Also someone is funding theses TERFs. I've noticed renewed energy over the last few weeks. I bet the money is coming from Christian extremists aka... anti abortion white supremacists. That's my hunch.
Thanks to those sharing articles and threads looking into this. Will add these to this thread...
We must be able to ask questions of how online movements are funded particularly those that spends days searching key terms and accounts.
I've been equally critical of state sponsored bots, and bots sowing division in racial justice movements.
Interesting thread.... https://mobile.twitter.com/caseyexplosion/status/1048237057779404800?lang=en
What is also super interesting is my filter settings me I can't see tweeta from new accounts, those who haven't changed their default profile photo and confirmed their email addresses. That's removed 80% of the replies and quote tweets.
I don't know any other movement that spends it time searching terms to then troll people and call that campaigning? Not only is it abusive and smells, it reeks of privilege to be able to spends hours online finding people to argue with.
Where as activists and campaigners are busy doing the actual work. Nor do they get funding to start beef in this aggressive manner. To me this "reactive style campaigning" is privilege.
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