my issue is that when a large group of furries, led by a prominent account, started a months long harassment campaign against trans women dedicated to driving several off the site i saw no pushback from the broader fandom. the most i saw was generic "why are we doing discourse, can't we just stop?"

Yeah, you've nailed it. I suspect that latter scenario is a huge part of what drives CW discourse on Mastodon a lot of the time.

Here's some DISCOURSE for you Interracial porn is great Racialized porn makes me uncomfortable "Here's some people fuckin, whatever color they are" 👍 "Tiny white twink obliterated by..." please stop

I need to find the melee people on this app. can't fully transition until I'm seeing more rectangle discourse than I want to.

A lot of online Leftist discourse boils down to loudly signaling political goals, doing nothing to bring them about & then blaming everyone else for failing to provide an adequately pure world to fix.

everytime moronic filipinos on twitter engage in diaspora mainlander discourse, a cia agent gets a bonus

As someone who was there when the deep magics were written: the former The norms are poorly-documented, so you not only end up with people not knowing why they came about, you end up with multiple conflicting narratives about their origins and all discourse on it that might help clarify is lost.

So so so SO much left political discourse I see on tumblr right now can be boiled down to two people who are allergic to nuance calling the other person irredeemable inhuman scum, unaware or apathetic that they agree on a solid 95% of their views. How are we gonna get fucking anything done?

Oh, I don't mean in academic linguistics—I have no idea what's going on in there! I mean in broad everyday political and social discourse in Sri Lanka and South Asia generally, where it is a major force in both formal policy and informal ideas about (un)relatedness, descent/primacy, and belonging.

We are called the Democratic Party because we value democracy. We would never want to win by taking illegal foreign assistance in the form of disinformation poisoning the national discourse, or by purging legitimate voters from the rolls. That's why we oppose your anti-democratic party.