BUT (and this is personal, but whatever) I do think that sometimes callouts are helpful. When I was a kid I was actively talking to a grown ass man on here who would pressure me into doing "uncomfortable" things so he could get off to it. I knew it was wrong somehow, it felt off, but I was made to feel like it was just me making it weird. And the only reason I finally blocked this person is because I saw a callout by another kid my age saying "Hey, just a heads up, [grown ass man] is going around talking to little girls and making them [do stuff]" and in the replies I saw others my age saying "Yeah, he's doing that to me too" and that was a huge wake-up call.

Like, yeah, I do think "callout culture" is fundamentally fucked up in the way that people tend to use it as a tool for harassment, I don't want to undermine that especially, with how much of it is used to further persecute marginalized individuals. But it was also a callout post that saved me from a situation where I was being groomed, so I don't want to throw the baby out with the bathwater and say "warning people about actual predators is bad, because a lot of people abuse that tool"

I think there is nuance and I think there are situations where warning people about someone with a pattern of predatory and abusive behavior is, in fact, very useful and can save people. It saved me. It saved the other little kids in those replies. I never talked to any of them again but I hope they're all doing well, I hope they've moved on.

I guess this has just turned into me musing now. My point is every time I see a post that says that callouts are inherently bad, I half agree. Because I do think the way people tend to make them is in bad faith, and I know that this is specifically what OP is referring to. But also... Sometimes it is necessary. Sometimes it saves someone. I don't know.

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