#puritanical politics

[commiepinkofag]

The 'Kids Online Safety Act' [KOSA] continues to move forward

Microsoft now endorses this legislation, which will likely help garner political support. Help counter this bill!

HELP STOP KOSA

Contact your representatives

KOSA is a bipartisan bill introduced to censor content on the internet deemed 'inappropriate' for minors. This bill is intended to target the LGBTQIA+ community and otherwise cause harm to minors.

Access to any supportive resources like queer-youth support groups, suicide hotlines, and important health information can be targeted.

[auressea]

please SHOW up to make your support for Good Sex Ed, and access to information about gender and orientation in schools. keep the SOGI fearmongers out of our schools.

BUT ALSO- this 'protest'- is a smoke screen for VIOLENT TRANSPHOBES to push their DeSantis style agenda.

This is the thin edge of the wedge people! They will slippery slope their way into YOUR neighborhood.

while you're at it: go to the MANY MANY websites and FB pages by these White Supremacist Authoritarian bigots and the Christian Rightwingers who love them and REPORT them for hate speech:

here's something about the 1 million march 4 children thing (the nationwide(?) anti-lgbt education marches/demonstrations(?)) - counter protests are being organised! here's an instagram post about it: https://www.instagram.com/p/CxHTWihOLBV/

and as mentioned in the post a master doc of counter-protests can be found at bit.ly/protestlist

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[mywitchcultblr]

If you are an American artist/fan, change your pixiv account region! Because there's new censorship

Number 5. If your drawing has no 'educational/scientific/artistic value' it won't be allowed to exist. These new censorship are absolute nonsense pushed by credit card company and conservative politicians. Fucking bonkers

It's the same thing when Tumblr banned NSFW and they promised that 'artistic nudity' will still be 'allowed'. I hope every purist on the internet realized that when they whine over anime fan art they are repeating what conservative billionaires and politician are pushing:

The death of art...

[crimeronan]

it's always wild to me when horror media about varying new england puritan witch trials is predicated on "but what if there actually ARE witches and supernatural things?? that's the scary bit!! oooooOOOOoooo evil women, oooOOooo demons, OOOOO ghoooosts"

as if.... like.... the most compelling thing about it all ISN'T that there Were No Fucking Witches. and that puritans would kill people unprovoked for absolutely no reason except maintaining power/control.

HOW IS THAT NOT THE MOST INTERESTING HORROR TO YOU.

[rad-hound]

"KOSA is dead in the House."

[SOURCE]

RAW TEXT:

Breaking news: The House Republican leadership won’t bring up the children’s online safety bill that the Senate passed with 91 votes on Tuesday.

A House GOP leadership aide told us this about KOSA: “We’ve heard concerns across our Conference and the Senate bill cannot be brought up in its current form.”

This is a big blow to the effort, which is spearheaded by Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.). And it comes just a week after Speaker Mike Johnson told us he’d “like to get [KOSA] done.”

— Andrew Desiderio, Max Cohen and John Bresnahan

[alvie-pines]

tbh i feel like people who describe themselves as pro-kink and anti-censorship in media & fandom, and even admit that they share the values of the proship label, but get up all on their high horse about how "calling yourself proship is stupid, im not silly enough to think that fandom discourse matters" are just assholes.

like hey, it matters to me--because its a subculture and hobby space ive been heavily involved in most of my life, and i value having a hobby i can enjoy without having to see conservative values espoused constantly. if i see conservative values being espoused in my subculture, i will align myself against those values. and if my subculture has words for the stances in question, i will use them, because this is the language of the subculture and using it within said subculture is a quick way to communicate a set of ideas.

also really bold of these people to assume that my aligning myself with the 'proship' label means im too stupid to see that the ideas im against exist in larger society. like REALLY fucking bold. i dont know if ive posted about it, but i know i talk with my irl friends about how fandom is a microcosm of usamerican society and anti vs proship discourse is thus a microcosm of the encroaching conservative values in our society. im TRANS, how could i not notice the correlations?

it feels like all of this flows directly from the idea that fandom is a silly, daft, unintelligent hobby and to use the language of fandom to describe your ideas, even within fandom spaces, marks you as stupid and silly.

of course, you don't have to use the proship label, especially if you're not involved in fandom--but calling everyone who does stupid is not a good fucking look. implying that those who use it cant possibly understand the greater political forces at play in our lives is even worse. dare i say, kind of misogynist, even. part of the reason modern fandom (starting with trek) is consistently dismissed as stupid and vapid is because its always been, and still is, a heavily female-dominated space, right? thats something we've agreed on for a while, right? so why is it okay to mock fandom terms and people who participate in fandom as soon as this topic comes up?

[montgomeryscotch]

you kids would have never survived the early 2000s.

[houseofpurplestars]

Remember That Time Bill Clinton Fired The Only Black Woman Surgeon General for Suggesting Sex Education, Only A Year After He Appointed Her?

[sixpossumsinaclownsuit]

Remember kiddos, polygamy and polyamory was only demonized for four core reasons:

Tw: homophobia, sexism, religious commentary, political commentary, oppression

1.) America wanted more taxes

Part of the legal institutionalization of marriage is that there is tax benefits for the individual parties when they get married, and financial ties/power is attorney between married people. It becomes messy when these ties extend to multiple people/marriages and the I*RS wants they tax money, and America would rather just make an entire way of life illegal than make laws and systems that accommodate people. See point #4 for more on that

2.) Puritan culture (aka thinly veiled sexism)

Puritan culture relies heavily on systems of control that villainize sex and women (that's a whole other conversation but I won't digress), and lots of marriages/polygamous marriages having sex with each other is obviously bad bad bad!! Hard to control!! Save the defenseless women from their pimp husbands! Orgies, the devil's work! And...

3.) Homophobia

Good god, women being in marriages together! Married to a man, but what if these women end up by being married to each other by extension! And having sex with each other! And what if a woman marries more than one man! Would these men become inferior to their wives? Would one of these husbands be less dominant than another? Would the men function in these complex marriages like a woman?! Disgusting! That's gay (derogatory!) Would these husbands be having sex with each other? But that's gay and gay is bad! Sex is bad! God, purge these sinners of their Sodomy!

(Surprise surprise, homophobia has very little to do with actual gay people and has everything to do with puritan culture, control, sexism and the demonization of sex, and points two and three are actually the same thing)

4.) Christian nationalism

Polygamy and nonmonogamy is normalized and integrated with several non-Christian and alternative Christian cultures going back thousands of years, like Islam, Mormonism, feudal Japanese/samurai cultures, Hinduism, several Native American cultures, etc... even in the Bible in Judeo-Christian history and biblical era cultures nonmonogamy was normalized. Banning nonmonogamy in America is banning the right to engage in non-christian religious rite and practice. It's only something criminal to post-puritan Christians and those beliefs becoming law, regardless of other religious beliefs and practices also existing in America, is the unseparation of church and state.

So before you tell a polyamorous person "oh that's cheating with permission" or "I could NEVER do that," or "I love my partner too much to do that/cheat like that," remember that these are the institutions and the propaganda you're upholding with your judgement. Supporting/ being kind about polyamory is religious tolerance, and biting your thumb at the I*RS.

Tl:dr, the dissolution of separating of church and state, puritan culture and the sexism/homophobia associated with puritan culture is why nonmonogamy is demonized and why polygamy is illegal in America.

Tone indication/post intention: satirical and exaggerated tones criticizing longstanding institutions of oppression with the intent to explain why judging, hating or criticizing nonmonogamous practices is oppressive and a result of propaganda. This post is not intended to persuade people who practice monogamy to practice nonmonogamy instead or to demonize monogamy. It is intended to advocate for breaking the stigma around nonmonogamy.

[noob-handler]

The kink at pride discourse is still around and rancid in 2024

Y'ALL LITERALLY SOUND LIKE CONSERVATIVES SHUT THE ACTUAL FUCK UP!!!! And all of this was under a video of men in speedos

Anyways, kinksters built pride parades and you puritans can die mad about it. if you don't like it, just stay home and go back to headcanoning straight celebrities as gay. i am so ashamed of my generation

[commiepinkofag]

Heritage Foundation aims to target / doxx Wikipedia editors

A Heritage Foundation spokesperson said she was not able to answer questions about the organization’s work related to Wikipedia, which editors it was seeking to identify or how it sought to “target” them. … The Heritage Foundation sent the pitch deck outlining the Wikipedia initiative to Jewish foundations and other prospective supporters of Project Esther, its roadmap for fighting antisemitism and anti-Zionism. …

A well-funded campaign against individual Wikipedia editors by an organization like the Heritage Foundation, which is one of the most prominent conservative think tanks in the country, it seems, would be a first. Molly White, an independent journalist and Wikipedia contributor who wrote an article last week describing “the right’s war on Wikipedia,” said Heritage’s plan to target editors was concerning: “The document is sort of vague about what they would do once they ID a person,” she noted, “but the things that come to mind are not great.”

this is made possible by the widely available tools of surveillance capitalism.

EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation] has a guide to help protect yourself online.

[chrysocomae]

Laughing crying throwing up bc time is a flat circle. From my presentation in church history class in 2016😭😂

Fucking John Winthrop my boy your Puritan ass shit is so back baby. We are once again a theocracy. Fuck u Reagan for everything you jellybean fiend motherfucker

[the-red-lizard]

The absolute chokehold Christian purity culture has on Americans is fucking insane.

Why do I find at least 1 zoomer in almost EVERY Instagram reels comment section talking about how they want to make porn ILLEGAL?

Why do you seem to believe watching a video of people fucking is going to somehow emit an evil curse into your brain? What is wrong with you?

[grandwretch]

its so funny to me when ppl realize that the founding fathers weren't puritans like guys actually puritanical ideals weren't as prevalent in colonial america as you were led to believe. your elementary school teacher lied to you about history just as much as they lied to you about biology. they were a small religious sect that eventually grew larger as a reactionary movement against social freedoms. most of the founding fathers thought jesus was just some guy. when they said 'under god' they didn't mean The God; they mostly meant 'i mean there's got to be some guy up there doing all this shit right? so we should all probably be good people to make him happy'. john adams said he thought organized religion was stopping us from achieving utopia. there were gay people in colonial america and everyone knew they were gay. the entire country was not massachusetts.

[whoreiaki-kakyoin]

Some people have aggressively stupid takes on censorship, fictional content, kink…. But then also in irl sex and relationships, too, and it’s exhausting. If you are a grown adult wringing your hands about how you could never date anyone two years younger than you or getting your panties in a twist over regular safe consenting sex practices/acting like safe and consensual k.ink is inherently abusive…. Then your brain has been so thoroughly rotted by online puritan discourse and you need to get off of twitter and experience the real world. Genuinely. Hope this helps.

[rivetgoth]

ngl I see 500000x more posts complaining about those apparent poser baby puriteen fake horror fans who cant handle anything darker than tim burton and want all horror to be comfy and can't handle nuance or dark themes or whatever from edgy tryhards online who want to posture about how sick and twisted they are and how they love slurs and gore and don't do BABY nerd loser shit like watch cartoons 🤪😈 than I actually see the people allegedly being complained about. I think you sound very silly if you're that upset over some teens and young adults online being softies and not liking splatter horror and writing posts about how they want more movies to have happy endings or whatever. doubly so if your whole social media presence is made up to be a display of how edgy and aloof you are but you're still pressed about these people. triply so if you're not even really engaging with anything more "fucked up" than like, the saw franchise.