#<- user still has faith in the platonic ideal of a community warning despite everything and everything else

[catacini]

[THIS POST IS IN RESPONSE TO A POPULAR POST THAT'S GOING AROUND CURRENTLY]

speaking as someone who is still traumatized by the effects of being called out siiix? years ago? it is meaningful for callouts to exist and it's important to be both able and willing to prevent new people from being victimized by rapists and pedophiles. i do not buy the argument that because a callout doesn't materially help previous victims that nobody should ever give a fuck about protecting other people. i do not buy the argument that, just because an artist isn't actively beating people to death, that nobody would want to know they draw n*zi shit before reblogging their tamer work. you need to find a way to balance that with critical thinking and cost-benefit analysis so that you don't accidentally help target vulnerable people that are being intentionally isolated and abused.

my callout was specifically written to target and punish me. my best friend was being abused, and when i confronted her abuser, that abuser went above and beyond to make me regret it. there was zero intention of helping people and zero desire to protect anybody. they went out of their way to contact a blog with a high outreach to publish it, just to make sure everyone i knew would see it. no one gained anything from this. Even so, i think the people who published it, shared it, and blocked me were right to do so. had it been true, it would have protected a lot of people. all my empathy to anyone else being targeted under a similar premise (if anyone wants my empathy anyway given my reputation, lol) because i do know exactly what it's like to be deemed a pedophile by this site. but the answer is not to just stop giving a shit altogether.