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
Thanks, communication isn’t my strong suit. I like to think we’re at least a little better than most places on the internet when it comes to not resorting to body shaming chuds or using bigotry just because the target is a terrible person. I really do believe one of the strengths of this place is that unlike say, a lib subreddit that happily throws homophobia around the moment they see Putin and Trump together, we at least do self crit and try to do better and address our flaws when they’re reflected upon
I too would like it to be this way, but my experience tells me we’re not much better. Especially because we also have a very bad habit of eating our own.
Like, I like it here, but I don’t think I’ve ever been in an online community so eager to single out particular users for scorn.