Josh "Null" of Kiwifarms wrote this piece on Medium as a response to another Medium article which criticized the site for its callouts. It raises a good point. While KF may be distasteful in a lot of its content, it is fast becoming one of the last places you can freely name abusers without being banned or censored.
medium.com/@ItsJoshProbably/while-well-written-and-more-on-the-mark-than-other-articles-trying-to-explain-the-same-thing-your-f41bb7404203
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"While well written and more on-the-mark than other articles trying to explain the same thing, your fatal flaw is shared in that you fail to identify an alternative. You could argue that’s not your job, but if you want a truly persuasive essay it needs to be. “Here is the problem, here is the solution.” Your writing begs an answer you cannot provide. People can criticize the site all day, and I frequently do myself, but your faced with one primary problem.
The forum was never meant to be a place for “callouts”, a bizarre symptom of Tumblr that I barely understand. It just became one. And, while we have an enormous library of threads regarding transgender subjects as you’ve pointed out, I still get people who are transgender participating actively within the community as spectator, and contacting me directly for help with problems.
Someone comes to me one day, months ago, and tells me they’ve been molested by another MtF. The molester offers free room and board to other MtF transsexuals and since a lot of trannies are destitute and ostracized from their families and homes, the person talking to me is left little choice but to take what seems to be a very fortunate and generous offer. What they don’t know is that the offer is being dangled out by an abuser, and after getting intoxicated one night was raped by them and another roommate. The video of two sober people taking advantage of a clearly intoxicated person ends up on this person’s blog in a directory called “/sexypics/”, because they’re showing it off to other MtFs.
What you don’t understand about trans people is that they are a huge club, and if you go against the club’s rules, if you cause higher ups in the club problems, you’re out. If you report one of these abusers to the police, you’re disinvited to the club for quite literally being a snitch. Trans people don’t like the police, you see, so talking to the police is snitching. People out of ‘the club’ literally cannot donate their time. A trans person who had committed an offense against more well known trans people was not allowed to volunteer at a trans woman’s shelter because they were known to have reported on abusers to the manager of the shelter.
You call them marginalized, and perhaps they are in some senses, but they’re also very protected. It’s difficult, in the mainstream society, to be offensive to trans people and keep your job. Keep your social media accounts open. Keep your site up and running. It’s easier just to let them do what they want. So when serious violations of human dignity occur, when serious violations of the law occur, where do you go to report that when Facebook will close your account? When Twitter will delete your tweets? When Medium will remove your article? When Reddit and Tumblr mods will ban you? Where do you go to sensationalize a bit of drama you know is important but no one else wants to touch?
You go to an Insane man on the Internet with no assets and his club of bored weirdos. Because he’ll listen. He’ll feature it on the front page on a website that gets hundreds of thousands of views a day, each visitor looking for exactly what you want to give.
You can call out my website for its various problems and offensive nature but until there is actually a place you can speak freely regarding abusers in your sensitive communities it will always be the go-to place."