@ReeTardyOswald's comment on ':!marseybutterfree: Bluesky has bullied a Black intellectual off the platform, or the snake eats its tail :marseyouroboros:'

https://bsky.app/profile/previously.blue/post/3kx4yujggoo2y

Jamelle Bouie, a prominent writer and popular early member of bluesky, who has faced criticism on bluesky for his connections to the NYTimes, has de-activated his account.

First and foremost, there's a list of evil bullies, which is coincidentally a list of insane ideologues :marseytranspearlclutch:

The immediate casus belli here is that a former book review editor turned opinion writer did a transphobia in the NYT. :marseysouthernbelle5:

You need to be logged in (this will be a theme), but here's a big post. You know exactly what the replies are like:

pamela paul really might be one of the worst motherlovers alive, she writes shit specifically to get cited in conservative lawsuits to ban gender affirming care

I have never heard of this chick so I looked her up on Wikipedia. Shockingly, I don't believe her first marriage to Bret "Bedbug" Stephens or her book, "The Starter Marriage and the Future of Matrimony," qualifies her to know a goddarn thing about transgender healthcare.

Bouie wrote about how trans genocide is bad and trans people decided to get mad at him for working for Transmisia Inc. Typical reaction to him blocking someone:

i love writing about a minority group i dont belong to and then responding to extremely tame criticism from a member of that group like this

There's a million sad posts like:

I see the fricking nimrod caucus on here has run off another prominent Black figure. awesome work guys

ah good job everyone, you fricked up and bullied jbouie off the platform. One of the very few reasonable voices of authority on this site. this is why we can't have nice things

Frick every single one of you who bullied Jamelle Bouie from this app. What the heck is wrong with you?

Some people are happy with themselves tho :smugtranstwitter:

burn down nyt btw. jbouie ur column sucks shit and ur an intellectual coward. frick that piece of shit rag

Or conflicted:

The thing I do for a living is criticize the NYT for their transgender coverage. I do not support anyone calling for Jamelle Bouie or any other trans supportive writer to quit. Unfollow me if you like. End of.

I mean, the way they're going I would like to see the NYT run out of business, so I would like to see Bouie get a different job to not get caught up in that, but I'm not gonna support going after someone for being the one bright light in a dark place.

100 percent this

This is super scattered but ~everyone is using this as an opportunity to get sad about bullies and have a meta-chat about the platform, so search around:

there's a problem on this site that i don't think anyone is ready to talk about, including me, but it's been pretty obvious from the beginning and has only been getting worse

P.S. this is probably a nothingburger, reports are in that he deactivated for normal reasons:

I don't want to speak for Jamelle, but I literally just saw him at his podcast thing at the Metrograph and he mentioned that he deactivated in advance of going on vacation. People are making a whole lot of assumptions right now.

This is good but also the fact that so many black people have been run off this site the immediate instinct is to believe that happened again is TELLING. Y'all preach inclusivity and coalition building but you don't even come close to practicing what you preach. White echo chambers are bad actually!