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mycology, man...

i feel like it's absolutely crucial in the social justice world to take "he a little confused but he got the spirit" and similar sentiments/situations as a Win. intent is so much more important than saying it right the first time! if someone is approaching with scuffed language and incorrect terms but they're visibly being as polite as they know how, that person is a friend and should be treated better than what their words might invite in someone else's mouth.

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on kindness.

I think some of yall should just say “hate the sin love the sinner” about physical shifters and be done. Yeah it’s condescending, but at least then you’d be rhetorically honest.

Mask your reactionary language all you’d like, you are still using your personal distaste to justify moral condemnation.

I’m becoming increasingly frustrated with larger, well established accounts platforming this line of thinking uncritically. You are letting a knee-jerk repulsion guide your moral judgement on something you don’t want to/can’t understand or you otherwise dislike. At best you are “thinking of the children” and somehow don’t hear how conservative you sound.

Now we’re playing this disingenuous game where we pretend our issue is really with the term “p-shifter” when everything described applies to physical shifters broadly.

I don’t know how to break this to you all, but individuals interested in doing harmful things are not going to stay in the box you’ve pre established for them. And when you make a box in the interest of identifying harm, label it “the evil box” knowing full well some of the individuals in the box are in fact not evil, you are ostracizing them and making them unwelcome in the community. Those you don’t consider evil you infantilize, insisting their finding themselves in “the evil box” is because of their inability to protect themselves—something you are all too happy to do in their stead. If you are really truly interested in keeping abuse and cult behavior out of the community and you’re not just concern trolling (search within yourself), you should be invested in doing the opposite.

Small, walled-off and isolated communities make it easier for abuse to go unseen and unpunished. In ostracizing p-shifters/physical shifters/any other flavor of nonhuman your nose crinkles up at, you force us into increasingly narrow communities and in so doing create the very conditions you accuse us of fostering.

Educate the community on the warning signs of abuse, sure. Please do, in fact! But those warning signs should be actual behavior someone carries out, not gestures at “the bad group who are abusive by nature of existing and discussing their experiences openly.”

yeah … even when this is truly about whether or not to say p-shifter in specific - and think that could be fair intra-community discussion , in part because p-shifter have particular associations in wider alterhuman communities - there is still this bad taste in mouth in how folks choose to discuss from outside community .

not to mention attitudes of somehow , physical shift in particular absolutely require hard consensus reality proof - even when not actually experience that way - and refusal to respect experience otherwise ? not to say other physical nonhumans never hear this as well , but kossai notice this especially target physical shifters .

to be honest , still not really understand experiences , because everyone have different relationship with these terms , which include what even is physical - which is fine , no need to fully understand to respect space . because yeah , absolutely , attempts to control what experiences get to be respectable or not will not make anyone " stop " - will only make those folks ditch open , leaderless communities for private ones that might actually have incentive to hurt and isolate .

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