Subtoot at a distant observer who has some takeaways from today's fediverse events
No, you will not mischaracterize me and the people calling out racism as people who are okay with transphobia. That is character assassination.
I am one of the last people in this world who is going to tolerate transphobia. If anyone intentionally misgenders someone, or do other transphobic and enbyphobic things on my watch, that would be an instant block.
None of us have indicated that we're okay with transphobia or misgendering. What really happened was that we are acknowledging that language can lead us wrong. That is not an excuse, or to say it's okay to misgender. It's to say that a lot of harmful cultural ideas are baked into the way we think, act and write, and the language we use to convey ourselves, and that even the best of us can make mistakes.
That's why callouts happen, when we keep each other thinking about the way we do things and how it might hurt others, we tend to avoid these harmful behaviours.
