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benji wrote:

Let me address this for myself and myself only. I do not post this stuff to mock them for it, I'm not going to mock fat4all for the way he looks, I have no reason to mock Kyuuji for being ginger, etc. This is about critiquing social power.

If after I post this stuff people mock Melody for the way he looks rather than his expanding mass of Gundams or Nepenthe for her being a furry rather than her lack of dignified life at that house, I'm not going to police that and say this is about undermining their power so everybody needs to back my agenda.

I'm also not under the illusion that the true believers are going to run screaming because they see the real person, I'm not a revolutionary. But there's a constant permanent effect when you read IrishNinja's violent nonsense and remember what he looks like and how his real life is. Extrapolate this across the members.

If anything, Melody is clearly better than these people. He's putting himself out there as he is. He's not hiding, trying to cover his tracks and protect his history from being used against him as they use any tiny thing against anyone else. Look how fast Kyuuji tried to hide his connection to a single YouTube account and probably would have done the rest if he could. Look at Nepenthe's reaction to the first time she noticed something that had been posted before that she only noticed because people were critiquing her anti-semitism and pro-genocide posts. Look at Bobby Robert's reaction to the fact that people were simply talking about things he posted under his own real name and was himself proud of saying. These things matter within the context of the commentary that is uncovering them.

If you are attempting to leverage your identity to obtain power over others it matters that you're being dishonest and lying. Melody's funny because he's so fucking inept at this and yet he comes back every week asking for more food donations and hinting at suicide. His power exists only because of the hegemonic structure established by people like Kyuuji and Nepenthe. And that's the critique embedded in uncovering the truth of such members, it matters that you're trying to control what others can perceive about what you're using as justification for your power.

Also this. And even more to me, the fact that others there are too cowed or too complicit to do it. Especially not publicly.

That said, if members continue to complain (either directly through posts or through the likes on those posts which I am not ignoring, I'm aware my position is strongly a minority one on here) I will continue to consider other ways of doing this. One thing I have to reject is creating a private section where it is done because that is what they do. I believe there is value in The Bire being public and not only easily seen but easily confronted just by signing up. The fact that a person refuses to engage their critics and instead only smears them where they feel safe from the critics is telling about their character. Since it was brought up, I believe Kiwi Farms is an excellent example of this when you look at the people who have chosen to engage them directly, like Caroline Farrow who is the first declared-lolcow who did it I could think of immediately, rather than try to encourage off-site mobs to find ways to prevent it from existing through false accusations and criminal behavior.

This may be a discussion that warrants its own thread rather than litigated in here.

Dismissing concerns 

I'm going to dismiss your dismissing concerns because benji clearly has a history of histories.