Hasan Piker clarifies his statements on the importance of 'being normal' with regard to building our movement and bringing people to our side:
"I'm not saying we're going to write off trans people, queer people, disabled people, that's ridiculous. I've never done that and I will never do that. But also, a big part of 'be normal' is to have regular disagreements but allow that discourse to take place without treating minor disagreements among comrades as though these are eugenicists who want to assassinate you with a gun."
@voriai5@JakeRazorVEVO@queerBengali Note that you are the one name calling here. Now, if there was anyone in the lesbian bar story who you are analogous to, who would that be?
@queerBengali This absolute unwillingness to have accountability for anyone is the exact problem of the lesbian bar. There are people in the community who are WRECKING it and instead of doing anything about it, you coddle and excuse in in the process, demoralize everyone else
@theashleyray@user4019630626 As someone who is involved with hiring and sees resumes for roles, absolutely not. You have to review hundreds and hundreds of resumes and if I see low effort bullshit anywhere, it’s usually a skip. A honed, quality resume catches attention MUCH better
@theashleyray@user4019630626 An job applicant’s time is much better spent tailoring specific points on their resume to a job than writing a cover letter. Telling people to do that is just a waste of their time. Only ever do a cover letter if there’s something that needs explaining on your resume, eg job gap
@ephemerealities@crulge It should but the whole problem is that it WASN’T being discussed. Bad actors are continually tolerated and uplifted, destroying organizing capacity and driving otherwise engaged people out of the spaces
Imagine you’re just hanging out in your home one day when all of a sudden a little jovial gnome shows up in front of your window and starts wanting to play games with you through the glass.
as someone who has built a sizable and approachable left community online, the secret sauce is routinely purging narcissistic woke scolds who deploy emancipatory language when they want to center their immediate desires selfishly as a separate convo is taking place. it’s also caused a lot of grief from ppl who see out of context clips, but nevertheless boundaries must be drawn.
Bane (in a snugly fitting KN95 mask, holding a group of well-meaning queer entrepreneurs hostage on a zoom call): CENTRING WHITE TEARS AGAIN, BROTHER? BOO-HOO!