#unable to stop seeing posts by prominent sinophobes because they're Big Name Tumblr Popular | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

dreamsaflame · 11 months ago

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always a very strange feeling when someone you've followed for years and years, whose comment/tag/art style is so familiar to you that you would recognise them even without the username and even with constantly changing profile pictures

suddenly posts or reblogs something that completely shits on your identity.

"i had a bad experience with people pretending to be this identity, so all of you in this community are now suspect."

"this personally isn't a fit for me, so all of you who do fit must have something wrong with you."

of course, the post in question doesn't use that language. but parsed, it sure sounds like bigotry and discrimination, doesn't it?

always a very strange feeling to realise someone i thought i'd known, would be disgusted to know me in turn, because i don't fit into their box. "why don't you come out? why do you hide away even in anonymous online spaces?" well, i wonder why.

#fragmentaries #aphobia #transphobia #sinophobia #'just curate your dash!' well that doesn't always work #the post in question denigrated polyam which i am not #but i am also not not-polyam. complicated issue #jarring thing to come across when i'm trying to figure it out #having to block perfectly fine folks because they unknowingly reblog posts by aphobes #unable to stop seeing posts by prominent sinophobes because they're Big Name Tumblr Popular #but none of that matters because people will sometimes just reveal hateful parts of themselves they don't think are a big deal at all #that had never come up before because the topic's never been relevant #idk what to say except that i'm rather Old Man Sighing Tired

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