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And like just so it gets said: *part* of the damage of reblogging innocuous posts that were written by TERFs (or REGs) are because often, they aren’t actually innocuous. You just missed the tip-off. The secret buzzword.

Just because you didn’t recognize the violent language doesn’t mean the target didn’t.

So what happens is, you reblog a post that looks like a chill positivity post – and a trans person, or a bi person, or an NB person, or an ace or aro person, now has violent targeted language on their dash that you mistook for being just pro-woman or pro-gay. Language THEY recognize and are wounded by. Language that reminds them that people who hate them are all around them.

So it’s not even purely an issue of “no platforming” shitheads – checking the OP and not reblogging TERFs is also a security measure against sharing violent language that you don’t recognize yourself.

this is a big part of why “stealing this post bc OP was a terf” is just comical levels of Missing The Fucking Point

Good posts to steal from TERFs: software tips, cute animal appreciation, screencaps and transcriptions of general-interest offsite content (although if it’s a Twitter thread or something go over it with a fine-toothed comb, and if it’s a news article check that it’s not from a dodgy source.)

Bad posts to steal from TERFs: anything to do with intracommunity discourse or gender and sexuality. Honestly, why risk it? Even if the thesis is a super obvious idea like “patriarchy exists” they’ll have found some way to plant some fucking creepy coded message in it.