You can also bullied for not doing something, as much as you can for doing something, or not doing something in a sufficiently symbolically popular way.
Like the Ribbon episode in Seinfeld, where Kramer supports the AIDS walk, but he doesn’t want to wear the AIDS ribbon on his shirt, so he gets assaulted by a gang of ribbon wearers.
I had a similar incident where I didn’t want to wear trans pride flags for an event, but I supported the event, but still pro-trans bullies wanted to paint me as trans hating bigot for not wearing their flag. It was just power-tripping weirdos, for whom the irony of their insistence of social conformity of others appearances and behaviors was lost. Because hey, they bullying you doing it for a Good Cause, so it’s OK when they do it.
Yeah, this is ultimately why utopias are impossible. It’s not that we can’t come up with a fair system that would distribute resources fairly and not abuse any group for labour or anything else. It’s that no matter what system we come up with, there will always be power hungry fucks looking to abuse that system for their own gain and corrupt fucks that will take advantage of what powers or privileges that system grants them and use it to abuse and dominate others.
It’s why we both need police and militaries in some form and why they so often turn into something just as bad or worse than what they were intended to prevent.
Bullying is just the same thing at an individual or small group level.
You can also bullied for not doing something, as much as you can for doing something, or not doing something in a sufficiently symbolically popular way.
Like the Ribbon episode in Seinfeld, where Kramer supports the AIDS walk, but he doesn’t want to wear the AIDS ribbon on his shirt, so he gets assaulted by a gang of ribbon wearers.
I had a similar incident where I didn’t want to wear trans pride flags for an event, but I supported the event, but still pro-trans bullies wanted to paint me as trans hating bigot for not wearing their flag. It was just power-tripping weirdos, for whom the irony of their insistence of social conformity of others appearances and behaviors was lost. Because hey, they bullying you doing it for a Good Cause, so it’s OK when they do it.
Yeah, this is ultimately why utopias are impossible. It’s not that we can’t come up with a fair system that would distribute resources fairly and not abuse any group for labour or anything else. It’s that no matter what system we come up with, there will always be power hungry fucks looking to abuse that system for their own gain and corrupt fucks that will take advantage of what powers or privileges that system grants them and use it to abuse and dominate others.
It’s why we both need police and militaries in some form and why they so often turn into something just as bad or worse than what they were intended to prevent.
Bullying is just the same thing at an individual or small group level.
The only way a utopia is possible is with no humans in it.