ellieintheskywithroxy:

ellieintheskywithroxy: yakkette: captainsnoop: it really is nuts how many people go to this site every day and see the phrase “fuck straight people i hate them” or “kill all whites” and get personally offended instead of just thinking “yeah fair enough” and just moving on with their day like, i’m a straight white guy and i do fine on here because i’m able to just say “yeah that’s a person justifiably venting their frustrations through generalizations because a society built by straight white men treats them like shit, fair enough” and i move on with my day because i have a brain and basic human empathy nice try snoop but i will not be sparing you during the racewar. “Why do people that aren’t me get upset by being told they deserve to die? They must be stupid or evil. Unlike them I am a very smart and good person. Having empathy means completely disregarding certain people’s feelings, right?” actually now that i think about it, this post is blatantly self-serving. it’s not about empathy. it’s not about making the world a better safer place for people. it’s all about how OP is such a good, smart person and how they’re totally not like those other straight white guys. it’s a guy jacking off to what a goddamn treasure he is and begging for his followers to agree with him. it is, in fact, every stereotype about male feminists being proven true. amazing, really.

it’s a good example of why this stuff selectively hits the most vulnerable members of the group you’re targeting.

It doesn’t affect privileged people who are confident and secure, they’ll just laugh it off.

It does affect people who eg. have other marginalisations and are being routinely told they’re worthless, or people with mental health problems.

I don’t worry about that kind of thing hurting people who don’t really have other problems, but I do worry about it pushing people who are vulnerable off the edge.

Like, as I am now, I can see that kind of thing and ignore it, because either they don’t mean it, or they’re not the sort of person I should listen to. But when I was severely depressed and having self worth issues, seeing posts from people I trusted saying that people like me deserved to die? That made me feel guilty for being alive, and made me contemplate killing myself to make the world a better place, because it was clearly the best thing I could do.

(via bpd-anon)