A sample of the "woke" people that are attacking him:
> And oh, your wife? I lookrd her up Scott and… She’s maybe a 3 on a good day. You know, maybe a 6 at a MAGA rally where all the other chicks are fat midwestern racists. She’s got that TERF Karen look Scott. Let’s be real, you wish you could have bagged one of those hot blondes instead but that’s what you ended up with. I really doubt that’s satusfying enough to keep you from lusting after your younger hotter students. God you’re such a fucking sexist creep.
Sounds like an obvious troll to me (and to some of his other commenters). But he replies in full earnestness to him. Probably a mistake, but I'd still put the blame on the troll rather than the victim.
I mean, sure, you can dismiss the perpetrator(s) of the recent trolling attacks on him as not really being "woke", maybe it's even an "anti-woke" person just pretending to be "woke" in order to make "woke" people look bad. We don't really know what the perpetrator's motivations are, all we can do is guess, and maybe one guess is as good as another.
But what about Amanda Marcotte's vicious public attack on him? (And many other less well-known figures besides). She's now a senior journalist employed by Salon.com, I don't think she can be so easily dismissed as just a "troll"
Such trolls depress me because people will conclude 1) they're real and 2) representative. And then I and my people get blamed for their behavior, even though I'd never do anything like that. sigh
Anyway, what a cesspool. I'd enjoy reading his blog but I don't need that toxicity in my life.
By "my people" I meant trans women, but I'm sure you'd be able to find instances of bonafide trans women saying abusive or hateful things. Regardless, there are trolls, and the comment bore hallmarks of being a troll. But even still, my point is that I don't post hateful things like that, most of the trans people I know are kind people, and reading dehumanizing comment threads like this is incredibly depressing for me.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting you, but your comments give the impression that you think Scott is anti-trans, or when he says “woke” he means trans people. I don’t think that’s true. The term “woke” is used by lots of different people in lots of different ways. Some people view the existence of trans people as a type of “wokeness”, so I can understand how you could have formed the impression that’s (part of) what Scott means by “woke”-but if you read more of what he has to say, I think it will become clear he doesn’t define “woke” in that way at all.
Unless I’m misunderstanding what you are saying. You started talking about “my people” in a conversation about “wokeness”, I thought you were self-identifying as “woke”, and I’m probably not the only one who read you in that way. Now you say by “my people” you meant trans women, which leaves me confused about what you were trying to say all along.
You also speak of a “cesspool” and “dehumanizing comment threads” and I’m wondering what you are actually calling those things and why you are calling them that. Again, I suspect you may have the wrong impression, but I’m not entirely sure what you mean, so maybe my suspicion is based on misunderstanding you.
oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't talking about Scott. I don't have any problem with him. My problem was with some of the comments on Scott's blog, specifically with the (suspected) troll who used degrading and objectifying language to talk about Scott's wife, rating her appearance and calling her a "TERF Karen." There's a stereotype of trans women as violent men shouting down and degrading women by calling them TERFs, which has been used to rile up the public against us (particularly in the UK, see JK Rowling for example.) I assume that was a troll pouring fuel on the fire.
So to sum up, I have nothing against Scott, I'd greatly enjoy meeting him and reading his blog, I just had a bad time in the comments section today.
> And oh, your wife? I lookrd her up Scott and… She’s maybe a 3 on a good day. You know, maybe a 6 at a MAGA rally where all the other chicks are fat midwestern racists. She’s got that TERF Karen look Scott. Let’s be real, you wish you could have bagged one of those hot blondes instead but that’s what you ended up with. I really doubt that’s satusfying enough to keep you from lusting after your younger hotter students. God you’re such a fucking sexist creep.
Sounds like an obvious troll to me (and to some of his other commenters). But he replies in full earnestness to him. Probably a mistake, but I'd still put the blame on the troll rather than the victim.