someone on one of those lists (not even Lydarkaon’s list!) was defended by Kage … kinda.
Yeah, that was actually one of the things that set off my skepticism about Charles' article. The tweet linked that screenshots Rogue Megawolf’s twitter thread has Rogue saying,
[Aerys] is getting thrashed, and deservedly so. I want to see him take his licks, and let his bruises and scars be a constant reminder of what we as a society will not tolerate. I want him to grow, and I want him to learn. I am not for one second defending racism or hate or intolerance. I am defending human imperfection and the ability of someone who has a poisoned mind to heal.
That might be a naïve take, and it arguably turned out to be a misinformed take, but it’s a stretch to insist it’s an insidious take. Charles clearly reads nefarious intent in Kage using an “alt” rather than his main account, but there’s a much less conspiratorial explanation that’s possible: Aerys was a macrophile, and Rogue is (ahem) a big name within that group.
But:
I’ve never really said it out loud before, but this is why those activists who go into Furry Nazi discords and then screenshot the people who say “I’m a Nazi” and then dump then on Twitter or wherever are actually not helping. That’s an invasion of privacy, and while “undercover journalism” is a thing, it’s a bit more complicated than just “going undercover”, and there’s usually something very big and important that can only be revealed that way, unlike the Nazi discord dumps which usually prove “that guy everyone already knew was a piece of shit” was actually “a piece of shit” all along!
Thank you. You’ve encapsulated what I sardonically referred to as “callout posts cosplaying as investigative journalism” earlier in a much better – dare I say journalistic – way.
Yeah, that was actually one of the things that set off my skepticism about Charles' article. The tweet linked that screenshots Rogue Megawolf’s twitter thread has Rogue saying,
That might be a naïve take, and it arguably turned out to be a misinformed take, but it’s a stretch to insist it’s an insidious take. Charles clearly reads nefarious intent in Kage using an “alt” rather than his main account, but there’s a much less conspiratorial explanation that’s possible: Aerys was a macrophile, and Rogue is (ahem) a big name within that group.
But:
Thank you. You’ve encapsulated what I sardonically referred to as “callout posts cosplaying as investigative journalism” earlier in a much better – dare I say journalistic – way.
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