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I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

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Wow, congratulations, I honestly didn’t think that I’d ever post on tumblr again, but you made a sequence of posts so bad that I felt the need to say SOMETHING or I’d basically be complicit in this nonsense.

I’m honestly not even sure where to begin here, so let’s begin with the whole concept of “politicization of fiction inherently leads to garbage”. You kind of completely ignored this point in order to go on this weird rant in your last comment, likely because now you realize that your position is entirely untenable,but just in case you honestly don’t, let me actually explain how out-there you sound.

We’ll just set aside the idea that everything has a political message. I mean, it does, but for sake of argument let’s pretend that statements that re-enforce the status quo are not political statements, that works of fiction aren’t shaped by the political milieu that they’re written in, or that inclusion of marginalized groups isn’t in some sense political. I’m granting some pretty ridiculously out-there stuff as far as media crit is concerned, but like, whatever.

Works that are now “bad” because they are “politically motivated”: Literally everything that Springs-1 mentioned, but also: Brave New World, Huckleberry Finn, Voltaire’s entire ouvre, Dante’s Inferno (it was literally written in part so that Dante could put all the people he disagrees with politically in hell), Uncle Tom’s Cabin, The Jungle, Oliver Twist (or is its detailed analysis of the life of an impoverished person and its relation to crime not political because you’re comfortable with it?), the even more clearly political Hard Times by Dickens. I can go on if you want. This is without going into movies (Dr. Strangelove), or video games (Spec Ops: The Line), or things like music.

People don’t just become writers to put words on a page; they become writers because they have something that they want to write about. They have concepts about society that they want to discuss, and ideas about the world that they want to analyze and unpack, and much of the time this is going to result in works being rather political in one sense or another, especially when directly talking about political themes. I’m not sure how this could even begin to inherently make a work bad, and you don’t even bother to make an argument for that, it’s just an unquestioned axiom you have that you don’t seem to have put any effort into thinking through given how utterly insane it is.

Your other arguments aren’t much better. You pathologize people who want more representation (Or claim to, as you assert) as “psychopaths” for reasons that are entirely unclear to me. Your sweeping statements about a group of people from various backgrounds with various goals and even various political perspectives are probably very persuasive rhetoric for people that agree with you, but for anybody that doesn’t it’s just sad. You don’t provide any actual argument for why you feel this is the case, it’s just another thing you assert. You make a lot of assertions in your posts but not really much in the way of substance, I’m noticing. 

Now let’s talk about this entire aforementioned bizarre rant you go on. You don’t even provide any examples of what you’re talking about- which is depressing because i’m sure if I tried I could fucking figure out some examples, and I’m sure somebody that actually wants to make the argument could too. You’re just so uninterested in actually convincing people (despite all your pleas to actually frame arguments in a way that will convince others) that you don’t bother. You just tend to bury axioms in a lot of ancillary words and assume that actually passes for argument. It’s amateurish stuff.

Of course sometimes people that argue for inclusion aren’t going to be great people, because you’re going to find bad apples in basically any self-selected group. Sometimes people are going to be taking these stances for cred or because they want to use it as leverage to be a bully, because you can do that with basically any position ever. You can do it for social justice causes. You can easily do it for anti-social justice causes: if I were to give you dozens of examples of people pushing against social justice being abusers or bullies or bigots, would that cause you to change your position? How many would it take? What is the level where you stop being “a position” and being a position that is solely defined by being advocated by “psychopaths”? I mean, aside from how much you agree with it, of course.

I’m not even going to get into your nonsense regarding Gamergate because that’s a whole lot of reactionary spin that it would take a good deal of time to unpack and this is long as it is.

VarianceHammer wrote this much better than I could.

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It’s super tuesday!

Time for Twitter to literally be hell.

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#couplemood

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My boyfriend has the most beautiful animals

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💗Reblog if u support these lesbian swans 💗

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gonna skip school but go to school anyway and steal my friend’s lunch money during recess and have my other friend be accused of theft but then he gets exonerated and becomes a lawyer

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★ 【はる】 「ルキナ」 ☆ ⊳ lucina (fire emblem awakening) ✔ republished w/permission ⊳ ⊳ follow us on instagram

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Friends, Romans, undergrads, I cannot stress this enough: 

Don’t use words in academic papers if you don’t know what they mean. 

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Thanks for ruining the funnest thing I had going. Now I don’t even feel like torturing him.

Joker finding out the Batman’s true identity in HARLEY QUINN Season 1 finale “The Final Joke”

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Revolutionary Girl Utena (1997)

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i have been in america lately and tried its Various cuisine’s here is my review

wendys

what i had: four for $4 burger and lemonade.

what i thought: this is the same as mcdonalds but there is a smiling girl! the guy who invented wendys was called somethng else so who is wendy. Food apparaition?

rating: 3/5. food was boring but mysterious girl warmed my heart

cook out

what i had: hot dog and shake

what i thought: holy shit. also milkshakes in america are like, solid ice cream. i was expecting nesquik

rating: 5/5. the hot dog was nauseating but cost a dollar and the cashier liked toys

steak n shake

what i had: you can only have burgers and shakes from this restaurant so thats what i got baby!! when in roam!! hasta la vista!!

what i thought: siri didnt know how to get there so we got lost on the highway at 1am. WOOPS!!! thats the american life

rating: 4/5. tasted like i was dying, but pleasantly

cracker barrel

what i had: friday fish fry up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what i thought: there was lots of old people in this restaurant. the waitress avoided me because my nails were painted. this is a well documented phenomneom but biscuits are definitely something different in this country than my country

rating: 2/5. scary torture cabin

costco

what i had: piza slice

what i thought: i know this isnt technicaly a restaurant but drinks were 50 cents so it gets an honorable mention. there was a crate of mayonnaise but i didnt try that.

rating: ???/5. costcos most precious secrets are lost to us all

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