girldagger:

periegesisvoid: Your social justice should be founded on love for others, not on a desire to be the most visibly enlightened. OP has the “it’s a fucking dove” as their title as their icon is the “q-eer dove” which resembles the iron eagle (which has been called out MANY times)



the post rings true but OP is an antisemitic and invested in identity politics. clearly doesn’t have a love for jewish and LGBT people.

yeah uh I’ve seen people claiming that the controversy over the fuckin dove icon was “whiteknighting” or “tokenizing” jews but p much 90% of the people I’ve seen criticizing it have been jewish, including the first people who raised issue, so. I know I had to do a double take the first time I saw this shit.



like the appropriate response to jewish people telling you “hey ur icon gave me a moment of visceral terror because it looks like a fuckin nazi symbol, you should change that”

isn’t to flip out and essentially call them paranoid for their very real, reasonable fear of antisemitic iconography - even if you didn’t make it look that way on purpose.



it’s beyond just the ugly icon, it’s the callous, self-centered reaction to jewish fear and trauma. it’s not that fucking hard to apologize and change the fucking icon. and I’ve also seen shit with OP not wanting to change things in the icon because of OCD and lmfao join the club, that’s not an excuse.

it’s really fucking inexcusable that people are spending so much time trying to justify this writing long posts about how it doesn’t ~really~ look like the iron eagle, what about this unrelated bird flag you gonna complain about it too huh, wow so paranoid so clearly a smear campaign, etc, etc - are you fucking allergic to just owning up to the fact that you made oppressed people uncomfortable, even if on accident, or what.



it’s nasty and it’s cruel and tbqh it reminds me very uncomfortably of the kind of victim-blaming my ex did to reframe people’s reactions to his abuse as his victims abusing or slandering him.

