It’s bullshit.

It denies the fact that people’s attitudes and opinions about things in fandom don’t just stay in fandom.

They want to say “fiction affects reality”.

How about “online affects reality”.

Online isn’t a magic nowhere space that’s separate from real life.

It’s like saying opinion pieces in newspapers and magazines don’t affect reality.

The people who say fandom opinions don’t influence things outside of fandom are ninnies who want to excuse their own shitty behavior.

Either you believe art and fiction should be censored, or you don’t.

You can’t put the censorship genie back in the bottle once you let it out.

It’s bullshit.

It denies the fact that people’s attitudes and opinions about things in fandom don’t just stay in fandom.

They want to say “fiction affects reality”.

How about “online affects reality”.

Online isn’t a magic nowhere space that’s separate from real life.

It’s like saying opinion pieces in newspapers and magazines don’t affect reality.

The people who say fandom opinions don’t influence things outside of fandom are ninnies who want to excuse their own shitty behavior.

Either you believe art and fiction should be censored, or you don’t.

You can’t put the censorship genie back in the bottle once you let it out.

Big, wet, smothering, saucy kisses all over your grumpy or stoic F/O. 💋💋💋

I don’t know about you but were high on legal weed edibles.

So that might explain the vibe.

profiction-monika:

blackheart-biohazards:

I want to be clear that I don’t think you should be nice, polite or respectful toward people who are being disrespectful, abusive and threatening to you.

I just think that death threats and suibaiting poison the environment more than they actually affect your enemy.

There are just better and more productive ways to silence or even be rude to people who abuse you online than threatening them.

I often respond to anon hate by joking that the anons are in love with me. Somehow that makes them angrier than anything else. However, I would never tell anyone to kill themselves, as that’s a moral line we should never cross.

Similarly Harry (😈🌺) often starts being really patient and kind and “Mr. Rogers” to them and that tends to make them upset for some reason or they just go away without replying.

I want to be clear that I don’t think you should be nice, polite or respectful toward people who are being disrespectful, abusive and threatening to you.

I just think that death threats and suibaiting poison the environment more than they actually affect your enemy.

There are just better and more productive ways to silence or even be rude to people who abuse you online than threatening them.

sweetheart-zombie:

normal fucking people: please for the love of all that’s good look at the tags before you read something

rancid fucking piss babies: now am i not only not doing that, but i’ll also send death threats to the creators and harass them off the platform they have a right to be on after purposefully seeking out content that will definitely harm me 🙂

We fight bullies in meat-space because we cannot make them simply be silent and disappear.

Online we can make bullies be silent and disappear.

If you’re responding to ideological bullies online with simple death threats, rather than with ideological arguments that can benefit an audience by educating them, then you’re just hate masturbating.

What purpose does telling someone to die serve?

Oh sure but then you kill them.

(context I am talking about war against ideological enemies who want to annihilate you and your people, not rude or mean people you don’t like or agree with. )