bouie and Mehdi Hasan. Would we view this as beneficial or harmful?” —@jerusalem.bsky.social www.theargumentmag.com/p/we-have-to...
I shouldn’t even have to point out how many people excoriating the person above for this take re: twitter/x REGULARLY engage with and share substack posts without seeing anything wrong with that🥴
I am no longer a very active poster on x, & have a private account. I am also clear about the fact that the reason I did this is because the calculus of danger (to me) for posting there became too high, not because I’m suddenly too morally pure for that always-flawed, always-harmful-to-many site.
I keep an account there primarily to engage with & learn from disability activists & peers who are not as active or visible here. And I think it’s honestly telling & important that more folks here don’t understand or care how lacking this site is in that regard or how bsky’s design choices led here.
You want 'foreign affairs,' you keep a toe in that pool. Bluesky and Threads are notably US-centric, so 'summit' coverage was *not* as good.
Thank you! 🙏 I was just about to make that point in a comment to one of your previous posts in the thread, but decided to read on and here you are making it.
Great thread, Mar. Thank you for this. I miss nesvoid parts of old site; where disabled built community of support. Sad how it was ruined by these actions & shitty people. Some couldn't start over on new platforms & gave up, or have died. This thread feels like you gave them a voice. 🕯