From time to time, I've tried to trace the evolution of the trans movement, and found that while it's been around in leftist culture since even the 70s, it was extremely obscure till recently. Julia Serano's essay in the 2007 book "Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape" could be seen as representing the earliest moment of the sjw intersectional movement we know today, but still it remained incredibly obscure until Tumblr started gaining attention in 2011.
This is why I was surprised when I was, for other reasons, reviewing the Zathlazip 2008 SA post. Zathlazip was an SA member who went to the feminist sci-fi convention Wiscon and posted pictures of its horrors to SA. It's messing with my head that she mentions trannies in the title and in the post because I could have sworn there was no such mention in the past. Maybe I just mentally brushed it off at the time because "trannies, lol", but inserting trans people into the past where they didn't exist is totally the kind of thing that could happen these days. The entire article seems suspiciously anachronistic, since it matches the culture war since 2011 so closely.
Edit: In case it isn't clear, I'm suggesting that the archived page of the 2008 Zathlazip post has been deliberately rewritten to match the culture war zeitgeist of ~2013, and specifically to add trans people to the story. I swear I don't remember trans people being mentioned in that post before.
Edit edit: Well, nevermind. The SJW web at the time freaked out about this and those posts seem to confirm that trans people were part of the drama.
http://theangryblackwoman.com/2008/05/28/what-rachel-moss-did/
(Angry Black Woman was the site that NK Jemisin used to post to)
huh..Always wondered when SJWs first came to Something Awful.
Does anyone else remember this?
https://web.archive.org/web/20080605052159/http://sass.buttes.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=19144&p=1
Owned by Taylor Lorenz’s uncle, so no.
From one of my first comments here:
Do not support archive.org. It is an extention of the left, with all or nearly all of their C-level being compromised in some way.
From https://archive.org/about/bios.php
Bolding mine
(note that is is probably the LEAST damming of the associations here)
(from alexisrossi.com: Volunteer activities: Code of Conduct Lead, Decentralized Web Summit and Dweb Camp Advisory Board, Open GLAM Advisory Board, The Commons Initiative)
This is the just the information I found out just going to their bio page. Some of the organizations mentioned that are not bolded might also be leftist orgs. There is probably much more if you comb over their personal blogs and twitters.
Archive has always been compromised. NBC was never going to allow the Archive to expose their lies.
Ownership issues aside, the Wayback Machine has on multiple occasions pulled down archives of pages that people found ... inconvenient. While it is still somewhat useful, any archive that removes content when people ask them to inherently untrustworthy.
I fully expect them pulling down pages. What I was worried about though was that pages could be censored or rewritten rather than deleted.
The Wayback Machine disappeared Kiwi Farms' entire Internet history supposedly.
There is no such thing as a trustworthy institution these days. KiA2.win is not trustworthy. Even if it were, we could get hacked and leak your password, e-mail and IP-address. So act as though there is nothing that can be trusted, because nothing these days can be.
Wayback is useful, but 'trustworthy', obviously not. Removes Taylor Lorenz tweets. It is good as a backup for Archive.is, which is run by God knows who, and which may disappear from the internet any moment. Wayback has institutional organization behind it, and will likely survive longer into the future.
use https://archive.ph/
wayback machine is crap. I only use it as a backup for research.
nothing is trustworthy, everything has various degrees of utility