#concern trolls

They are using you as a scapegoat for whatever battles they're fighting in their own head and they are not meaningfully concerned about you in any way. Because if they were they would not make you an object of ridicule.

That is LITERALLY the definition of eugenics.

How can I convince her that she did a school project on why she hates fat people?

The very first post I saw on your blog is in support of a trans person who was harassed by trolls, and yet here you are sending troll messages to another oppressed group.

Despite your troll message being both fatphobic and ableist, despite fatphobia having an immense amount of intersectionality with transphobia (you know, the group you supposedly care about), you'd rather spend your miserable life doing exactly what transphobic trolls do to trans people. It's just okay when you do it because your definition of "equality" comes with asterisks.

Get a life that actually has any sort of value or meaning. Because being a pathetic, bigoted hypocrite ain't it.

However the problem with concern trolls is that they ruin the climate for everyone, because they just want to stir the pot and cause (understandably) adverse reactions and get made fun of. But this makes it seem like whenever someone voices a concern or doubt or any form of slight displeasure that there is this "you can't sit with us" mentality in the fandom.

Therefore the actual concerned or unhappy fans don't dare to talk to anyone about what is bugging them - even if it might be something harmless that could be resolved easily. They just stew alone with all their doubts and have nobody to turn to except toxic hate blogs. And we all know how that ends.

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Nope, I get plenty of asks from people who want to figure out their confused or negative feelings in regards to things Harry has done or is doing, and how they personally respond to it. I answer them whenever I get them. Always have.

I know the difference between a concern troll and a questioning fan. I have no interest in wasting my time responding seriously to concern trolls.

I also have no interest in placating genuinely questioning fans when they sprinkle their asks with ill-disguised homophobia or misogyny, or add a dash of tinhat thinking from the hate blogs and conspiracy theory blogs they read because they want to be "analytical" and get a "wide view".

TW for violence

“Haspel’s track record is significantly less than “less than perfect”—it’s downright murderous. For example, prior to Trump bringing Haspel on as deputy director, she ran the CIA’s first overseas detention site in Thailand, where detainees were waterboarded incessantly, one to the point of having to be resuscitated and losing sight, according to the New Yorker. Haspel’s name was even on the firing orders for recordings of torture sessions to be destroyed.

But, you know, being a woman, other women, and especially feminists, should be overjoyed at the thought of someone like Haspel, who, again, is a woman, leading the CIA. A torturous woman, yes. But a woman, nonetheless!

Across Twitter, men emboldened in their vindication of proving feminists as hypocrites pointed out that women weren’t celebrating the soon-to-be-first female CIA director. Yep, shame on feminists for not cheering on a woman breaking the glass ceiling, while simultaneously breaking the spirits of detainees.”

“Her gender shouldn’t give her a pass on two major issues that will now be hers to explain and defend,” Julitette Kayyem, a former assistant secretary of the Department of Homeland Security under Obama, wrote for CNN. Those two major issues, Kayyem expanded, are her history of torture and standing up for CIA agents against the threat of Russia.

“My feminism does not demand that a woman have an equal opportunity to torture, alongside men. Torture is no less wrong because a woman, not a man, carries it out,” Mona Eltahawy explained in a piece for the New York Times. “My feminism, instead, works to dismantle patriarchy and its violence—whether it is sanctioned by the state, as torture is, or practiced at home, in the form of intimate partner or domestic violence.”

Read the full piece and see the tweet responses here

Misogynist trolls gonna concern troll - “why don’t feminists care about women?”

(Some of) The Response:

Guilt and shame have a disastrous effect on us. Practice unlearning the guilt. Eating high calorie, low nutrient foods involves committing zero crimes. You do not need to punish yourself for it.

Some takeaways

Brittney Griner is a distinguished American citizen who was wrongly imprisoned by a hostile foreign government that hates Black people and Lgbtq people. We should simply be happy she is home.

Until yesterday, most concern trolls had no idea who Paul Whelan was, or that he even existed.

Why should we take the Russian government’s word for anything? About Griner’s alleged Vape cartridges, or about Paul Whelan allegedly spying?

Viktor Bout had already served 15yrs, the majority of his sentence, and he was going to be released in 7yrs. He was not going to stay in prison forever.

The Russian government refuses to make any trade involving Paul Whelan.

Whelan’s own family has expressed gratitude for Griner’s release.

Donald Trump freed literally hundreds thousands of Taliban fighters, but somehow that failed to get Republicans anywhere near as upset as they are about Viktor Bout.

Donald Trump himself likely sold our government’s secrets to Russia and Saudi Arabia. Republicans aren’t upset about that either.

The Republican & Libertarian gun nuts who believe that every man, woman and 2yr old child should be armed to the teeth because of the 2nd Amendment are now upset that an arms dealer is going free??

The tankies who believe that Russia can do no wrong are now mad that Russia is getting an anti-American comrade back?

If you’re Black, gay, and/or a woman, I strongly recommend staying tf out of Russia.

Twitter is full of bots now - and Elon Musk has made it infinitely easier for them to spread mis/disinformation, so please verify the hot takes coming from certain accounts, especially if they are new or have been long inactive. Due diligence & fact check; be a discerning consumer of media.

No one in any country should face imprisonment or hard labor for possessing cannabis. That includes the United States too - our government doesn’t get a pass on its history of mass incarceration of disproportionately Black and Brown people.

I’m glad BG is home now. 🏳️‍🌈