#but there's a reason [something]phobic is a popular joke on tumblr

[g0nta-g0kuhara]

The thing about Kiibo's robophobia bit that always stuck out to me was the fact that it doesn't even work as the bigoted joke it's supposed to be.

Like the "joke" is supposed to be that Kiibo is overly sensitive and "triggered" by barely implied slights against him as a robot, and while it is executed this way a handful of times, more often than that the other characters are genuinely being discriminatory against him for being a robot. To which he reacts fairly proportionally, or sometimes even brushes off. Like. They completely fucked up their own bad joke when they made the other characters actually bigoted against him for being a robot.

[pastryjay]

I wish people would understand that their attempts at being ‘woke' are usually useless at best or hurtful, often to minorities at worst. I honestly think that most people on here who preach about politics and wanting to prove how awful some people are don't care at all about helping people.

I have 4 main points/ examples to make about this. i'm sorry I couldn't put a read more break, I can only use Tumblr mobile.

1. Children dying is never something to want or celebrate

Sometimes people enjoy celebrating the deaths of bad people e.g. terrible politicians and billionaires. That in itself is not a bad thing, those who knowingly exploit others are often better off dead. This does not make it okay to wish death on anyone who is even remotely connected to bad people. A recent popular tumblr post saw a user celebrating the deaths of billionaires except that wasn't all they were doing. One of the events they celebrated was posted with this screenshot:

Yes. A person was knowingly celebrating the real deaths of two children along with other people on the flight e.g the pilots just because 1 (one) person on board was a billionaire. That is fucked up and you should agree. Similarly i've seen people explicitly saying they think the children of the British Royal family should be beheaded because of the family they were born into. Yes the British Royals have a host of issues too and i'm not a fan of them but that's never a reason to wish for toddlers to be literally brutally murdered, you sick fucks! Don't hate people for the family they were born into. I wouldn't hate a gay friend after I found out their father is homophobic. A child is never responsible or should be made to suffer for a parent's shitty actions.

2. Stop pretending bad things don't happen to fit a narrative.

Look. Minorites/ women aren't always perfect and good people, claiming they are both erases the experiances of victims of abuse and puts more people at risk by entertaining the idea of no danger.

Calling abuse 'straight culture' is bad because not only is abuse not a problem exclusive straight couples but lgbt couples are more likely to face abuse. I'm not straight and I don't give a shit about hurting straight people's feelings but acting like lgbt folks can't be abusive and don't face abuse in their relationships is partly why abuse is more common for us. If we don't know to look out for abuse, we may not know how to avoid it. Abuse in lgbt relationships is a genuine problem that shouldn't be ignored for jokes. People being abused shouldn't be joked about at all.

The same applies to thinking you're woke by treating all women as good and pure and all men evil and bad. Not all abusers are men and not all victims are women. In the UK more than 40% of domestic violence victims are men. But even the govenrment ignores this to some extent and treat male victims as lesser. There are 7,500 refuge places for women in England and Wales but only 60 for men and men are arrested and prosecuted at a disproportionately higher rate.

3. Don't focus on hating people who hurt others when you could be helping those who have been hurt.

There is way too much focus on calling out and hating people who do bad things e.g. are lgbt-phobic, racist or abusive compared to helping those who were hurt by that person/ group. Don't get me wrong, those who are bigoted deserve to be told they are wrong and should be punished and you can both call out people while helping those hurt... but most don't. If your only way of 'helping' trans people is calling out J.K Rowling, you're not helping. If your only way of 'helping' black people in response to police brutality is posting 'fuck the police' to tumblr then although your message is not wrong, you're not helping. If you hear that an individual or group has been hurt, your first thought always should be 'how can I help them?' Your response to hearing how black people are treated should have more focus on supporting black owned businesses, getting help for victims, listening to black people, supporting black creators, if you can donate to those who need it, support black politicians/ those who want to make a change e.c.t. That all does way more to help than just hating people, even though they deserve it.

4. You don't ever get a free pass to be racist, lgbt-phobic or a general asshole because someone did (or might do) something bad.

Never, ever insult someone's natural appearance, physical or mental disabilites, sexuality, gender/ gender identity, religion or weight because you don't like them. If a gay person said something racist, call them out for it but that is not an opportunity to call them a homophobic slur or attack their sexuality. Their sexuality is irrelevant to the argument and being homophobic in response simply makes you homophobic and no less homophobic than if it was directed at someone for no reason. I don't care if an overweight, unattractive person did something bad, don't insult their weight. All that does is show everyone else who is overweight that their weight is something bad enough to deserve shaming for. In the end acting like this hurts more people than it helps. I remember a post going round which involved a picture of two fat people and the OP decided to take the photo and post it with insulting comments because apparently they 'looked like Trump supporters'. No evidence, no reason, just judging based off their weight and looks. That's not woke, that's awful.

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Anyways there are a host of other problems with internet 'wokeness'. These are just four points I don't see much concern about. All four are caused by people who use a being woke as an excuse to be horrible to others. They don't care about the cause they're supposed to be fighting for, they either simply enjoy being horrible and want a way of getting away with it or want to look good without much effort.

In general people need to put more effort into supporting and helping people than putting others down.