sometimes i feel like people are practicing some kind of trickle-up progressivism, where they think if you can purify individual communities, if you can target the most visible symptoms of systemic inequality, that will make said inequality disappear, and, uh, it will not. I’m not saying you can’t criticize the small things, I’m just saying, like, identifying the actual source of a problem is important and we should probably…like…do that.
trickle-up progressivism
That’s such a perfect way to put it that I’m almost mad at how perfect it is. Like… that’s it, isn’t it? That’s the whole thing–and the enraging, self-sabotaging futility of the whole thing–in a nutshell.
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a lot of people on here are very adamant that ever reading any material whatsoever written by your opposition is morally wrong which i think is deeply stupid… reading something doesnt mean you automatically agree with it, but it does mean youve gleaned some insight into the oppositions views in their own words which imo is imperative to actually arguing against them
also frankly i think if youre in a small tight knit group of self declared activists and everybody is telling you what you can or cannot read & you can potentially face punishment for venturing off the approved reading list thats a red flag baby
baffling how much of this site is just conservative protestantism with a gay hat
you know what i’m in just enough of a bad mood that i’m ready to nail my grievances to the church door so let’s fucking go
- black and white morality wherein anyone who doesn’t believe/think/live exactly as I do is
a dirty sinnerProblematic and probably a predatory monster- everyone is
a sinnerProblematic buttrue believerspeople who activist the right way according to my worldview are still better than everyone else, and I will act in accordance to this belief in my own superiority to let everyone else know I’m better than them because Ifound Jesusam the most woke- casual and fucking omnipresent equations of womanhood with softness/goodness/purity/nurturing to remind every woman who isn’t/doesn’t want to be any of those things that they’re doing it wrong
- aggressive desexualization (particularly of women’s sexuality, to the point where it may as well not exist at all) accompanied by pastels [not a criticism directed ace ppl having a right to sex-free content and spaces but specifically targeted at a wider problem resulting from the previous point]
- YOU’RE VALID AND JESUS LOVES YOU and neither of these platitudes achieves a goddamn thing
- historical context is for people who care about nuance and we don’t have time for either (see: black and white morality)
- lots of slogans and quotes and nice little soundbites to memorize but does anybody actually study the source material with a critical eye to make their own informed analysis
- the answer is no
- I’ve been to bible study groups don’t @ me I know what the fuck I’m talking about
Good Christians™Nice Gays™don’t fraternize with/let themselves be influenced by
non-Christiansthose terrible queers- all the media one consumes must be ideologically pure or it will surely harm the children
- it is Our Sacred Duty to protect the children from Everything, thus ensuring their innocence/purity/etc until such time as they are idk probably 25 years old
- literally just “think of the children” moral panic y’all can fuckin miss me with that
- people who don’t conform to the dominant thinking WILL be excommunicated/driven from the social group, and any wrong treatment they suffer will be seen as a justified consequence of their wrong thinking
- I Saw Goody Proctor With The Devil And She Had A Bad Steven Universe Headcanon
Thank you for breaking it down like that because so many of us have been saying it but to see a play by play breakdown comparison is just…Thank you.
THIS IS THE POST I WAS THINKING OF EARLIER WHEN I MENTIONED PROTESTANT PURITY CULTURE.
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