Message from @Men Are Human
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Operation Canadian BaCon to complain to the CRTC about the CBC's biased coverage before the broadcasting license renewal next year: https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/a6wlgk/happening_operation_canadian_bacon_ii_gamergate/
@Jonathan You should make a version for our own sub
@goodmod @Men Are Human @asparkofpyrokravte @Abbysol @blueorange22 I've been thinking about something today, largely about how activism is conducted.
There are places we can write to or call, contact in some way which do things we don't like (eg. A place that performs infant circumcision) to impress upon them why we think what they are doing with good, logical arguments.
But with that comes those users who, when we call for such activism, will write and call them with angry furvour, insulting and putting people off rather than trying to persuade people, this painting the MRM in a bad light and potentially alienating those from supporting our values.
How do we get around this in our activism efforts?
well whenever we post something here or on reddit, make sure we have a note saying this. like i imagine if we launch a specific effort to call an organization we'd make a reddit post about it, make sure that is highlighted.
I don't think we can post things like that on the Reddit, the admins would hear about it if it became an issue and they'd shut the sub down
really? i think they'd be ok with that, @goodmod is an mod there. they seem pretty open minded
do you mean something like calling representatives or organizations when theres a relevant news story?
No, in the example it was the actual place performing the male genital mutilation, I guess it's unique to some other issues in that there are direct places to contact other than legislators and representatives
i see. yeah, we definitely cant be seen as doing anything that can construed as harassment or trolling. and people have leigitmate cause to be upset, but it has to be controlled
I've thought about writing campaigns.
Another similar example would be say there's a daytime tv show that says some pretty horrendous things about men and you call that tv shows office
Did I tell you guys we got an article taken down?
From menarehuman.com or from Reddit?
@InsaneCaterpilla that's a good idea bte
Men are human did a response article, and I think it caused a brigade on the thing we targeted
Article i was responding to is gone
And it was an old article that they'd likely forgoten about
It was the one about DV shelters
I can't say for sure it was us, but it likely got someone to email them
The article we did got a few shares
wiat, what???? how did it get removed? who removed it????
ohh
i see
This one
you mean the article you responded to was gone
not that our site was somehow messed with
Yep! Article is flat out gone
The one I responded to!
doesnt surprise me. thats why we have to save everything with archive.is
Yep
they tried that with me to for that alimony reform in florida, that 72 year old with alzheimesr
just goes to show how well coordinated/capable they are
I was hoping this would happen, but there's no way to know it was specifically a brigade we caused
and that they can never be trusted to operate in good faith. they will ALWAYS lie and cheat to the end
@blueorange22 Oh? Go on?
What did you do?
This used to have a usatoday article: