As if he doesn’t also have millions of hollow-brained adoring money-worshipping fans who think he’s the best thing since the third reich. That should balance out the hate.
I used to get death threats online pretty regularly. It definitely doesn’t balance out. That said, Musk has earned this. I’m not going to feel sad about a guy doing a fascist coup having his feelings hurt when people don’t like it
I work in gender affirming care that includes pediatric populations and have my services listed online for referrals. It’s not super common to be fair but every once in a while I get an email or voicemail that’s like “you’re a child abuser and you should die” or some shit. It’s why I specifically say voicemail; I don’t answer calls to my business phone bc of this. Everything gets screened and I call back. Thankfully it’s infrequent and this has been enough to ensure I never have to engage with these people.
You’re absolutely right though. I’ve posted about my work before and people will sometimes be like “thank you for doing what you do”. I appreciate that, and those comments outnumber these threats, which again are not very common, but they stick out. Even the ones that don’t wish me dead. Once I got an email that just said “f*g enabler”. I don’t know why I remember that. It was years ago.
It’s the knowledge that someone out there absolutely hates you and wants you to die without knowing anything (really) about who you are, I think.
The really sad part of this is that this is a core part of the minority stress model; that feeling constant oppression from the world around you is noxious and has measurable consequences on physical and mental health. If he and his dumb racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, etc cronies reflected on their experience and practiced empathy for even a moment they would realize that this stress is something experienced almost constantly by someone on their hit list, because of them.
Edit: while I appreciate the positivity I genuinely didn’t mean for this to be a “please give me positive support” thing. I dunno I always feel awkward posting about this because it’s like I’m fishing for compliments at the expense of one of the most marginalized communities out there. You don’t need to thank me, though I do appreciate it quite a bit
Thank you. I can’t find the words to express how much I admire you for doing the work you do despite the hate. I’m sorry we live in a world where the work you do inspires such vile sentiment, but I’m grateful for people like you making the world less horrible.
Thank you immensely for doing what you do, and for persevering through the difficult parts while doing it. You’re exactly the kind of hero we need more of. I’m sorry there are still so many terrible people.
You’ve made the world a far better place than any of those shitstains could ever hope to. However little it may mean, you’re improving and saving lives, and we’re all thankful for it.
It should, if it’s organic. It probably ruins the magic when you know a large portion (who knows, maybe even a majority) of them are either literal bots or paid participants in disinformation campaigns.
As if he doesn’t also have millions of hollow-brained adoring money-worshipping fans who think he’s the best thing since the third reich. That should balance out the hate.
I used to get death threats online pretty regularly. It definitely doesn’t balance out. That said, Musk has earned this. I’m not going to feel sad about a guy doing a fascist coup having his feelings hurt when people don’t like it
I work in gender affirming care that includes pediatric populations and have my services listed online for referrals. It’s not super common to be fair but every once in a while I get an email or voicemail that’s like “you’re a child abuser and you should die” or some shit. It’s why I specifically say voicemail; I don’t answer calls to my business phone bc of this. Everything gets screened and I call back. Thankfully it’s infrequent and this has been enough to ensure I never have to engage with these people.
You’re absolutely right though. I’ve posted about my work before and people will sometimes be like “thank you for doing what you do”. I appreciate that, and those comments outnumber these threats, which again are not very common, but they stick out. Even the ones that don’t wish me dead. Once I got an email that just said “f*g enabler”. I don’t know why I remember that. It was years ago.
It’s the knowledge that someone out there absolutely hates you and wants you to die without knowing anything (really) about who you are, I think.
The really sad part of this is that this is a core part of the minority stress model; that feeling constant oppression from the world around you is noxious and has measurable consequences on physical and mental health. If he and his dumb racist, sexist, transphobic, homophobic, etc cronies reflected on their experience and practiced empathy for even a moment they would realize that this stress is something experienced almost constantly by someone on their hit list, because of them.
Edit: while I appreciate the positivity I genuinely didn’t mean for this to be a “please give me positive support” thing. I dunno I always feel awkward posting about this because it’s like I’m fishing for compliments at the expense of one of the most marginalized communities out there. You don’t need to thank me, though I do appreciate it quite a bit
Thank you. I can’t find the words to express how much I admire you for doing the work you do despite the hate. I’m sorry we live in a world where the work you do inspires such vile sentiment, but I’m grateful for people like you making the world less horrible.
Thank you
Thank you immensely for doing what you do, and for persevering through the difficult parts while doing it. You’re exactly the kind of hero we need more of. I’m sorry there are still so many terrible people.
Thank you
You’ve made the world a far better place than any of those shitstains could ever hope to. However little it may mean, you’re improving and saving lives, and we’re all thankful for it.
Thank you
It should, if it’s organic. It probably ruins the magic when you know a large portion (who knows, maybe even a majority) of them are either literal bots or paid participants in disinformation campaigns.