#fear mongering

[rhinozzryan]

PSA: the guardian is not working on a hit piece on diy hrt, and claims they are are misinformation (see update)

UPDATE: the guardian has published an article referenced by the original 4chan post, which was legitimate. the email continues to be fake. the article appears not to have contacted trans people or under-18s. and the message remains the same: don't talk to journalists about your personal information or history. you can see a recap and response to this publishing here. tl;dr: claims that the guardian's Susanna Rustin is writing a piece on diy hrt and contacting trans people for comment is false.

on the 18th, this post appeared on 4chan's /lgbt/ (slurs in thread: link). a screenshot was posted to reddit, then to tumblr. you've probably seen it:

today, the 23rd, another screenshot popped up on various discord servers, then was reposted variously to twitter. it shows a supposed email from guardian journalist and notorious TERF Susanna Rustin, claiming as the original 4chan post does.

it's now been shared around, and it's with good intentions. the message is useful: don't share your personal information or medical data with journalists, especially ones that happen to be TERFs.

but the post does this through misinformation and fearmongering. i'm still waiting on my response by email from Rustin, but she's reiterated twice (once, twice) that she did not write the email and is not working on such a story. on the 19th, i talked to other guardian newsroom journalists, who said they also did not know of a story's existence.

the moral of the story: this is misinformation, and it's dangerous. it spreads a fine message here, but it does it through spreading anxiety and terror.

you can follow along with this post on my parallel thread on twitter. also calling on @wakewithgiggli to delete their original post!

[ararebreedstory]

Conservatives in the 90's for no reason:

[awesomecooperlove]

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[furiousgoldfish]

abusive parents will act like the world is insanely dangerous place where you get shot on sight as soon as you make a slightest mistake or displease anyone, when in reality the only place where this happens is your parents house

[reality-detective]

[jccheapalier]

Black Woman CONVERTS To Republican Then GOES OFF On Hateful Democrats & ...

[contemplatingoutlander]

Media FAILS On Trump's Most DISGUSTING Rally Yet | Bulwark Take

Donald Trump had his most disgusting rally this weekend, and the media failed to cover it with the scrutiny it deserved.

Must see video about the incredibly authoritarian and xenophobic things that Trump said at a recent rally and how MSM failed to report on it accurately. Tim Miller is a former Republican who explains the danger of the decision by many in the MSM not to report honestly about what Trump says at his rallies.

[liskantope]

It seems to me that more women today than ever before are willing to be single for most of, if not their entire lives, and I'm not entirely sure of the reason. Do you think this is indeed a trend, and if so, why?

I absolutely think it's a trend that younger people in general are more willing to be single for longer periods of time or forever, and I can see a cluster of reasons for this but I think the main one is that we're getting more and more misanthropic in the sense of being afraid of forming connections with other humans. Technological changes as well as social evolution towards more fear-of-daily-occurrences-based mindsets has contributed this. We all still have our deeply-ingrained instincts towards wanting deep connections and to be in a position of taking care of someone, so a bunch of us pour all of those energies into pets, which further makes it harder to find the bandwidth to get a human significant other. (All of this is becoming a severe concern to me personally.)

As for this trend among women specifically, this is less visible to me but I can plausibly believe that women are more likely to fall into this camp of not caring to find a significant other. Reasons for this include a rise of a particular type of misandry that I don't think was prevalent before the 2010's in which men are seen as generally kind of scary and privileged in a way that affects our every move, and the fact that, while everyone a few decades ago was under more social pressure to follow the traditional path of getting married, women had more of that pressure, and maybe in trying to liberate themselves from this gendered expectation there has been some overcorrection.

(I would be very curious about how pet-ownership correlates with gender, actually. My instinct is to imagine that women are more likely to own pets and to put more energy into them, but quick googling gives mixed results.)

Of course, I don't really get why proportionately more women would prefer lifelong singleness rather than partnering with other women (bisexual-identification among women, after all, is shown to be steeply increasing nowadays).

[rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world]

“Anglo neighborhoods” tells you everything you need to know. But watch politicians and the media lie and drum up outrage and fear among those who aren’t paying attention!

As a Jew I’m disgusted by so many of those who claim my culture and religion. This is one of many reasons why. All Jews should be outraged by using our houses of worship as cover for the selling of ethnically-cleansed land, in clear violation of US law AND international law, while hurling racist, Islamophobic epithets and physically assaulting people.

ALL SHIT WE MUST STAND AGAINST IF WE’RE UPHOLDING JEWISH VALUES.

Repost from @savannimalz

“Imagine a world where stolen land is sold to create “Anglo Neighborhoods” and people didn’t go out and say that that was wrong.

Imagine a scenario where these absurdly racist and violent threats were met with no challenge. Those brave enough to stand up to all this are on the right side of history.

No amount smearing them will change that.” -@thesamueltaylor

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And I got information on the ground from @kate_burns_chad who covered the entire event and was assaulted, sexually harassed and targeted.

[theeternalwombtarot]

Community does not need this!! But they’re loud in the comments about how harmful this could be for the community and divination and other spiritual practices and traditions! Thankfully!! I was just talking about spiritual psychosis on my close friends on Instagram yesterday and then I see things like this and post just went viral of some woman absolutely losing it, snot running out her nose and everything over the eclipse.

The fear mongering and demonization of spiritual teachings, astrology, tarot and spiritual practices and traditions is about to start becoming very big. It was already a really prominent thing oppressors have used for ages especially against poc who practice forms of witchcraft or deity worship they brought with them from home. I was just watching a docu-series yesterday that highlighted how the native population on mt. Shasta were forced to leave and practiced ritual and held ceremonies in the caves of mount Shasta and those who colonized would go into those caves after they left and preform mockeries of their ceremonies and rituals as entertainment.

We’re about to step into a reality and time where spiritual people, practitioners and others within the community will be replacing celebrities and individuals of high rank or people who hold a lot of power in this world and I said before that the oppressor has a very specific recipe for oppression and trying to keep people (especially in the west) as unaware and as stuck in perpetual karmic cycles and systems as much as possible. And this is just yet another technique they use to discredit individuals with gifts. They use psychics and astrologers and others themselves to help them predict and interpret what’s coming.

They use these types of stories or ideas to fuel radical religious beliefs and ideas that are built upon fear mongering and hatred, they use religious institutions and manipulated versions of their Bible and beliefs and create division within the west. Vast majority of republicans are statistically uneducated and are conservative who hold onto heavy religious beliefs and views to back up, support and justify their actions and beliefs. Heavily similar to antebellum America and the justification of slavery and the mistreatment of African American people.

To add onto that, this movie about tarot does not accurately portray what tarot really is and how it works whatsoever but guess who’ll believe it and perpetuate it. Half the negative ideas that are swirling around about metaphysical, Wiccan or spiritual practices are due to pop culture and horror movies and the individuals who sit at their desks in the dark scribbling away these plots and releasing these movies.

[vintagenews]

Source and details.

[furiousgoldfish]

abusive parent: The 'Real World' is a dangerous, savage place where you stand no chance of survival

me: Yes, but only because you live here

[reality-detective]

A Russian State media outlet, citing Russian law enforcement officials, reports that Ukrainian Armed Forces are planning to detonate a dirty nuclear bomb and the potential targets are storage sites at power plants. 🤔

[dougielombax]

I’ve noticed something.

Something troubling.

Far too many IDIOTS in my own country think that this is it.

The proverbial It.

The end.

As in the Final End.

That human history and mankind will end in the next 25 to 100 years and that there is nothing we can do.

This is NOT so!

But!

They are so convinced that this is true, as if it were some predestined cosmic fate for us! And that we “deserve” it.

They make it sound as if they’re looking FORWARD to it! The stupid geese!

As if they want us to stop making the world a better, safer, place for everyone and everything, instead they think we ought to just lay down and DIE!

Perish the thought!

Disgusting, fatalistic bullshit!

Stupid, senile, Calvinist-minded, defeatist HOGWASH!!!!!

I am BEYOND sick of it!

The least we can do is DEMAND better.

Starting YESTERDAY!

I’m sick of this fatalistic, cowardly, nihilistic doomerist BULLSHIT!!!!

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