We mean the cuddly kind of vengeance
It seems that suddenly the trans movement has bumped up against a boundary.
Twitter says it has removed thousands of tweets showing a poster promoting a “trans day of vengeance” protest in support of transgender rights in Washington, D.C., on Saturday.
Ella Irwin, Twitter’s head of Trust and Safety, said in a tweet Wednesday that the company automatically removed more than 5,000 tweets and retweets of a poster promoting the event.
“We do not support tweets that incite violence irrespective of who posts them. “Vengeance” does not imply peaceful protest. Organizing or support for peaceful protests is ok,” Irwin wrote in the tweet.
But trans activists don’t know from peaceful protest. They feel entitled and aggrieved, and they’ve been warmly encouraged to feel that for a good few years. Don’t talk to them about peaceful protest when there are women still walking around who freely say they don’t believe trans women are women.
But trans activists were quick to point out that “trans day of vengeance” is a meme that has been around in the trans community for years and is not a call to violence — and said Twitter is misguided in its reasoning behind removing the tweets in support of the protest.
On its website, the group organizing Saturday’s protest said it does not condone violence.
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“Vengeance means fighting back with vehemence,” the protest’s organizers wrote on their website. “We are fighting against false narratives, criminalization, and eradication of our existence.”
Uh huh, “with vehemence” like getting people fired and shunned, trashing women’s sports, going off like a siren every five minutes, demanding the whole world pay attention to your non-existent plight…and when you’re in the mood, plain old everyday violence. Just ask Fred Sargeant.
I prefer the version of the poster I got from Nikki Craft on Facebook.
Vengeance for what? They been done wrong how? Basically if people don’t accept the ideology, it will be forced on them, that’s what. It’s an overt threat.
Why, those cute anime girls pointing guns at TERFs are really just calls for dialog and are not not not a threat to anyone, you bigot!
The first of those wasn’t even a girl, by the way.
Well that’s a fine example of implausible deniability.
Let’s forget about transactivism’s horrible track record of encouraging suicidal ideation amongst its supposed client base. The flip side of that coin is the homicidal ideation that runs rampant through activist communications. For all the supposed TERF prepping for trans genocide, it’s the trans activists’ twitter feeds that are awash in an incontinent stream of violent revenge fantasies. They’ve been saying the quiet part out loud for years. It’s actually shocking to have any institution stepping in like this in response to threats from trans activists. It’s about fucking time someone did. If feminists had exhibited anywhere near the degree of murderous wish fulfilment in their statements, it would be on constant replay, 24/7. It would be news, not wallpaper. “Another cute anime ‘Kill the TERFs meme.” They’re just joking, you know. Call us when they do something serious. Better yet, don’t call us at all. It would be in self defence anyway.”
Only people that think self defence includes running up to someone’s Nan to punch her in the face could possibly make this claim with a straight face. Vengeance has always had connotations of violence without any need to specify such.
Also, “we’ve been doing [bad thing] for years” isn’t really a defense, but instead a confession. It neither refutes the charge not shows that the bad thing isn’t bad. A confession doesn’t absolve one of culpability.
I see the “Trans Day of Vengeance” march has been cancelled:
https://twitter.com/OurRightsDC/status/1641589568670674945
They say it’s due to “a credible threat”, but it’s more likely that post-Nashville shooting, they realized it would a be PR disaster.
So it’s heads they win tails everyone else loses. The usual.