Wow, a lot happened since I had a chance to read this.
@Field Marshal Crappenberg - you might want to change the bit about Nina being a "native Indian" to something like "Indian national" or "citizen of India", so casual ICE readers don't mix it up with "Native American".
That's quite logical. I'll do that, thanks!
Shouldn't not allowing cisgender people to operate the phones be considered discrimination?
Actually, I have pondered whether TLL is guilty of gender discrimination according to state or federal law. TLL being a special interest non-profit may or may not exempt them from otherwise applicable anti-discrimination laws. If they actually have many paid operators now (though they're not doing anything obviously), they could be subject to employment laws. I haven't had a chance to research the matter, but it's definitely something worth pursuing. Laws which would apply which include the "gender identity" class would protect cisgender people from discrimination I assume.
btw this post reading TTL was reblogged by linkara-
http://atopfourthwall.tumblr.com/post/153251544448
Ahh, the post they linked to was LordHaurchefant's
first broadside. Bitch is behind the times. He wrote a
Part 2 which alas seemed to get little attention. He also wrote on the
Waite suicide and a
rebuttal to TLL's Medium
article which responded to his first one (TLL disabled their comments). I need to go over all of it again at some point. I hope he's not getting more angry messages now.
Blogs like this really piss me off. I didn't spend almost 5k of my own money because I hate transexuals, or have some personal vendetta against Greta (I don't even know the person, really).
5 grand?! Oh, was most of that from changing numbers every time?
I like how they put that tll has since realized the number of suicides on election night were fabricated, but mentions nothing of the lie that the orge said he had reached out to those 8 or 9 families.
@Field Marshal Crappenberg: you'll probably want to add this admission without explanation to your final report!
Oh, yes. Unless I'm thinking of a different post, please correct me. However, I looked at the screenshot of the comment from TLL which I think people are referring to. I don't have it or a link handy to demonstrate, but the language was they expressed
a desire to speak to the families, and NOT that they already had.
There's an associated accusation that they deliberately kept promulgating that myth despite it being debunked. I haven't come across anything to demonstrate that, so if it exists and someone has it, please provide it.
I'm going to be on The Dick Show with Dick Masterson on Sunday and I want to tell the story of TLL because I think it our story going from poo to poo in the loo reaches across lines and manages to be interesting, sad, upsetting and funny at the same time.
Okay, I will switch my approach and start editing it immediately, rather than continue researching and tagging the remaining third of my previous draft and overhauling the whole article simultaneously. I'll get the most impactful sections and incidents on there ASAP. I'll also remove the fragments on there now which are irrelevant and counterproductive.
What time is the interview scheduled? I have an engagement tomorrow afternoon/evening I cannot cancel, but I'll shorten it somewhat. I'll work on it overnight into Sunday if I have to in order to rush-complete it.
Is this ever going to fucking stop? I am so absolutely sick and tired of fighting. I just want to grieve in peace. Fuck you for making me come at this over and over again, Greta.
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The reporter might actually be very struck by that response and wonder whether he's being told the truth about TLL. Certainly, if the reporter looks at the evidence, Greta doesn't appear likeable at all. Hopefully he'll ask to talk to someone at KF as well, though we look guilty as fuck to people who lack knowledge of our culture and membership. KF tends to ridicule rather than encourage outright harassment and abuse, and people who get threads tend to deserve them for being bad or idiotic people.
Also, on the Waite subject, it seemed the source of the harassment was 4chan rather than KF. Null himself mocked the people leaving antagonistic comments. I also remember her not being made common knowledge here before her suicide. I think she was on someone's radar for a while and maybe was mentioned once publicly. 99% of us only heard of her after her death, so we couldn't have been responsible for her bullying even if we would have wanted to do it.
Lol, Gretas big plan to get back at KF is to have Vice do a story. Any reporter worth the title would look into why TLL doesn't answer calls 89% of the time and use donations to fund a non-stop travel and vacations.
The TLL debacle seems to be tangential to the reporter's main mission and focus, unfortunately, so he may not be interested in hearing all the ways TLL is a scam. I would hammer home the point Greta acted like a total twat in this and that we rallied behind her, and that might get the reporter curious enough to change directions to TLL, especially if he was contacted by TLL/Greta first.