It's kind of mean, but god damn I've only got so much time in the fucking day jc, we're already on the bleeding edge of societal views
Honestly I don’t even think it’s mean, you just have boundaries and standards for how people need to treat you if they want you to stick around.
okay this is accurate tho
I am going to try not to be snarky and believe you are acting in good faith. OP has a very new account (less than a month), so probably hasn’t seen the absolute dogshit monsoon of bad faith transphobes.
I also saw you mentioned you were cis. By insisting that DroneRights wasn’t transphobic and instead just misunderstood, you need to understand that you’re actively talking over ND trans people who identified what was going on there.
I tried to give DroneRights a chance and even kinda saw what it meant by criticizing the use of narcissism. Shit-ass way to open with a new group of people, but okay, whatever, that can happen. It kept going though and aside from being pretty shitty to other people, it also kept dropping transphobic dog whistles.
With that said, I’m not willing to entertain any argument that centers the feelings of a transphobe over those of trans and ND people.
I really think you should stop trying to defend that account OP. It makes it hard to take you sincerely when I feel like you’re more concerned with defending a troll you’ve mistaken for a martyr than collaborating with everyone on ways to make the site better for ND people.
But can we, for the sake of ND users, consider the possibility that DroneRights is infact who it says it is
as an autistic trans woman I do not want anyone taking a transphobic and enbyphobic troll at face-value on my behalf. thanks but no thanks.
regardless it was banned for being transphobic. the response post you linked to is talking about something entirely offtopic from what got DroneRights banned.
Yup, once they let a wrecker mod hijack things they were hosed
Legitimately this is extremely disgusting and vile behavior
i would just change it to self-centered. this is an online topic that’s not worth the argument and also narcissism unfortunately does have lightly ableist connotations now since the word has now been medicalized
they’re prioritizing anti-leftism over transphobia on an instance literally named after a transgender shark lmfao
this is the hugest self-own I’ve seen. you run an instance for trans people you goddamn fucking prick
Originally posted this as a comment in a separate thread also dunking on Gran Torino. Making my own effort post after my comment turned into a full on review / essay.
Gran Torino is about a racist white savior jesus aka how clint eastwood sees himself.
Seriously an absolute fucking shitpile of a movie that even liberals ate up. “The great replacement” is even a core plot point in the movie (“this neighborhood used to be white and nice”) and it pats white people on the back for only sometimes using slurs.
It never addresses the need for white america to address its racism systemically. Instead the responsibility is only on the individual (therefore just a moral failing).
To be clear, the responsibility is on both society and the individual. Each person must make the effort to deprogram internalized prejudice in addition to forcing through systemic change. Unlike with something like climate change, racism and other forms of bigotry will continue to perpetuate themselves through individuals furthering the behavior inside of the systems they exist within.
There is little examination of why marginalized people live in poverty (eg war on drugs / police occupation / apartheid / housing discrimination/ carceral slavery cycle / etc). Instead the film blames the communities themselves (“deadbeat dads”, gangs, welfare, “not integrating”, etc).
Throughout it Eastwood says all the things and uses all the slurs his white audience wishes they still could. It is presented in a way where they can “scold” him while also reveling in that racism being directed at minorities and enjoying the pain it brings those characters.
The shitty classic car he pathologically works on throughout the film is the laziest metaphor for America since Fitzgerald used it in Gatsby a hundred years ago. If I’m remembering right, a minority even steals it at one point before it is (surprise surprise) reclaimed by the white man.
The movie fucking ends with Eastwood being literally crucified through gun violence on a sidewalk, his arms extended, blood pouring over his hands like the stigmata.
After the white man sacrifices himself as the hero and main character, he also graciously gives the car/ america to the minorities that learned to respect him despite his racism. They “got some manners” and now have been given rights on the white man’s terms (after he was done with it).
Completely goddamn delusional.
I had a white relative put it on and he acted like he deserved a fucking medal for it. Fucking clueless.
I haven’t watched that shit since, so I’m probably forgetting some details. I’m not going to rewatch it to make sure I’m presenting everything accurately.
Conclusion:
Gran Torino is as close as Clint Eastwood could get to remaking The Birth Of A Nation while still convincing liberals in Hollywood to fund it.
I think like a lot of trolls, DroneRights honed in on something legitimate (ableist language) and then used it to be an asshole. That’s part of why it’s good to have these convos proactively so we can identify areas to improve before they can be used as wedges.