The myth of the harmless sysmed
There is a certain myth that has been propagated recently by syscourse neutrals and unaligneds, as well as some sysmeds themselves.
This is the myth of the good sysmed. The harmless anti-endo. See, this sysmed isn't like all the others. This sysmed isn't harassing endogenic systems. They just slap an anti-endo banner on their blog, and insist that endogenic systems not interact with them.
The core of this position is "bigotry is only harmful when that bigotry directly leads you to personally harassing people."
But respectfully, that's not how that works!
Bigotry is harmful because it's bigotry. Even in the absence of harassment.
Hatred and exclusionism towards endogenic systems is itself the problematic behavior.
The suggestion that endogenic systems should just accept and be comfortable with people spreading disinformation and hateful rhetoric about us just because they are better than the ones who are directly harassing us is incredibly insulting to endogenic systems!
There is no such thing as an anti-endo who doesn't harm endogenic systems.
No, they might not directly harass us. But they do normalize the hatred against us. Simply putting anti-endo in your pinned helps to normalize and validate those that do hate us. Having us in your DNI helps to normalize exclusionism.
And not just from the traumagenic anti-endo systems either, but also from singlets. There is no shortage of stories of endogenic and mixed origin system who have been banned from Discord servers that are completely unrelated to system stuff, with singlet mods, because of hatred and bigotry spread by sysmeds.
Even if you only express your anti-endo views in private, you are still spreading them. You spread hate and disinformation towards endogenic systems to a friend, then they spread it to another friend, then that friend makes a TikTok about it, then that TikTok is viewed by a singlet who happens to run an autism server, and then they decide to ban endogenic systems because of the hate and disinformation they heard, leading to endogenic and mixed origin systems in that server losing their safe space because of this bigotry!
Every ounce of hatred and bigotry towards endogenic systems that is put into the world harms every single endogenic system!
Simply being a sysmed is inherently harmful to endogenic systems.