This is the first and last time I'll be addressing this post, about a year ago some people started compiling a document of comments I made on Reddit from 7+ years ago and my old tumblr blog, the following thread I will address them
https://brodie-robertson.pages.dev/
Yes I used to make a lot of racist comments and throw around slurs, yes I was homophobic, yes I was transphobic, at the time I was absolutely a hateful person. This was a long time ago and anyone who knows me now knows that I have changed since then
Do I still make jokes amongst my close friends, absolutely, and that will likely never change
Yes I took part in early GamerGate and I was there from the very start when the focus was on ethics in games journalism, but it also resulted in many of the comments from earlier in the post
I mostly stepped away from politics discussions as I don't find it to be a healthy past time for me to personally get involved in, I tend to obsess over things and that can get quite destructive.
Yes I ran a hentai blog on tumblr, yes I made comments saying that UN shouldn't get involved in censoring loli content, I felt at the time that this would be a slippery slope, it seems in retrospect I was right with some of that same discourse now being used on trans people
Yes I was absolutely porn brained out of my mind as a late teenager and early 20's, yes I talked about the porn tags I liked publically, yes I watch step sibling porn, yes I hung out on sexting subreddits
I feel like into my mid and late 20's I've grown as a person but that has only been possible thanks to people being willing to look past the past and see me for the person that I am now.
As for the unimportant things, yes I joke about being discount Luke Smith, if you go back and watch the early videos you'd see it was literally just a copy of his style. I never actively avoided Youtube, I spin up accounts on every new platform that people are talking about, if they go nowhere then I ultimately leave
Yes I said don't go and make issues on the Wayland repo in my name not so that my name would "not be included" because I don't want people to go and spam the repo, keep that in my comments section
Yes I went on Lunduke's show with Distrotube, if you watched it you'd see I was constantly disagreeing with him as I continue to do so following that when I quote tweet his posts. I think the only way you can change someone's mind is by having an open discourse with them
Yes I've had Vaxry on the podcast a couple of time, yes I've had Andreas Kling on, yes I made a video on Omarchy, there problems are there problems, a healthy functioning community should be able to discuss disagreements they have with each other.
Yes I watch Joe Rogan and Asmongold, I also watch FriendlyJordies and sometimes Hasan, do I agree with every take they have no absolutely not, but I think a healthy adult should watch and read things they don't completely agree with
Apparently one of my podcast guests happens to use KiwiFarms, I don't do a deep background check on every single person I bring on, if they're making something cool, I'm happy to talk with them.
One of the comments I made on r/Anime was "IT'S RAPING TIME!!" this was in reference to a series called Cross Ange, if you've seen it then you fully understand why I made that comment
I'm not going to tell you what your take should ultimately be but I'm going to just keep doing my thing.