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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

I have watched it. And Sean's take, and Jessie Gender's. I followed the wizard game boycott as well as Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull's tour and debacle in Australia and New Zealand.

Normally I don't engage with those in the movement at all, (whether we're talking about the anti-trans movement in the US and UK or the white Christian nationalist movement and fascist takeover of the US federal and state governments). I am used to being confronted by them in response to a comment to a third party. And when hate or allegiance to the movement reveals itself, I feel obligated to confront it. Hate movements thrive when left unchecked to fester and grow.

That said, it wasn't my intention to brag, more I was pondering if my studies (of the Holocaust, for instance) have dulled its visceral effects on me so I may be expecting a degree of impartiality that isn't normal for most. I've predicted and grieved over the fascist uprising in the US back in the aughts, so today I see it as a near inevitability. We will have to be very lucky for the US to evade autocratic fascism during the next decade.

But it wasn't my intent to offend, and I get it if you want to assume I'm as incorrigible as much of the internet. My own disposition is neither cheery nor sociable.