#you BECOME the people the mainstream defines as cringe and even unethical

[aeide-thea]

it can simultaneously be true that (a) someone's conduct has been hypocritical, reprehensible, and the opposite of accountable, AND that (b) it nonetheless still behooves us to have standards for the methods/agents by which we think it's acceptable for that conduct to be exposed to the general public

i'm increasingly getting the impression that some of you would be perfectly fine with warrantless searches, blackmail, etc, as long as those practices targeted people you thought were sufficiently cringe and turned up behavior you were having enough fun gossiping about

#nobody fucking has principles around here #(that's not true‚ some of you do and i appreciate the fuck out of you‚ but. for hyperbolic values of 'nobody.') #i'm not remotely perfect at having principles myself but i do at least think it's important #not least because if you don't defend the rights of the people you think are cringe and even unethical #you BECOME the people the mainstream defines as cringe and even unethical #anyway yeah this one IS about what you think it's about and it's EXTREMELY not a hill i wanted to die on bc i was NOT a fan #shit WAS bad AND we shouldn't know about it AND i've seen SO much transphobia in the way people have been talking about it #anyway. fully expect that some of you will roll your eyes at me or think i must not really condemn the conduct in question #but really i just think we shouldn't be getting quite so gleefully into bed with (as i understand it) k*wif*rms?? #in conclusion prev post was queued a long time ago but it sure is topical