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The Secret Internet of TERFs

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/12/reddit-ovarit-the-donald/617320/

After they were banned from Reddit, trans-exclusionary radical feminists became the latest of many toxic communities to simply build their own platform.

some article about banned reddit communities, specially r/GenderCritical.

Apart from reviewing the weird shit that terfs post online, I found a reflection on the article about how these communities were more "repressed" on reddit because other subreddits bullied them.

So I kinda miss bullying chuds and terfs, and knowing that this had an impact makes me sad..

Bonus: they only mention chapo when talking about Lemmy, and how its devs refused to help the online terfs. Proud of you @dessalines @nutomic :fidel-salute: and fuck the "free speech" tech bros that helped them.

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The ban seems like it backfired to me. The article brings up LSA briefly, but there was a sort of broader almost class division where there terfs have more of a home on sites where there are a lot of working class cis women and racial minorities now.

LSA is the best example of this because it is a lot of people who would get kicked off twitter where the celebrities are, but the site's fame came from it having a lot of women posters who are basically the working class of Hollywood and had a bunch of insider gossip about different celebrities. So the dynamic of terf stuff being a bunch of bougie white people talking to other bougie white people on reddit is gone and when class bleeds through into LSA's other discussions it's basically the Chappelle bit where trans issues are framed as bougie issues, a bougie plot or some element of white supremacy.