The first tweet is precisely why any honest person would conclude he's transphobic: those were private accounts and he abused his power as CEO to get that information. He publicly outed her out of pure transphobic spite, presumably hoping that Twitter's merry bands of transphobes would dogpile her there and everywhere else they could find her. (I also heard that he repeatedly misgendered her in a now-deleted Tumblr post, but I couldn't find a screenshot.)
"You can't proooove that he's transphobic, and you can't prooooove that he outed her because he wanted transphobes to harass her" yeah well we're not in court, this is a social matter. I am an individual human who has to make low-information judgments about other members of my species, and my low-information judgment of Mullenweg is that he's a transphobe. It is impossible for me to see an honest argument to the contrary. I am aware that dishonest arguments come quite easily:
- "innocent before proven guilty!"
- "what about the tweet where he said 'trans people are okay I guess'"
- "that was 8 months ago, when he was a wee 40-year-old lad, he's grown since then"
But considering Mullenweg is a horrifically bad person in many other areas of his life, I am quite confident he also sucks when it comes to civil rights.
As you most likely know, the context of that first tweet was Matt correcting disinformation about Tumblr moderation that was being spread on Twitter by that user. There's no indication that in doing so, Matt was acting on transphobic intent nor that he is any sort of bigot. Nor is there any evidence of the purported misgendering that has apparently been cranked out of the rumor mill.
It's quite funny that you doubled down with a feels over reals argument though. Just shows that deep down, you know you're throwing around spurious allegations.
"You can't proooove that he's transphobic, and you can't prooooove that he outed her because he wanted transphobes to harass her" yeah well we're not in court, this is a social matter. I am an individual human who has to make low-information judgments about other members of my species, and my low-information judgment of Mullenweg is that he's a transphobe. It is impossible for me to see an honest argument to the contrary. I am aware that dishonest arguments come quite easily:
- "innocent before proven guilty!"
- "what about the tweet where he said 'trans people are okay I guess'"
- "that was 8 months ago, when he was a wee 40-year-old lad, he's grown since then"
But considering Mullenweg is a horrifically bad person in many other areas of his life, I am quite confident he also sucks when it comes to civil rights.