@benroyce

@benroyce Thanks for the context for other posts I've been seeing.

@benroyce anyone who expects Bluesky to do the right thing clearly hasn't been paying attention.

@benroyce
I saw some posts on this and didn't know what was going on. There will be more of these trolls coming as Bluesky gets more visibility. Why not just block them?

@benroyce :-)

@dnkboston @manualdousuario @NatureMC

well said

@benroyce I get that at some level. I'm sure all of us have been exposed to people who are smug and not gracious when you admit you're wrong, or like the idea of taking someone down a peg so they can be elevated themselves. There are good reasons to want to avoid that, but it can also be confused with people venting their entirely justified anger at previous wrongdoings.

Let people vent at this guy all they want. He's dehumanizing people, and he should hear it.

@manualdousuario @NatureMC

@SnowyCA @benroyce

On mastdon a flurry of reports to take down anti-genocide voices gets acted on by admins / moderators who are either biased, or too immature to make the right decision.

Let's not pretend this doesn't happen on some of the biggest instances like mastodon-social and mstdn-social.

@dnkboston @manualdousuario @NatureMC

pride

it's not a deadly sin because someone likes looking in the mirror

it's a deadly sin because when challenged on their behavior, they instead double down and embrace the bad behavior and in fact go to even worse

some people can be introspective and admit they did wrong

some people are "never wrong"

jk rowling seems to be the archetype example of that

all she had to do was go "i was wrong"

some people cannot do that

they deify their self-regard

@benroyce If only they could be hounded to genuine contrition instead, but that doesn't seem to work. @manualdousuario @NatureMC

@dnkboston @manualdousuario @NatureMC

exactly

there is a difference between hounding someone to the ends of the earth for a past transgression they have admitted contrition about and apologized for

and hounding someone to the ends of the earth because they are an active and willing gleeful transphobe

@benroyce There's a level at which it's fair to say, "Okay, that was a long time ago, and that isn't who I am anymore." Thinking about young people who are feeling themselves on social media before they understand, well, the world. Those people deserve a little grace.

This guy? No.

@manualdousuario @NatureMC

@manualdousuario @NatureMC @benroyce

You could start this whataboutism at any level of criminal behavior. 'Today pedophiles, tomorrow, who knows?'

The account is clearly a bigot and troll harassing large numbers of people. Why doesn't that kind of child get put in the time out corner in your world?