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like yeah, they definitely shouldn’t have commented that on someone else’s trauma post, but? again, this is likely a kid who’s like 15 or 16 at most. god knows I made some truly dumbfuck comments on the internet when I was an incredibly sheltered autistic 15 year old going to school in a state that’s SO fucking red we got shown graphic anti-abortion propaganda in science class once and absolutely nobody complained (and I didn’t even realize how fucked up that was until years later). the only difference is I was 15 long enough ago that all my dumbfuck comments were on long dead niche webforums and guestbooks that have long since evaporated into the void, not preserved on mass social media for all the world to see.

in short I like this tag from the notes

Also most people who would on this person for bringing this up have probably never read the book series either considering ok yeah it is a kids series about owls or whatever but it's also a series that SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES exact topics about things like

The group who unpersons members with numbers? Also bans asking questions, indoctrinates following a Greater Purpose and isolates members from interacting with the outside world until sufficiently indoctrinated. The most important one here for me is the attitude towards questions, for kids who are OFTEN told why they shouldnt ask questions and should just shut up and listen, ESPECIALLY in conservative and religious upbringings. The ability to ask questions is treated as very important and a massive thing

Book bannings are addressed in the series and discussed as a method of restricting population thought towards a narrow ideal, based on whether the books are deemed to contain undesirable or even just excessively frivolous topics VS access to all kinds of books in the interest of an educated and generally free population

One of the main antagonist groups is a military species-supremacist cult that also follows a similar pattern of indoctrinating and following an attitude of obey don't think or ask, and banning questions on undesirable topics. One of the main characters in the latter half of the series is a child of the leaders of this military supremacist cult and their initial story is about realising that everything they've been been brought up on and with is indoctrination and the hell they have to go through to escape from that group who very much is not ok with or tolerate that dissent

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