This is a dead blog, y’all. If you enjoy or otherwise benefit from the years-old posts floating around then I’m glad, but there’s really no point in following or sending asks. And no, the blog will never be resurrected, because it was emotionally exhausting and ran its course long ago.

This is a dead blog, y’all. If you enjoy or otherwise benefit from the years-old posts floating around then I’m glad, but there’s really no point in following or sending asks. And no, the blog will never be resurrected, because it was emotionally exhausting and ran its course long ago.

Yeah, I got super busy too. Moving, school, insurance companies, doctors, and people around me who can’t seem to get their shit together. The funny thing is that I actually have a few posts mostly Debigotized and ready to go, I just haven’t had the time to proofread them and post them. Also, there haven’t been a lot of submissions – and I personally don’t have the time to go hunting for things to debigotize. -shrug-

Pretty much. I got bored, and then I got super busy. Also sick of people demanding that I parrot their views and essentially make their arguments for them. My personal is samanticshift if you want to follow, but fair warning, it’s like 40% complaining about fatigue, 30% nature photography, 20% SJ-related reblogs, and 10% my abbreviated opinions.

I’ve decided that, since I haven’t posted anything new in ages, and tbh, I don’t think I will due to how busy my life is and how I don’t have the emotional energy to create posts for this blog, I will be leaving as a mod. My personal blog focuses primarily on LGBTQ+, Jewish, and sex work related issues, and anyone is welcome to follow me on badjewess . I wish Sam and McAlli the best, and this decision has nothing to do with them or how this blog is run.

Not all evil people are on the same level of evil, because that doesn’t make them not-evil. A horrible person doesn’t get promoted to being a good person just because the person to their left is even worse than them.

Capitalism is shit – and yes, it is built on the fact that in order for people to make money, other people have to be poor. Which is untrue and harmful to thousands of people. People who are only concerned with themselves are not necessarily good people (neuroatypical people incapable of sympathy/empathy notwithstanding, though even with those abilities lacking, that isn’t an excuse to be a dick). And there’s a social phenomena, which you can google, that proves that the more rich a person is, the less they give a shit about the people who make less than them. The better off someone is, the less they care about the struggles of others – human beings are just kind of fucked up like that.

Again, like I said, I don’t really care about intention. If you hurt someone, even unintentionally, your intentions don’t matter anymore – you need to apologize and be responsible for that.

Unfortunately, society sort of… does …work with this notion of hurting others, especially in the USA. If you really look, everything is set up so that somebody suffers where others prosper. Even if it’s not on purpose – though, naturally selfish people often do know that their selfishness hurts other people, so I don’t really don’t see that as an excuse.

… people poor so you can get rich. But if someone is only concerned with themselves why would they want to see others do worse? How does that make their lives better when they could be looking out for number one? Would you agree that it is distorted thinking to consider everyone to be on the same level of evil as others?

The reason I asked that question was that I notice on tumble that there is this notion that all of society works with this notion of hurting others. That for should true with things like racism, but it doesn't seem to cross people's minds that by nature selfish people aren't out to oppress others. They want to benefit themselves, and while they aren't out to help others they also don't have any interest in hurting others. Like you'll see people on here remark that capitalism is about making...

I think that everyone does good and bad things, but I also think your intentions come into play. If you’re doing something, anything, and your intention was to hurt people – or you didn’t care if others got hurt – then I’m going to go ahead and say you’re probably a poo-smear of a human. If you did something and you hurt someone unintentionally, as all of us do, and then you don’t recognize that and apologize, you’re probably only the edge of a poo-smear but you’re getting there.

I believe that people who active incite hatred are, most likely, terrible people. And I believe people who hurt others to benefit themselves are generally pretty terrible people. It doesn’t really matter if you didn’t intend to hurt someone, if you did and you don’t care, then you’re probably some measure of evil. Your desire for something doesn’t mean you can just be a dick. I want to publish a novel and make money off of my writing, but I’m not going to write a book that demonizes a community or talks about a controversial topic as the “Devil’s Advocate” just because it’ll sell. Am I making sense?

As for me. Comparisons to Hitler are never appropriate because people usually veer into antisemitism when they talk about Hitler. So usually, I stay away from talking about Hitler…unless we’re actually talking about Hitler. And tbh the only people I’ve seen talking about Hitler are Nazi’s, Pro-Life douchebags, and the Jewish bloggers calling out antisemitic bigots. And when the Jewish bloggers are speaking, I don’t, ‘cos it ain’t my gravy boat and I don’t know shit.

Tumblr is an interesting beast, and I’m always a little uncomfortable with talking about “Tumblr” like some sort of hivemind. “Tumblr is like this” only really applied when talking about how fucked up the website itself is, because there are a hundred different sections of Tumblr and it all depends on who you follow.

are willing to hurt others to get it - but they’re not out to hurt others, they want something else a and don’t care what it takes to get to it. Or put it this way. Not everyone is out to be a big, evil villain. Like they want money, not to create chaos or hatred, and if it won’t make them money (or whatever it is they want) they won’t hurt others to get it. But Tumblr still seems to treat good and evil like they’re monolithic categories. Would you agree that good and evil are really more of a spectrum than one vs the other?

Oh, sorry, just saw your response. Anyways, I was wondering here - would you say that Tumblr often makes good and evil out to be much more black and white than it really is? I notice people on here seem to think that people like Wall Street capitalists are as evil as people like Hitler. It seems a little over simplified to me. Like there are some people who are out to incite hatred, etc. just for the sake of it. But then you have people who are just selfish and want whatever it is they want, and

Oh, you have Aspergers too? That will probably make it easier to understand where I’m coming from here.

I hope so! And I hope you don’t mind that I reply like this.

The first thing I’m wondering is one about why people react like they do. I’m not saying that others are wrong so much as I don’t understand why they seem to care so much about some things and not care about others.

I used to talk to one British girl on here who was extremely bothered by this event last year that went something like a man in California snapped and killed a half dozen people because some women wouldn’t sleep with him. This girl that I used to talk to, as well as a couple other people, were heartbroken and outraged that such a thing could happen. They claimed that it was so shocking and infuriating that in 2014 a man would think like that.

Ah yes, the Rodger’s incident. I watched it closely. I even read the bastard’s manifesto, all 100+ pages of it. I was that angry about it. This is kind of complicated, so I hope I can say it in way that’s easy to understand. It is shocking and infuriating that a man would go on a murder spree because he couldn’t get laid. It was infuriating and shocking that we later learned he never so much as asked a woman out. He never dated a woman, he never asked a woman to sleep with him, he literally just expected that because he existed, a woman (a woman that he found attractive) would throw herself at his feet. He expected sex because he smiled at a girl. He harassed women who wouldn’t pay attention to him – he recounts in his manifesto where he dumped his coffee on a pair of women who were walking down the street because they didn’t smile at him when he was stopped at the traffic light. He recounts a point where he literally attempted to push a woman off the second story roof of a house because she didn’t immediately engage him in conversation. The shock and horror mostly comes from the fact that this guy literally did nothing to engage women (other than harass them), expected sex, and when he didn’t get what he wanted, his decision was to kill people.

I paused when I saw this and was rather… confused. Why was *this* so bothersome to them? Like check CNN world news every so often and look at what you find. In 2014 ISIS had abducted and made tens of thousands of women and girls sex slaves who are brutally raped dozens of times daily (and even released a manual on how to make women sex slaves), millions of African women are forced to undergo FGM each year, thousands of honour killings in India, women are still stoned to death for being witches in Iran, and I could go on here. All of this happens totally openly as well. Like just Google this and around 99% of this stuff happening is no secret. It’s made known to the public.

A lot of us [read: Americans] are not exposed to world news. Some events are literally not televised because our media doesn’t want us to know. On top of that, in the most polite way possible, it is not our business what happens in other countries. It was our [read: USA] sticking our noses into things that create groups like ISIS. That shit is our fault because we fucked up an entire country for our own selfish reasons. We can support from the outside and we can express out sympathy for the absolute horrors that the women of other countries endure. I can be horrified and pissed about those things happening on the other side of the world – I can petition and raise money and do these things from afar to help, but if I get too involved it gets a little “I’m here to save you, you poor savages!” and that’s definitely not what you want to do.

So I’m just a bit confused - how were they so bothered about *this* incident? Any look at the news will show you that misogyny is rampant in this world, and it has pretty much always been this way. Where’d they get the idea that the world was better than this in 2014?

I think, especially in some westernized countries, that we kind of forget? I know it happens in the USA, that we kind of just assume that these things don’t happen in our country. That we’re too good for that sort of thing. In some cases it stems from racism: “We’re so much better than those under-developed countries.” I think another reason people were so horrified and outraged about the E. Rodger’s incident was due to the amount of support that he got. Hundreds of men applauded him for killing those people. Hundreds of men defended him, rushed to say he was mentally disturbed, to put the blame on the women who didn’t sleep with him. People were proud of him. Other men were pledging to follow him, to go out and kill more women themselves. That was what was especially horrifying.

I hope what I’m asking. I’m not asking why they were sad and angry, I’m asking why they were sad and angry about *that* incident while they didn’t once note anything else that happens.