I probably shouldn’t be making this post. I hate getting involved struggle session highschool drama shit and I won’t even point to specific evidence because frankly this shit depresses me. But here goes:
This might be a “wtf are you ranting about, Owl?” moment but there are some serious reactionary vibes in this place sometimes. Maybe it’s a holdover from the dirtbag leftist era, I don’t know, but it’s gross. I see it trying to worm its way in here and it’s a bad sign
If you ever catch yourself using the kind of shitty othering and ableism you’d see on stupidpol or a 2016 cringe compilation, go do some self crit or fuck right off
I don’t think this is what the post is about, but the “J.K. Rowling escapes insane asylum” Onion article that was posted here yesterday was pretty bad, it was basically just making fun of mentally ill people.
Also, I’d like to point out that autocorrect wanted to write “escapes insane asylum seekers” :disgost:
I feel mentally drained everytime I see stuff like that especially since I was abused there twice and did actually contemplate escaping among other things.
I hadn’t thought of it that way but yeah that was bad. Though I’m not sure “inpatient mental health facility” really captures how bleak the atmosphere has been in the ones I’ve been in.
I think it’s a good example of how not everything we find funny or interesting or worthy of our time belongs on hexbear. We could exercise a bit more restraint in sharing reactionary stuff.
Someone direct linked to a nazi’s youtube video very recently and I raised the issue and they just said “I think it has value” like we’re studying the enemy’s tactics as some sort of organised resistance movement.
Like, okay go enjoy that value but maybe don’t turn hexbear into a space to recruit for the right wing. It’s okay to just admit you’re wrong sometimes.
posting waste water analysis is good, posting a stream of shit is not