(can I ask what the great NB split was?)
One rather large pro-ship blog (who's got dragged for other problematic stances and hot takes before on their last account) posted some blatantly transmed shit and another blog posted an untagged vent about how sick they were of seeing pro-shippers letting this exclusionist shit slide in our community just because they can dish some shit out to the antis. Suffice it to say a whole lotta nuts got shaken off the tree after that and I've blocked at least seven big blogs as a result.
It's like what one post I came across recently said: pro ship exclusionists make less sense than inclusionist antis. They can fully grasp and write ten page essays on why fiction doesn't effect reality and how writing is a healthy way of expressing emotions and desires, yet they can't understand that gender is not a binary. Trans people are not binary. Hell, the transmed that started the whole issue isn't even trans themselves, so I dunno why they were even in that convo anyway π
My theory is such people have glomped onto this as an acceptable way to talk shit about them uppity liberals and get away with it. Antis have taken shit up to level 11 especially when VLD was in first run that such exclusionist lingo could go unnoticed. The constant use of SJW in regards to fandom anti rhetoric is as much a red flag as a Lance lesbian flag* icon is for antis.
*or Glimmer icons, since antis canceled VLD. Allegedly.
Sadly after that dust up and people claiming to be anti truscum, many of them went right back to reblogging from that person and others in that circle. I guess that caring for real people more than fiction only applies to the other side, huh? π
We say pro-ship, but it really ought to be pro-fandom. Specifically, it should be the safe space it's always been for marginalized people: not just queer people, but PoC and the disabled to explore and express themselves too. I admittedly don't know much about fandom racism personally despite being black since this isn't something that comes up in anime circles. But I have seen the evolution of about people's thought on yaoi(tm) (LJ joke that carbon dates me) go from having to warn for yaoi/slash in a fic no matter how minor to fandom now warning for depictions of homophobia and writing about queer experiences beyond being cis gay and lesbian.
Maybe if we did that, the fake wokesters on our side will crawl back to the Chan boards they have far more in common with.