#including things as milquetoast as ''secularism is a prerequisite for a functioning democracy'' which is just a fact | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

opha · 7 months ago

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has anyone noticed the religious side of tumblr getting increasingly weird and regressive since the porn ban? i know a lot of us had an eye on the evangelical xtian explosion here, but i now see a pretty uniform resurgence of the sentiment that you can't vocally hate/disrespect/even disbelieve a religion for any reason, sometimes extending to the point of thoughtcrime-ifying privately held convictions, even among leftists

#maybe i'm just following the wrong people but...#idk. some wank about sexualizing nuns on twitter reminded me about how it would've gone over way better on tumblr #bc things here have gone very strange in some places #i notice it most often riding on the coattails of cultural xtianity discourse which is its own can of worms #not bc cultural xtianity isn't real but bc it's used as a gotcha against virtually anyone with a take perceived as antireligious #including things as milquetoast as ''secularism is a prerequisite for a functioning democracy'' which is just a fact #(the one who said that was an indian atheist talking about the hindutva movement aiming to expel non-hindus-but-mostly-muslims from india)#(but swaths of jumblr immediately assumed it was about israel and started quoting martin luther at his most antisemitic at them)#(nobody apologized when corrected. this was years before oct 7)

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