#the shipping antis are a smaller subset of the broader anti-sex wave on the left but within the niche are the most affected

[ao3fujoshevik]

hate being a free speech nerd after freaks like ben shapiro ruined the word association for young progressives and leftists. but because of that, now I’m seeing so many young, queer, ostensibly “progressive” people online agitating for the government to regulate and make illegal certain forms of artwork for being obscene.

gay & trans youth (and, more concerningly, non-youth) online calling people freaks & saying they should be on a watchlist or arrested for creating art is genuinely alarming to me. i’m not being facetious when i describe it as a full movement of people, with deviant identities, radicalizing themselves against deviant sexualities and advocating for the government to rebuild the gallows they once hanged us with …

i also hate being a free speech nerd bc it puts me in the position to defend art & people i dislike, and because no one online* understands the concept of advocating for things they don’t personally benefit from, people accuse you of the same horrible things.

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*barring some principled marxists who read theory, but as i said, no one online. at least in the west. it’s not that the rest of the world is better at this necessarily, so much as that the western (christian) countries are profoundly self-interested on the question of identity. in this post, i appeal to this, pointing out that the attempt to limit the rights of others will fall back on them, in recognition of the fact that americans writ large do not care unless they also get harmed, and even then, do not mind so long as the people they dislike do.