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I have been thinking on some things recently, and revisiting a disagreement I have had with Destiny in the past. This disagreement, best exemplified in this thread from years ago, was about whether or not someone could face repercussions at their job/school for being an extreme racist/Nazi, even if those activities did not technically involve their academic or occupational life.
I want to be clear in my change on opinion that it is not on the moral/principle of the disagreement. I still believe that in principle, it is good for society to assign a social cost to having such a harmful view (especially as it will lead to harmful actions). However, even at the time, I was concerned of if this was something that would ever work practically, or if it would only ever remain in the realm of theory and principle.
I've moved now past that to considering that idea in and of itself to be negative. There are a multitude of reasons, a bunch of which were known to me at the time, and were pretty much the anti-"cancel culture" reasons always given: these have just become more of an issue as time has gone on. I'm not going to go into all of them, but the concept of the mob mentality, the witch hunt, the desire to find a victim, the question of who decides what is bad enough, etc. They're not shocking, and are ones that Destiny and people before him have brought up.
These were, as I said, ones I'd considered at the time. They seemed to me to be pretty much level one arguments in this kind of discussion. Were these bad things? Of course, and they were the reason that I thought applying this concept in a practical way would be extremely difficult even then.
But there have been a few things I've realized and seen since then that have changed my mind and pushed me away from it even more, with the third and final being the straw that broke the camel's back.
#1: Harm Done, Harm Perceived, and Harm Intended
This was a consideration that mainly came to me from having a somewhat unique group of friends, due to being in substance abuse recovery. Because of this, a lot of my friends are also in recovery. Because they used to be, well, drug addicts, some of them has done some pretty bad things. Doing a home invasion, robbing someone at gunpoint, selling someone potentially lethal drugs, etc.
I found it very interesting, especially in the relatively younger circles of recovery, that as bad as these things are, someone would rather admit to, for example, a home invasion than being a white guy who *used* to say the N-word. Not everyone would castigate like this, of course, but there were enough to create an atmosphere that made it clear which would be worse to admit.
This made no sense to me. It is extremely clear which action is worse. It was extremely clear that even for the people who would have admonished, they knew which would do more harm (if they were asked if they'd rather hear someone use the N word casually or have their house robbed, we know which one they were picking). So then, why the difference in judgment?
The conclusion I came to is that racism- and indeed all kinds of bigotry- has a unique element to it in which a single action (and a single person) serves as a stand in for a lifetime of hurt felt. There's a great scene from Louie that does an excellent job of laying this out, basically talking about that when you see an action or even hear a slur, it evokes this intensely negative lived experience. This- what I refer to as the harm perceived- is all that ends up mattering, because it transforms you from a person into a mere symbol for pain and suffering that can't be dealt with through other ways. It is also why the harm intended doesn't matter, because with that action they're no longer seeing you as an individual.
And this is even in a friend group, where they do know you. In this, you might be shown some leniency and understanding, especially if it was the past, especially if you have other friends and people vouching for you and reminding the hurt person of the individual and the person there. But what about on the anonymity of the internet? What about when hundreds, thousands, millions of people are in agreement about this person being awful and horrible?
#2. Amplification of Power is Not Inherently A Good Thing
A major issue that arises in an area of discrimination and oppression is, of course, a power imbalance. The person harmed is often unable to seek redress because of this, and even to fully speak out for fear of further retribution and being further hurt by individuals in more powerful positions.
The internet, and "cancel culture", offered a way to somewhat balance the scales, to give power to these people. We saw this with something like the early days of #MeToo. Women who were being seriously taken advantage of and horribly abused, that weren't getting adequate redress in other areas of their life, were able to come together and share their stories and use the public outcry to fight back against these abuses. They also empowered and inspired other women to do the same.
But as things went on, we began to see the trouble with amplification of power. When you know that you can get a public outcry, outrage, and massive support directed towards you by doing something like this, it becomes very tempting to do just that. And as it became more and more common place to do exactly that, what warranted it became less and less.
So take the above, and now imagine you can film it, clip it, put it online. If you already feel hurt- if you're already looking at this person as just a piece of shit who represents the worst things that have happened to you in your life- then who cares about him? He deserves it right, you're just calling it out.
But once it starts, why does it keep spreading? Why doesn't anyone speak on it?
#3. The Bystander Effect, White Guilt, and Diffusion of Responsibility
In 1964, Kitty Genovese was murdered, and the New York Times made the murder infamous with the (erroneous claim) that despite the murder having 38 witnesses, none of them contacted the police or came to her aid. Because of this story, her murder has become a gruesome anecdote and the inspiration for research into why bystanders sit around and do nothing, even in the face of great injustice.
This is a question that dovetails nicely into what we're talking about above. Our natural feeling- that to do nothing to help, to be neutral, is almost as bad as doing the act yourself- is echoed in countless sentiments related to racism and prejudice. There is the famous "First they came..." poem that is engraved at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, there is Desmond Tutu's powerful "If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.", and there is Martin Luther King's oft-quoted (and often, especially if you're a dipshit fucking brain dead leftist, mis-used) "Letter From Birmingham Jail" (aka the white moderate since that's all people read).
This is a good point. We should of course stand up in cases of injustice, we should speak out, and we should work against oppression, even if it does not directly harm or target us. The problem is when this combines with white guilt to result in some very stupid and some very counter productive actions.
When I say white guilt, I don't mean the general meaning, of like a guilt or shame because of white people's history of racism. I mean this idea that you're not doing enough as a white person to combat racism, and guilt that you should be doing your part to be "an ally". It results in you being so desperate to get this feeling and to do something that makes you feel you've done something that you'll do it through retweets, or Reddit upvotes, or Tik Tok comments, or putting your black square up so people know you're sad George Floyd died. And if you initially didn't want to, you're going to feel both internal and external pressure to do so, because if you don't make sure people know you're condemning racism, how do they know you're not the racist?
These are small actions, but that is a double edged sword. The fact that they are small actions allows for what is an actual negative discovered through research into the bystander effect, which is diffusion of responsibility. You are providing one little cut into the person whose life is being ruined, and you're doing it in a way that's disconnected and removed from actually seeing the consequences. And even worse, you're doing it while thinking you're acting in the service of something good.
#4: Internet Journalism Fucking Blows, and People Don't Know How To Read, and Writers Don't Even Know How To Write
This was the straw that absolutely broke my back. I think the situation described above is bad enough. But what is to happen when the "journalism" and actual reporting of the facts just continues to erode and get even worse, where even what actually happened and is known is completely lost?
There are some obvious examples of how this happens, like the recent "Bike Karen" incident. For one thing, increasingly the way stories are "broken" is through online social media platforms, being reported on by people who aren't journalists. There is no accountability to these people, there is no background, and there is ultimately really no skin in the game for the people who are resharing and giving opinions on it if they completely fuck it up.
This especially sucks because now, we've gotten so used to the cycle described above that we actively look for it. We didn't even wait on this video, we saw it and thought "racist white woman, TARGET ACQUIRED", and ran with it because it seemed to fit exactly what we wanted. It allows people to tear down and attack someone, potentially completely ruin their life, all for the purpose of making them feel like they made some grand societal change.
But what about real media, and real journalists? What if these are the ones who are covering and talking about these things?
Well, that gets to what started the inspiration for all of this. Was looking into what happened to No Jumper, and discovered this Rolling Stones article about Adam and his link to "white supremacy". A lot of it I don't disagree with: people like Richard Spencer and Nick Fuentes are undeniably white supremacists.
But then, I got to this section: "On the same episode, Fuentes claimed 'Black people are committing the majority of the violent crime.' An FBI report, cited by Media Matters, debunks this, saying there was “no statistically significant differences by race between offenders” regarding arrests for violent crimes."
I have looked at this FBI report before (the joy of arguing with racists online). The FBI report begins by stating: " In 2018, based on data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, black people were overrepresented among persons arrested for nonfatal violent crimes (33%) and for serious nonfatal violent crimes (36%) relative to their representation in the U.S. population (13%)." Interesting... seems to not at all say what the article (and Media Matters) is suggesting it says.
So I searched out the specific sentence cited, which reads (in full context): " Among the most serious incidents of violent crime (rape or sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault), there were no statistically significant differences by race between offenders identified in the NCVS and persons arrested per the UCR. White and black people were arrested proportionate to their involvement in serious nonfatal violent crime overall and proportionate to their involvement in serious nonfatal violent crime reported to police."
In other words, the section they cited was talking about whether or not the arrest rate was proportionate to the rate of offending. It had nothing to do with which race was committing the most crime, and does not at all make the claim the article is arguing it does.
But worst of all: the Rolling Stones article ends with a note that: "Update: This story was updated on March 30th at 11:41 p.m. EST to clarify the language from the FBI report debunking one of Fuentes’ claims."
...It's been updated. The language I showed you is the update. They were informed of a problem, and even after this, they kept a blatant lie in their article. And yes, it's Rolling Stone, I understand it's not the bastion of journalist integrity, but if you search "Adam No Jumper" on Google, the number one result- after his YouTube, Instagram, and website- is a Rolling Stone article that links back to this one.
Now I might be being pedantic. But this blatant of a lie, especially when there was an update for a correction, was extremely worrisome to me. I don't know if it's even a lie or just outright incompetence, or indeed which one is scarier. I do know that in a world where people can't even wait a day for more context on a video, people can't even read past the headlines most time, there's no way that they're going to click on this FBI report, find the sentence, and realize they've been lied to.
And when this lie just helps to feed an engine that's already going to take every fact in the worst possible light, it only makes things worse. And for everyone who's in the middle, who can see something like this and have it pointed out to them, it just makes this stuff look even worse. It is lies and Internet terrorism masquerading as social change and progress, and it is a monster that the left needs to deal with.
Conclusion/TL;DR:
Thanks for everybody who read this, sorry if it just came out too much like a rant. It's something I've been thinking on a lot recently, and I figure that for all the times I call out Destiny when I think he's saying something dumb, I should probably acknowledge it when stuff is bringing me closer to his position.
For a TL;DR, it's basically just that four factors of

1. People being seen as faceless symbols for racism/transphobia/bigotry
2. Any online minority having the ability to start canceling and dealing with that temptation
3. A bunch of wannabe-allies hopping onto a "cause" with no regard for who it's hurting
4. Incompetent/dishonest reporting, both from amateurs and professionals

have led to something that could have in theory be good turning into one of the worst things to happen to online progressive politics.

I am a female 19 year old college student. When I was in high school, I became friends with a girl whom we’ll call Joe(18). She and I became friends and bonded over our love for plants, music, books, tv, and art. To paint a picture of her, she grew up in a religious christian household, and left christianity sometime in early high school. She was on and off of different antidepressants and mood stabilizers throughout our friendship. She had the same therapist for many years and had a close relationship with her. She loves her animals and urges me and our other close friend, ( we’ll call her ember ) to let her dogs and cats lick our faces because that’s how they connect to people. She saves baby birds with broken wings, loves kids, and is generally just a positive and happy go lucky kind of chick.
I left for college in the fall of 2022, and she was still in high school, so we didn’t talk or hang out for almost a year. We also didn’t speak the summer leading up to the school year, because there had been a split down our friend group and joe, ember and I had gone our separate ways. She reconnected to me sometime in early 2023 asking to start hanging out and I told her no and made excuses because of the abrupt nature of our friendship ending the summer prior. I started working with her again at my summer job in my hometown a month ago and have since noticed many changes in her demeanor, verbiage, and overall personality, and I started smoking with her after work sometimes like we used to, including ember.
She talks way less, and frequently zones out or stays completely silent when anyone is talking to her. She often tells me she doesn’t understand what we’re talking about, or what’s “ going on “. She speaks in a kiddish manor, often reciting omens about forgiveness and peace. Almost scripture like. Like a kid in bible school. Anything that she liked before, books, art, tv, etc, she has no interest in now. The only tv she watches are kids cartoons, and says the reason why is that “ tv is meaningless so i just watch happy stuff “ which seems just like some hippie shit she would say so I didn’t think much of that. I noticed as we all hung out that when ember or I would talk about anything we liked, our hobbies or interests, she never had any of her own. She takes care of her plants, and reads and meditates. The thing is, she only reads one book. Over and over. It’s called, “ A Course in Miracles “.
As time has gone on she mentions this book more and more. In fact 9/10 times I hear her say ANYTHING it’s just a reference to the book or peace or forgiveness or how nothing matters and reality isn’t real. She claims that the only “ real “ thing is love, and anything else in this world or life other than that, is ego.
One day ember and I went to her house to smoke and when we get there we enter her room like usual, and to sit on the bed, I had to close this big blue book that was opened to the smack dab middle in the middle of her bed. I hand her the book to sit down, and I’m reading the title as I hand it over. She takes this action as interest, and starts explaining the book to me.
I hate to use this word, but she truly sounded completely delusional. She claimed she was just “ further along on her spiritual journey” than we were, and she had reached enlightenment by discovering that reality is an illusion, and sin doesn’t exist because nothing is real. She no longer believes in personal accountability, and recently has made plans with me 12 hours in advance and blown me off as I’m sitting there waiting in the parking lot for her to show up. I recently told her how upset this recurring action is, and she told me “ I’m not a planner. I’m a free spirit, I just go with the flow. What’s supposed to happen happens and what doesn’t, doesn’t. “
The issue with this of course being that she wasn’t that much of a free spirit to reach out and make the plan in the first place.
I started looking into this book and it turns out that the author regretted writing the book immensely, and said she “ hated that damn book “. She died of cancer, which according to the book, isn’t possible because enlightenment cures ALL sickness. The book has been openly criticized for it’s sketchy ties to christianity, the bureaucratic shit the author did to call this a self help book even though it’s more of a religious book, and also the insane contradictory statements it makes. The author of the book claimed that Jesus spoke to her and told her to rewrite the Bible, because it was wrong. Hence, this book. I’ve also read that this book preys on young minds that were indoctrinated by christianity and escaped it. Some call it new age woo.
The more I see the worse it gets. The author says she regrets writing it in the first place. This book sends people into a state of dissociative psychosis. I remember Joe saying to me, “ Before I found this book, I wanted to kill myself. “ I am afraid that she’s already too deep in and has no grip on reality at all, not that she believes in it anyway. And the loss of it might send her off the deep end.
I have lots of shit on my plate, so does everyone, but this is a really large topic, and I definitely don’t have any energy to entertain this further. She feels hollow. She has no passion for anything, except her belief in nothing. As her friend, and just as a human that is concerned, I feel some sort of obligation to do something about this. I also feel the urge to just not speak to her anymore and call it done. Her actions are very selfish and it is hard to empathize with her when I know that she didn’t do any research. It’s hard to even take it seriously in a way.
She didn’t do as much as a Google search before devoting her life to this book. She lives by its scriptures and uses them to do whatever she wants, whenever she feels like it.
Would stepping in at this point even help? Would she dismiss me as not real if I even had concerns about it or brought it up?
I am wondering if my friend is still in there somewhere. She’s just graduated high school and is still very young, but has always been a little naïve and uninformed. Do I jump off a sinking ship? Or is that selfish and I need to help her? I just had to get this out of my system because I cannot stop worrying about the consequences this is going to have.

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We’ve all seen our fair share of bad horror movies, but sometimes even the really terrible ones have one scene, moment, or kill that’s worth seeing, even just as a YouTube clip, lol.
Mine is the post-credits stinger for AVP: Requiem. The whole movie is a mess, vastly inferior to AVP. But it is a nice touch at the end to see how the Predator mythos connects Yutani to the Weyland-Yutani corp.
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Before asking me to draw your OC please read: 1. It will be in anime style(unless you have a reference photo I’ll see if I can) 3. Anyone who requests 2 characters will be half bodied to equal one 4. If you feel bad l'm doing this for free I would love an art trade! 5. If you do want me to do more for you and pay me you can do that as well, though l'd die.
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So I used to do martial arts on and off throughout the years and one of the things I always enjoyed was sparring. Admittedly I didn't expose myself to sparring that much because I realized later on that sparring could be detrimental to the brain.
Then I decided to just quit martial arts entirely because I didn't want to deal with brain damage and such. After a couple of years of not practicing, I ended up being taught muay thai from a gym trainer and he also light sparred with me. I was really in love with the art cause i never did kickboxing before. But I was still concerned about potential brain damage cause when I got home, I had a slight headache.
However, I remembered that fencers spar all the time and iirc, they don't feel pain when they get hit in the head. Or at the very least, didn't get whiplash.
I was wondering if anyone here ever had to switch from an open handed art to a weapon sport/art such as fencing and if it's the right sport for me if I enjoy sparring but don't want serious injury? Mainly head injuries?
Thanks.

You want me to draw your role-play character? l'Il do it for free, I just want some fun freelance work. My Instagram is @lycheechii if you want to see some of the quick freebies I’ve done
Before asking me to draw your OC please read: 1. It will be in anime style(unless you have a reference photo I’ll see if I can) 3. Anyone who requests 2 characters will be half bodied to equal one 4. If you feel bad l'm doing this for free I would love an art trade! 5. If you do want me to do more for you and pay me you can do that as well, though l'd die.
Must send me reference pictures of what you want. Along with photos answer these: 1. Facial expression 3. Color of skin, eyes, hair, and clothes 5. Hairstyle, bangs? What type? 6. What age do they look? 8. What type of clothes? 9. Any weapons? 11. Type of body pose 12. Any tattoos? Scars? Beauty marks? Freckles? Magic signs?
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