A Band of Unpopular Misfit Minorities

You aren’t a bad person because of your gender.

You aren’t a bad person because of your appearance.

It’s been said before: anons like this are not secret agents sliding classified envelopes under your door to keep you safe or to clue you in to some big conspiracy.  They are very often, just a bunch of assholes.  And even more dangerously, they are too often assholes attacking a child for an innocent mistake. Either demand proof, or actually check out the person they are attacking’s blog yourself. 

I’ve gotten plenty of anons like this one.  Most memorable was one about a blogger being a “violent transphobe” when a quick look at their blog told me that they were themselves trans, and also that they were only 14 so any errors in exact wording, (which on this site is a death penalty offense) could probably be attributed to youthful ignorance.  I looked around their blog a bit and found nothing of malice.

People on this site seem to have a pretty good grasp about how abusive and toxic people offline are capable of flipping the script to make it look like they are the “real” victims.  You need to transfer that same awareness to the internet and remember that not everyone’s intentions are pure and good.  Please do not take anonymous messages at their word.  Especially when they are attacking another blogger.

@somethingatemypjs: Okay one, I am not necessarily against the death penalty. Good job for jumping the gun there, extrapolating my entire feelings on a controversial subject from a single sentence response on a post. Well done.

Two, I have. It’s not my fault you can’t be bothered to look. I don’t actively seek out people to argue with (anymore, anyway). If something pops up on my dash, I address it. If it never pops up on my dash or the very few tags I actively frequent, I generally don’t go out of my way to find someone despicable and argue with them. I leave that to the people with far more time on their hands than me (a busy college student taking 22 credits+a part time job+preparing for an internship) and who still feel the desire to actively seek out and deal with such people. I don’t “pick fights” because I’m a busy person who doesn’t have time to pick fights and have frankly outgrown my days of picking fights because I just wanted someone to fight. 

Three, just because I don’t do it on HERE doesn’t mean I don’t call people out on it. I’ve argued extensively about the death penalty with people on Facebook and in classes; I did a 30 minute long joint presentation on it for a religion class literally two weeks ago (and I can show you the slideshow if you like; I don’t mind). Additionally, I do call out these topics. Also, kindly provide me with an example of the death penalty against a black man you feel does not deserve it, and I’ll gladly go on record saying that I don’t approve of the death penalty. I’m well aware of the disproportionate number of black inmates executed via death penalty; I think it’s unconscionable, wrong, and should be fought. I’m going into public policy and international policy, and I’ll be interning at a pro bono legal advocacy group aimed at helping immigrants and non-white people navigate the justice and immigration system, so I’ll probably get to do some good in the world regarding the issue. What have you done besides attack people on the internet who have shown no ill will towards your opinion? 

Four, you’re assuming quite a lot of things and begging the question, something I don’t appreciate. You’re acting like my defense of a POSTER’S point of view means I automatically support that point of view. Stop assuming you know everything about me and my thoughts on the Dylann Roof matter. Frankly, I think he’s a despicable human being that deserves to burn in hell; that doesn’t give me the right to determine whether he should live or die. My personal opinion, since you so nicely asked, is that there are a whole host of reasons why the death penalty is useless, ridiculously expensive, and frankly letting criminals off too easily for their crimes. I think he should have to live in solitary confinement for the rest of his life and have to ruminate on his actions. There are some particular instances, however, when the person in question has obviously committed a heinous crime, shows no remorse or desire to be rehabilitated, and will forever be a danger to society that I think it’s acceptable. So thanks for asking before you assumed the fuck out of my personal opinion.

What on earth are you talking about? “An awkward lie?” I genuinely don’t understand what the hell you’re talking about. I didn’t lie about anything; please tell me where I lied.

You want straight answers? Fine: I already answered the first one. I don’t pick fights because I don’t “pick” fights (at least, not anymore); I respond to things on my dash. If it comes up on my dash, I respond. The answer to your question is “because I haven’t seen them.” Because the people on my dash are relatively good people who don’t reblog that crap, and I don’t exactly venture into the white supremacy tag for fun. It has come up before, and I have denounced them and took them on the same as I did for any other piece of idiocy that crossed my dash. Also, the absence of visible (ie, tagged) discussion on a single website is not indicative of my opinion or actual actions on the matter. I am violently against police brutality, and I think it’s disgusting. Your opinion of me one way or the other won’t change that.

To the second question: a) because relevant cases have not come up during my time on tumblr and b) because I don’t tend to talk about the death penalty much in general. I deal with other issues far more often than I deal with the death penalty. Again, point me towards a relevant case, and I will gladly denounce it. As I said before, I’m well aware that the death penalty is disproportinately given to black people and that they have a harder time winning appeals cases due to a variety of reasons. What are you trying to prove with this accusation?

To the third question: I am not defending Roof, you idiot. Read my damn response again: “what the fuck being against the death penalty means you’re a fangirl of serial killers now?” In what world is that a defense of Roof? This is a ridiculous assertion that makes absolutely no sense, and the implication here is really rude. And you wonder why I haven’t exactly been sunshine and daisies in my responses.

Also, I would like to add that your questions are derailing and are irrelevant to my actual response to the post. Whether or not I have picked fights with white supremacist blogs is irrelevant to my position on whether being anti-death penalty means that you romanticize/approve of serial killers. My position on a particular death penalty case has no relevancy to discussing why being anti-death penalty does not mean you approve of serial killers/white supremancy/racism/etc. My position on Dylann Roof in particular has no relevancy to the content of my actual reply, which did not even mention Roof and instead was focused on refuting the assertion that saying that “no one deserves the death penalty” inherently means you approve of Roof’s actions. All of which are false. My personal position on the death denalty has no relevancy to what I was actually discussing on the post. Therefore, your questions frankly have no bearing on the actual response I gave on the post itself.

No, my comment doesn’t imply anything about me, at least not the things that you’re implying. The only thing I meant by my comment is to push back against someone who implied that being against the death penalty inherently means you romanticize and idolize serial killers, which is wrong. That’s the reason I responded to the post. If you want to interpret that as anything else, fine. Just know you’re wrong and obviously don’t understand what I was trying to say. I saw a goddamn post that said ‘if you don’t think Dylann Roof deserves the death penalty, you’re romanticizing and idolizing a racist sack of shit.’ Forgive me for thinking that’s a ridiculous, ignorant, and dangerous statement to be making regardless of whether or not I personally support the death penalty (which I don’t, except in the most extreme of cases and only when there is absolutely no recourse left) and regardless of my personal feelings towards the person or case in question.

“somethingupmyass” you came at f-n first, pulled a whole bunch of nonsense out your ass about how apparently, defending another person’s right to be against the death penalty supposedly makes her a racist and a murderer fangirl and whatever else. Because reasons.

Apparently “somethingbesidesabrain” you to think that f-n is a politician that must “go on record” about every sing last aspect of her ideologies on the death penalty.  Also, somethingreallyrude you imply that you have read the entirety of f-n’s blog and know every last detail about her activities offline as well. I mean, how else can you claim that they have NEVER done the things you say? Sorry, but that seems a bit creepy to me.  

Then “somethingsmellslikebs” you keep egging f-n on, and then switch to comments instead of reblogs so that she can’t easily respond obviously in connection to this post:

What a condescending prick.  

‘Appropriation’ is, I think, only appropriation when either it is done in a blatantly disrespectful way, or if the group whose clothes (etc) are being adopted is culturally marginalized to the degree where they themselves face discrimination when they wear those things.

Korean people, afaik, don’t give a fuck. When foreigners visit and wear our clothes, it’s in good fun by people who are usually appreciative of the aesthetic qualities of what they’re donning, and also because we ourselves have never faced discrimination for our nationality or traditional dress.

My first though when I saw the little girl in the picture is that she looks really similar to a picture of one of my best friends back in high school who’s mother was Japanese and who’s father was French.  

I’m getting really sick of this fucked up trend of (mostly white) SJWs jumping onto every post like this and a) assuming the race of the person in the photo, and b) flat out ignoring people actually from the culture being represented.

In the first section he’s wearing an inflammatory statement, designed to make conflict that a lot of people disagree with. People passing him by are naturally going to stop and argue with that statement because it’s a statement they disagree with on a very strong level.

In the second one he’s not fundraising. He’s just standing with a sign that says help the poor. No one has anything to say to that because they agree, but as he’s not collecting donations there is absolutely no reason to approach or speak with him. No one who has reblogged this can honestly say they would have said anything to him either, especially as he’s not actually doing anything other than standing in a crowded area with a sign on his back. You do notice a couple of people looking at him in the second one too, to see if he’s flyering or looking for donations, and only walking off when they see he isn’t.