meanwhile, it's another normal day on twitter

i feel like there's two different things we talk about both as "cancel culture"

there's the thing where we critically examine the actions and beliefs of people with enormous amounts of influence and hold them accountable

and there's the thing where we use the same mechanisms to destroy the lives of small, often queer, creators for making mistakes or for making problematic content

we play a dangerous game by conflating the two

people who hurt people should be held accountable for that, no matter what. if a queer person with some small amount of clout hurt you, you deserve to find peace for that in some way

but i think we can afford a lighter, more restorative touch for people who, say, can't afford teams of lawyers and pr agents

to wit, if you dox a rich douche's address they can probably just hire a security detail and move

if you dox a queer person there's a decent chance they'll die on the streets

i guess this is why kiwifarms gets away with what it does. it's still fucking despicable, even if it sometimes goes after people who genuinely did harm, because they don't actually care about justice, just destroying people and laughing about it

a certain leftist furry whose name i will not publicly repeat thinks using "evidence" from kf is fine because sometimes their targets really are bad. thanks! you are a dangerous individual and i will never trust you again

also, a hint: sometimes the targets you think are bad are not actually bad and you're caught in a web of deception that kiwifarms helped perpetrate. these are my fucking friends we're talking about, asshole