Babble, 2025-07-27, 09:16h

It's hard not to be disappointed in myself for not taking oodles of screenshots and recordings of every conversation I've had on the Web with folk, because I definitely remember getting into contentious arguments with @Cyborgneticz@scholars.social about all sorts of stuff, generally focused around how directly to support antagonism of colonialism, and the risks around doing it for the marginalized. That is, they'd argue being queer is a risk, thus asking for greater antagonism is asking too much, and I'd argue that there are queers who aren't white settlers that are antagonising things, and their stance, while fine to personally hold, presented as a truth, erases those people and those efforts.

Now, I see, they have a book coming out, "Be Gay Do Crimes," and it's just... awful feeling to see someone who has pointedly argued against doing crimes turn talking about crime into an income. And I'm sure they will argue because they are putting out this propaganda, they can't do the things they're advocating others do - a trend I've noticed among many folk, a part of the counterinsurrectionaryism of modern discourse. (And one that I inevitably fall into, myself.)

But I don't have screenshots of this, so I can't really go around like, pointing this out.