What did I do? On March 23, I tweeted this image—after confirming it wasn’t a tasteless April Fool’s Day joke!—and warned that suggestive rhetoric around vengeance and violence in response to ‘trans genocide’ raised the risk that a trans-identified person or ally would take up that suggestion.
This whole movement has made me think David Icke, outlandish as he may be, is on to something when he suggests there is some force in the world that really feeds on human despair and distress. the ginning up of murderous behavior in trans activism is in the service of some really dark appetites.
I started to think about this more when I briefly was running a Twitter account for an organization and experienced how the "inside side" of the Twitter account, aptly named "the feed", was a solid wall of Jeffrey Marsh and Dylan Mulvaney videos -- two men who seemed built in a lab to frighten, disgust, and infuriate. And it occurred to me: these are the Tutsis they are showing Hutus like me, and I need to stop looking at them.
That doesn't mean stop thinking about the issues, stop writing, stop protesting, stop mobilizing. But really dark forces want IN to all of our souls. The folk wisdom about vampires -- they can't get into your house unless you INVITE them in -- applies here.
trans activism is the abyss. It's sad so many trans-identified people and their "allies" have fallen into it and all you have to do is look at the NZ footage to see what it does to people, what it turns them into.
But those of us opposed to it have to remember what Nietzche said: when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
(this is not scolding your post Eliza, which is great and important. Just was an opportunity to air some thoughts I've been having!)
That screenshot comment is really amazing. I would be curious who the writer of it is. A shame they were censored.
These violent events are really shocking and awful. When we heard about it yesterday my husband and I were saying how strange it is that it was a woman, that that’s a very rare thing. We even joked maybe she might be trans. Then before going to bed I opened the news that confirmed this to be the case and we were creeped out that our previous dark joke turned out to be accurate. So strange.
As insane as it all is, I think on a positive note with more events like these happening it inevitably is marking the end of the trans movements golden age, and people are realizing that this healthcare and ideology is detrimental to young peoples mental health. And it confirms that a trans identified person, is in fact a mentally ill person- not just another identity to be respected like being Italian or whatever it may be. It’s just so clearly an unsustainable ideology that has no legs to stand on anymore and I think most people that are paying attention are probably also realizing this.
This is one of the many ways the purposeful blurring the meaning of words to describe material reality fucks everything up: Was the shooter male (and identified as a transwoman) or female (and identified as a transman)? Even I'M confused.
I've been in Twitter jail for over 6 months. I can't bring myself to agree that what I wrote was either wrong or inaccurate in order to retrieve my account. Love the response to your posting.
Elon Musk is a coward and a hypocrite. Electric cars are a waste of carbon, as is recycling their dangerous batteries, as is mining every last scrap of lithium from underneath indigenous cultures for his environmental racism.
Sorry to hear of your "travails" with Twitter. Bit surprising given that "After Musk (AM)", Twitter 2.0 seemed much less willing to toe the transgender party line -- the hashtag #TransWomenAreConMen being surprisingly popular, Catherine Deves having tweeted it herself.
But good on you -- and others -- for drawing attention to the psychotic & thuggish behaviour of too many transactivists. I had been tweeting recently a link to the "Terf is a slur" website that provides chapter and verse in the way of confirmation of that "thesis" -- more like a very brute and quite ugly fact:
Quite possibly why I have now been "permanently suspended" -- all I got was something in the way of a bare assertion of having engaged in some sort of spamming. Appeal in the works but who knows how that will play out.
In any case, good point with your "raised the risk that a trans-identified person or ally would take up that suggestion". Not sure if you've ever heard of the concept of "stochastic terrorism", but the term seems entirely applicable. I'd first run across the term in a Daily Kos article from some 12 years ago, and had written a Medium post in response to a much later incident that utilized the concept:
But somewhat more broadly, you may want to consider rattling Musk's cage about the "Star Chamber" there at the rotten heart of Twitter. I've been suspended several times -- both permanently and temporarily -- and one of my responses to the first of which was an "Open Letter" to Twitter & Jack Dorsey which may be of some use to you:
Well ... thinking like an algorithm, I'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between *promoting* the event and *warning about* the event, if what I had to work with was a graphic. It *looks* like Twitter's action is intended to keep the event off the platform, period. (And n.b. displaying the graphic, while establishing a record of its existence, does *also* put it in the face of people who might be hate-reading your tweets who might not already have known about it and been inspired to go to it.)
Great post, Eliza. Seems more like a Deportation Center than jail to me :) La-la land requires full loyalty of its citizens and deports the suspects. The Algorithm is the wall to keep the unwanted elements out.
So Elon Musk is covering up violent threats by the transifiers. Good look Elon!
We must keep pressure on the Nashville police and the MSM to release the murderer's "manifesto".
This whole movement has made me think David Icke, outlandish as he may be, is on to something when he suggests there is some force in the world that really feeds on human despair and distress. the ginning up of murderous behavior in trans activism is in the service of some really dark appetites.
I started to think about this more when I briefly was running a Twitter account for an organization and experienced how the "inside side" of the Twitter account, aptly named "the feed", was a solid wall of Jeffrey Marsh and Dylan Mulvaney videos -- two men who seemed built in a lab to frighten, disgust, and infuriate. And it occurred to me: these are the Tutsis they are showing Hutus like me, and I need to stop looking at them.
That doesn't mean stop thinking about the issues, stop writing, stop protesting, stop mobilizing. But really dark forces want IN to all of our souls. The folk wisdom about vampires -- they can't get into your house unless you INVITE them in -- applies here.
trans activism is the abyss. It's sad so many trans-identified people and their "allies" have fallen into it and all you have to do is look at the NZ footage to see what it does to people, what it turns them into.
But those of us opposed to it have to remember what Nietzche said: when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you.
(this is not scolding your post Eliza, which is great and important. Just was an opportunity to air some thoughts I've been having!)
It’s amazing how pointing to people calling for violence is violence but the original call for violence is just fine.
That screenshot comment is really amazing. I would be curious who the writer of it is. A shame they were censored.
These violent events are really shocking and awful. When we heard about it yesterday my husband and I were saying how strange it is that it was a woman, that that’s a very rare thing. We even joked maybe she might be trans. Then before going to bed I opened the news that confirmed this to be the case and we were creeped out that our previous dark joke turned out to be accurate. So strange.
As insane as it all is, I think on a positive note with more events like these happening it inevitably is marking the end of the trans movements golden age, and people are realizing that this healthcare and ideology is detrimental to young peoples mental health. And it confirms that a trans identified person, is in fact a mentally ill person- not just another identity to be respected like being Italian or whatever it may be. It’s just so clearly an unsustainable ideology that has no legs to stand on anymore and I think most people that are paying attention are probably also realizing this.
This is one of the many ways the purposeful blurring the meaning of words to describe material reality fucks everything up: Was the shooter male (and identified as a transwoman) or female (and identified as a transman)? Even I'M confused.
I've been in Twitter jail for over 6 months. I can't bring myself to agree that what I wrote was either wrong or inaccurate in order to retrieve my account. Love the response to your posting.
Really appreciate the honesty in the last screencap's comment. Disappointing that they censored it.
Maaate, what a crock!! So sorry this has happened! Brilliant examples in this post of their insanity, that need serious exposure.
Things are going to get much worse, and weirder, before they get better.
Elon Musk is a coward and a hypocrite. Electric cars are a waste of carbon, as is recycling their dangerous batteries, as is mining every last scrap of lithium from underneath indigenous cultures for his environmental racism.
Lots of aggrieved entitlement.
Sorry to hear of your "travails" with Twitter. Bit surprising given that "After Musk (AM)", Twitter 2.0 seemed much less willing to toe the transgender party line -- the hashtag #TransWomenAreConMen being surprisingly popular, Catherine Deves having tweeted it herself.
But good on you -- and others -- for drawing attention to the psychotic & thuggish behaviour of too many transactivists. I had been tweeting recently a link to the "Terf is a slur" website that provides chapter and verse in the way of confirmation of that "thesis" -- more like a very brute and quite ugly fact:
https://terfisaslur.com/
Quite possibly why I have now been "permanently suspended" -- all I got was something in the way of a bare assertion of having engaged in some sort of spamming. Appeal in the works but who knows how that will play out.
In any case, good point with your "raised the risk that a trans-identified person or ally would take up that suggestion". Not sure if you've ever heard of the concept of "stochastic terrorism", but the term seems entirely applicable. I'd first run across the term in a Daily Kos article from some 12 years ago, and had written a Medium post in response to a much later incident that utilized the concept:
https://medium.com/@steersmann/toronto-van-attack-lone-wolf-or-stochastic-terrorism-726b8d377030
But somewhat more broadly, you may want to consider rattling Musk's cage about the "Star Chamber" there at the rotten heart of Twitter. I've been suspended several times -- both permanently and temporarily -- and one of my responses to the first of which was an "Open Letter" to Twitter & Jack Dorsey which may be of some use to you:
https://medium.com/@steersmann/open-letter-to-twitters-board-of-directors-d1c87603a832
Ugh--polarization, intensification, horror, and terror. It takes only a few to destabilize it all for the rest of us.
Well, welcome to the club, dear! We trans widows are in permanent "twitter purgatory."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEuTLkt_7g8&t=1s
Well ... thinking like an algorithm, I'd be hard-pressed to tell the difference between *promoting* the event and *warning about* the event, if what I had to work with was a graphic. It *looks* like Twitter's action is intended to keep the event off the platform, period. (And n.b. displaying the graphic, while establishing a record of its existence, does *also* put it in the face of people who might be hate-reading your tweets who might not already have known about it and been inspired to go to it.)
Great post, Eliza. Seems more like a Deportation Center than jail to me :) La-la land requires full loyalty of its citizens and deports the suspects. The Algorithm is the wall to keep the unwanted elements out.