BEWARE the new Equiliberty (EQL) Discord
I've decided we're not staying quiet and professional about this afterall
I have very important things to touch upon...once again. Sigh.
Now any of you who know me, know that I HATE drama with a burning passion. I have done my best to stay out of anything that has been happening these past couple of years regarding CC creators and the like. I stay in my lane, I upload my stuff, and I keep moving.
HOWEVER, I would like to bring to light some of the things the head admin of the NEW Equiliberty Izel/Rose/Rosentine (not to be confused with Cath/Jocelyn who is in fact innocent in all of the following proceedings) along with Rose's partner HiredIT/Inky/Inscripted have said about the former staff team consisting of myself, Mark and Elsa. For those who need context, please see This Post: Moving Discord Servers.
Firstly, though, I must touch on Rose's general way of running EQL. Rose would often be absent for months at a time, leaving the rest of the team (consisting of myself, Mark, Elsa and Joc) to run the server, make changes, garner activity and the like. We did what we could, but oftentimes were lacking necessary permissions to effectively keep things running smoothly, especially towards the "end". When Rosentine/Izel would come back, things were immediately thrown to chaos for the rest of us. She would implement ideas and things without consulting the rest of the staff team, ultimately leading to the view that she was "above" the rest of us as the server creator/owner.
Occasionally, her partner, HiredIT/Inscripted, would join the server to help with technical issues and bot permissions. Initially, things were fine with that. The bot they had coded was running smoothly, everything was great. Until it wasn't. Over time, the bot started to degrade and cause more issues than not. Being that it was used for every part of the server, from verifying to downloading, this was a major blow. People could not verify they were "human" to access the server, and would message me in great confusion, wondering what the issue was. I would then have to go in and manually change roles to give them access. This was tedious and time consuming. I have many more gripes with how Rosentine chose to run the server, but those are personal and I would like to keep this to things that I have evidence for, rather than just a long winded rant.
BUT THAT'S NOT THE REASON I SAID BEWARE.
The reason I said so is because Rosentine is currently rebuilding the server in light of her/her partner's own views, which are very much Transphobic, hateful, and bigoted.
NOW I KNOW, a lot of you like to say that Cath/Joc is the hateful one, but I urge you to rethink those views and instead focus your anger on someone who has made their stance on the matter of politics and LGBTQIA+ very clear.
This specifically brings focus on one of EQL's former mods, Mark. Now Mark has always been one to challenge what Rose said in a respectful way. He would bring up good points, play devil's advocate where necessary, and challenge the rest of the team to think about different perspectives and aspects of a problem. That doesn't make him wrong. Rosentine and her partner, Inscripted, decided that because they deemed Mark "untrustworthy" for "challenging authority", that it was appropriate to intentionally misgender him, referring to him only as "she" and "female" despite multiple times Joc stood up and told them that Mark was a dude/male.
Honestly, I feel as if these images speak for themselves with no further context needed. The point remains, that if someone tells you who/what they are, you respect that.
I wish that was all, though. Unfortunately Rosentine and Inscripted spread their beliefs on the "mentally ill" and transgender communities far more broadly.
Inscripted called everyone who suffers from mental illness "unsafe" "insane" and "overgrown babies". Stating that "everything they don't like is dangerous."
He also went so far as to call transgender people "retarded", a word I strongly despise for many reasons.
To top all of this off, Inscripted called me, personally, untrustworthy because of a post that I made on BlueSky regarding USA Politics.
Spoiler alert: I'll tell you to get bent, JUST AS I DID PUBLCLY AND WILL DO SO AGAIN AND AGAIN.
Given how inclusive and diverse the sims community is, I doubt any of you actually want to be a part of this server given their new beliefs and alignments.
The only reason I stayed apart of EQL for the past two years was because I was loyal to Joc, Mark, and Elsa, along with the community we all worked so hard to build. Now, that's gone. Completely erased and replaced with new staff members and new morals. Ones that I do not personally agree with.
Come to your own conclusions as you may, but I've provided all the proof I can.
Love your faces as always, please stay safe out there.
