#virtue signal

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

BMW openly admitting they don't do it to actually make a difference, they brand themselves to conform to the law of the land. Including the unwritten cultural rainbow law of June in the USA.

Gay men and women put themselves and everything on the line to fight for what is right. A giant, multi-national corporation won't put anything on the line for what is right. Instead, they'll silently sit back and watch while gay people living under oppressive Islamic regimes fight for their lives. If and only when they win the day, the corporation will swoop in, exploit their blood for a marketing opportunity and congratulate themselves for being "allies."

[aerikvon]

[anticraic]

i received some incredibly deviating and horrible news over the weekend and i’m really having trouble coping with it. i’ll briefly describe it in the tags but if anyone could lend a nice word or story or photo or literally anything it would be really appreciated right now. thanks.

[politijohn]

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[robertfg13]

The Virtue Signal

Another sign had appeared in the yard next door.  With the 2024 election only a year away, it was important to broadcast your political views to the other seven houses in the cul de sac.  Not to be outdone, another neighbor had also filled his lawn with a cardboard army of signs.  All I had to offer were grass and shrubs.  I was beginning to feel inadequate. In Our America Love Wins! How was I…

[aterabyte]

General litmus test: if you can take the thing you are going to say about transmascs, and replace transmascs with women, and it is obviously misogynistic? Literally just shut up it's entirely free.

[vroomvroomthings]

Nico waiting for the McLaren driver swap so that the Safety Car can be deployed so he doesn't get run over:

[elder-millennial-of-zion]

I never want to hear the phrase “collective liberation” from people who think the Israeli/Jewish hostages should have just been left to rot in literal captivity, ever again.

[teaboot]

Hey! Bamboo toilet paper person here. Your response was very thoughtful-- I want to apologize for placing the onus of climate issues on individual action, haha. I work at a zoo that bills itself as being very heavy on conservation messaging, but as a non-partisan organization we're obviously not allowed to talk about the evils of capitalism. This means that in our programming, we MUST place the responsibility of stopping climate change on individual guests, encouraging them to make more environmentally conscientious decisions like buying reef safe sunscreen or reducing carbon emissions by driving less. The most "political" we're allowed to get is telling people to stay educated and vote in favor of laws that will have a positive impact on the environment. I think I've been drinking the Zoolaid a little TOO much recently, because you're totally right-- the vast, VAST majority of damage to the environment is caused by major corporations, not random people working around their own unique needs. It was also low key a little ableist of me to take issue with that ngl.

Obviously no obligation to respond to this publicly (though it's fine if you choose to do so), but I did want to thank you for your response and mention that it did get through the nonprofit mission-based-organization propaganda living rent free in my head haha. Cheers!

Hey, you work at a zoo? That is SO cool, aadsdggjjg@!!!

And hey, no worries, you totally had a good point about endless waste and trying to counter it where possible- Just from personal experience involved in the barest edge of the fashion industry, I really, really, REALLY hate the idea that, like... people can't access simple shit like plastic straws, even if they're the best, most practical, least-harmful option for them.... because a 12 year old made up some random number for a school project about plastic waste

Where, as a zoo person, I imagine you're already aware that the average sea turtle is WILDLY more likely to die from abandoned plastic fishing nets or ocean-dump grocery bags than accidentally get a straw inside it

So here we are, using paper straws!- which may be an improvement, or may not, I don't have that data, and construction emissions are their own thing- BUT WE STILL HAVE OCEANS FULL OF ABANDONED NETS

WHICH ARE OBJECTIVELY WORSE, but MUCH harder to get rid of, and as the average person doesn't USE fishing nets, it'd much harder to market as a "You, not me" sort of issue.

Cleaning up fishing nets isn't trendy. It isn't sexy. You can't troubleshoot a cute little trendy solution for it that you can market to upwardly-mobile tweens.

But a reusable water bottle? A cute canvas tote? A metal straw? That's a solution you can buy and feel good about.

Never mind that you need to use a single cotton reusable bag somewhere like a million times before the cost of its construction counterbalances the cost of a single grocery bag every time you shop- which, hey, some of us were reusing as trash liners for their wastebaskets, or bundle bags for donating clothes, or lining for our leaky winter boots!

If a better option is available, I'll take it. But as ZERO HARM is next to impossible at this time, I personally am gonna aim for MINIMAL HARM as long as I can.

...sorry, I didn't mean to ramble off again.

But hey, if your nonprofit is doing good things, feel free to shoot me a link! I can post it on my blog :D

(Link to original post for context lol)

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Every company that does this is either performing Pride Passover - that is, signalling solely so they're not the ones the activists go after for not doing it - or throwing up a Wokescreen - a deflection away from their own ethics violations; the bigger the Wokescreen the greater their corporate misdeeds.

These companies are not your friends.

[nastyalover123]

My dear friend got me into the 1980s Soviet Sherlock and so now I'm here to spread the word, enjoy

[markscherz]

tumblrs being transphobic, with the ceo himself starting an actual harassment campaign against a transfem & also banning transfems who post abt it.

Oh shit, I had not heard about that.

I would like to say I don’t understand why this shit keeps happening, but I actually do understand it way too well. It just makes me so sad and angry. Especially on a site where people find and make their communities.

So much of this is about ego, and the people with power wielding that power to protect themselves and failing to protect others with it. A mere hint of negative sentiment towards them is harassment that is dealt with immediately and harshly, but a dozen complaints about discrimination or threats or bullying take ages to process and frequently come to unsatisfactory moderation decisions.

Whatever the sentiments of the people running this hellsite, you are always welcome in my corner of the internet, wherever you find it. You are all wonderful, and we all deserve to feel that part of this space belongs to us and those to whom we can connect.

Transphobia has no place on tumblr, period. Or anywhere else in society for that matter. It is that which should be being rooted out.

[al-kol-eleh]

Yossi Goldstein

[geekthefreakout]

A reminder to the Good Omens fandom:

1. Paused doesn't mean canceled.

2. It actually IS normal to be upset at the prospect that you may not get to see this story concluded (even if I think it will be).

Don't let people virtue signal at you and make you feel guilty for caring about Good Omens despite the accusations against Gaiman. People have been caring an unhinged amount about their comfort characters since Sherlock Holmes in the 1890s.

You are allowed to be upset at things that affect you. It does not mean that you don't care about victims. It does not mean that you're endorsing sexual violence. It just means that Good Omens matters to you.

That said, maybe don't post shit like 'i wish these women hadn't spoken out' because THAT is a shitty thing to say and a shitty thing to think.

That is all.

[nimrochan]

@ the “punch a Nazi” crowd, we’re still waiting for you to, I dunno, do something.