I cannot find comfort in being right when lives are at stake. Imagine being right about suffering and harm. You want to be wrong
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BUT and this is where I am not going to make friends: there is another aspect that is in the Buzzfeed papers: white feminist complicity
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white feminist complicity from yesterday: Jeff Sessions Just Reversed A Policy That Protects Transgender Workers From Discriminationpic.twitter.com/hSMLO98EQw
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This is what white feminism through TERF validation helped normalizedpic.twitter.com/dPw2KTH0xF
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So while Buzzfeed papers are valuable, they only tell half of the story. They don't tell about silent complicity and advocating exclusion
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A loud and prominent version of white feminism helped advance these ideologies by systematically attacking trans people as well
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These things ARE connected and while now we have a few names to point to thanks to what Buzzfeed uncovered, it's not the whole story
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I am not "right" because I have some crystall ball. The key is: always look at who is being attacked and who is doing the attacking
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But don't look at the obvious places because those are just like the pus in an open wound. Look at what white "progressives" help normalize
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Let me put it this way: Breitbart pushing neo nazism is expected. A white feminist on bus tour having drinks w/ Milo is where the story is
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I have spoken many times about this but here it goes again: when my health deteriorated in '14 I was constantly attacked I left social media
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many people still remember those days... the attacks didn't come from the right wing. They came from white feminists and their allies!
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So now, seeing that Buzzfeed uncovered documents that show supposed "progressives" supporting Milo? that was kinda expected tbh
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because I lived through it (together with whole bunch of other people I'm not going to drag to this thread now but you all know who you are)
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I don't forget how it was feminists who doxed my brother and threatened to call his work to have him fired because I said "no"
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So again, I insist, the Buzzfeed investigation IS valuable because it puts these things in black and white but for some of us it is not new
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since y'all seem to be in for a moment of recent history, I'll do a refresher on how I ended up leaving social media for a year and a half
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everyone knows I wrote the essay "My feminism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit", right. It wasn't a slogan. it was a title!
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I wrote that in 2011. Here's a link in the off chance anyone hasn't read it http://tigerbeatdown.com/2011/10/10/my-feminism-will-be-intersectional-or-it-will-be-bullshit/ …
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By 2012 and '13 the whole thing had taken off in ways I hadn't expected tbh. Never in my wildest dreams did I expect ppl would pick it up
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ppl were already using the title as a slogan. So, one day I found a group of TERFs using a similar wording to promote an exclusionary event
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I said NO. I do not give you permission to use my words if you are going to exclude trans women from an event. I expressly forbid this
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oh boy I might as well have deprived them of food and air because the amount of ongoing targeted abuse this unleashed
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Simultaneously, people like Helen Lewis and some of the new statesman's writers started calling me "an intersectional bully"
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Helen Lewis called me "the worst of certain strands of feminist writing" and "a pseudo intellectual" among other things
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Emboldened TERFs who now had mainstream support find details about my family (my brother is very visible in his work, less so back then tho)
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and they started @ me photos they had lifted from my facebook (why do you think I no longer use facebook?) and other personal stuff
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I was dealing with severe health issues then. I couldn't cope with having a public profile, getting medical treatment and constant abuse
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So I left altogether because it wasn't worth it. BUT & we come full circle: the right wingers "learned" who to target through these tactics
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