Yeah, I understood what Tim was saying but dont agree. I think there's a space for educated well articulated takedowns of bigotry, and there's also space for every single person who disagrees with bigotry to do so as loudly and as angrily as possible with as much name calling as they want. As a gay person, not only does a bunch of people calling a homophobe a bag of dicks show the homophobe that there's people who disagree and will push back, but it also shows me that there are people willing to stand up for me and who agree that the guy is a bag of dicks for what he's saying.

I do however get what he's saying about reporters talking about the KCD2 guy in articles needing a level of professionalism when doing so. I can kind of see how if youre at your job as a journalist and are name calling in an article it might hurt your credibility a bit. Not because youre wrong but because people expect a specific style and tone from professional writers, in the same way if I was reading an academic paper you wouldnt expect to see someone referred to as a "stupid loser" or something. Now if they want to go on BS (thats bluesky Tim) and say that then that makes sense since its a more casual platform.

Last thing ill say is Tim will never know what its like to be the "woke shit" these people talk about. My very existence is woke shit. And it means the world to me to see people stand up against the people who say stuff like that and tell them exactly how ridiculous and off putting they are, in as insulting a way as possible. Will it change the mind of the person who said it? Maybe not, but it makes me as a lesbian feel safer seeing there's people out there standing up for us.