#silence is just as harmful

[planetsano]

I just genuinely cannot imagine sitting and turning a blind eye to black creators getting called slurs, being dehumanized and getting death threats on behalf of myself, in defense of me. That is genuinely.. so evil, disturbing and disgusting. I simply cannot fathom putting a stamp of approval on that as a human being with morals.

[platoapproved]

And the ones I did on my own were to protect me from you, Mr. Molloy. Why did I owe you my shame?

[furiousgoldfish]

The rationalization of 'I had it worse' doesn't make sense.  If something bad happened to you, are you now allowed to do a version of that bad thing to someone else, and you're right to do it? In that case anyone in the world who's been trough something bad, would have the ultimate right to inflict that same, or similar thing to anyone else living on earth, yet they don't. Because they understand it's illegal and there would be consequences.

Instead, they do it to people in their family, their friends, their children, people who can't fight back, people who can't inflict consequences on them. Again, if something horrible happened to you, why would you wish a version of that on your family? If something traumatized you, why would you need it to traumatize your loved ones? If anything your focus should be on protecting the ones you love from ever being touched by it.

'I had it worse' told to someone you've just hurt, means that instead of this person being allowed to call you out, to get angry at you, to protest, to speak out their pain and their feelings about it, they now have to cease all that, in order to feel sorry for you. While they're being hurt by you, they're required to give you empathy, to think about how you were feeling however long ago when you were hurt.

But if that's what you wanted, you could have sat them down and said 'hey this thing happened to me a while ago, here's how it felt', that would have had the same effect! It would communicate your past pain and have them empathize, but this is not the goal you want. You're not seeking empathy, you're not seeking for someone to 'understand how you felt back then', you want to see them in pain. You want to see them hurt and then you want them to never be allowed to call it out, to protest or speak their mind. You want them hurt, and you want them silent. You like that more. You specifically picked out a person who wouldn't be able to fight back, and would instead get trapped in feeling bad for you, because most people in your life would not tolerate this, they would do it back to you instantly. You picked someone powerless to hurt and then shut them down by forcing them to feel bad for you instead.

You didn't do it because 'you had it worse'. You did it because you enjoy hurting them. You did it for your own sadistic desires. There was never any need to do it to anyone, except you wanted to, and found a way to get away with it. You wanted more people on earth to suffer and you made sure it happened by your hand.

[infiniteglitterfall]

pretty please, my fellow progressives

Could we please all keep in mind that the concept of "The Jews In General, or A Specific Type Of Jew, Controls Education, Government, Media, and/or Banking", is a longstanding antisemitic trope?

And most of all, that it is false??

No, a marginalized group does not also control education, the government, the media, and/or banking?

No, Jews do not secretly control these things and just pretend to be marginalized? No, Jews have not secretly been accumulating power since the Holocaust, granted by too-generous gentiles, out of pity?

No, it isn't better if you just mean a specific subgroup or kind of Jews. It's still specifically Jews.

It's like when people who hate trans/queer people are fine with rich white cis gay men. So they think it's not bigoted to blame "people with blue hair and pronouns" for the downfall of society.

We all know this means, "I only see some of you as human like me. You have to speak and act a certain way to count. Everyone in your group has to pass a test to get into the Good group."

Doesn't work.

Sure, it gives them plausible deniability to the people who matter to them. But everyone else can see exactly how they feel.

We've all known for years that it's bad to think of a marginalized group as having some "good ones." Rein it the heck in, please.

Because YES, all of those examples are ones I've seen implied, or stated outright, over and over, within the progressive community. This month alone.

[deservedgrace]

your "correct" interpretation of the bible does literally nothing about the harm the "incorrect" interpretation i was raised with has caused so you can keep it to yourself <3

[n-pq]

"[...] And besides, there’s no such thing as fate.”

They lived in two entirely separate worlds.

based again on the gift of silence.

[sluckythewizard]

adventures from a rly fun magma i got to relaxe in today

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

I’m scared for the kids who might unknowingly buy the Harry Potter game or the books or the movies without knowing what’s going on. We need to ACTUALLY ban this franchise. Burn copies in stores. Smash your friend’s computer if you have to. I don’t know why we’re simply telling people to “read other books” and not going full scorched earth. There’s children out there who could be entrapped into this thing and not know until it’s too late…(It’s not censorship because it’s actually bad. Only minorities should be allowed to censor things because we know best.)

Nice try, buddy.

[velvetvexations]

Here to support you. It’s understandable for you to be angry unfortunately. But you’ve got a handle on it I believe

someone I until a few minutes ago followed put a post on my dash and I went to OP's blog and they were like "I don't talk a lot about trans issues" and I was like "your post about it was really bad so maybe you should talk about it less" followed seconds later by instant regret and an apology for being too mean because telling trans people to not talk about transphobia is if nothing else a bad look

I've said this before but Fantasy High Junior Year was incredibly timed for me personally for being themed around rage (or at least attempting to be), because the discourse about it on Reddit prompted me to delete my account and come back to Tumblr where I've had to examine my anger issues a lot deeper than ever before

Kipperlilly Copperkettle may not be a kin but she turned out in a late-season twist to be more deeply relatable than I ever could have imagined and that was when my interest in her went from spiting the people that irrationally hated her to Queen of Velvet Blorbos

[weareuniqueandimportant]

YOU SHOULD JUST COMMIT SSSSCIDE... YOU'RE WORTHLESS... YOU VIEW US THIS WAY YOU'RE AN ABUSER A KILLER A MURDERER... TRULY... YOU WOULDN'T EVEN LISTEN TO US YOUR HANDS THEY'RE ON OUR THROAT... YOU'RE WORTHLESS AS RESULT... GO AHEAD... YOUR VALUE IS COMPLETE 0...

THIS POST IS ABOUT LESBIAN FOOD... NOTHING MATURE ABOUT THAT... I LOVE EATING SSSSIDE... THAT IS A TYPE OF FISH WE WOMAN TEND TO EAT TOGETHER... WHY DO THIS TO US 😢...

DAMN... I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS COMPLETELY SHADOWBANNED POST WAS CHECKED BY THE SITE... THAT'S CRAZY... WHO EVEN FOUND THIS...? OH WHATEVER... HA.

[blissfali]

feeling like that post “i hate that theres a type of gay that you hate”

[spocks-kaathyra]

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[rainingincale]

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[cohlecosa]

longlegs, man. damn.

[n1ghtwarden]

what i find interesting is how minth 'regrets' or carries guilt for her hand and body being used (against her will) under the absolute. she says "i remember every face and life" or something to that extent. it is important to her that we, the player, know this. she thinks about them. they weigh on her. it's not regret in any traditional sense. minth herself says she has violent intentions - and how she was raised to respond with violence has shaped her interactions with others and the world around her. when she is violence, there is, in minth's mind, always a cause to justify it - she has been hurt, she is making a statement - or in the case of raiding (because girl has razed towns while raiding) for supplies, territory, defense et cetera. it's the regret of senseless violence, it's the regret of killing without any sort of justification for it in minth's mind other than sick bloodlust and impulse - it's the regret of losing control of her body and mind, literally, and being unable to stop it or gain control again until intervention from the prism. minth responds to hurts and slights with violence ( and she enjoys doing so )- but she wants these things to be justified, because she cannot get the satisfaction from striking without that justification. she'll never strike without what she considers to be just cause or provocation; doubly so if it falls in line with the tenants of her oath.