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Hate and blind ignorance to hate groups has taken friends.
8 years ago
A week or so ago, there was a journal post I responded. The journal was, for all intents and proposes, a knee-jerk reaction to the events at Charlottesville. It was made with bias and ignorance towards only one side instead of calling out all sides that contributed to and caused the violence. It called for actions against others within the fandom who may even vaguely be considered connected. So much for peace and tolerance. And while I agree with some of the statements which said such hate and violence has no place, and the actual ideology that mentioned groups have and promote should be fought against and I have no love or agreement for, I wont stand for protecting other violent hate groups and absolving them of their crimes and destruction and hate and violation of free speech on others.
So what happened? I called the posted out, telling them to include the other groups that were there inciting violence and hate and destruction, and how those associated with said groups should too be removed as they too have no place within the fandom with their violence and hate.
So what happens then? I got a response typical of those siding with ideology of said hate groups and was then blocked from commenting further, making any further discussion and rebuttal impossible.
I had thought the poster was above such things. I thought they were a good person who just got swept up into the moment. I was wrong. They had become part of the ideology and showed the stereotypical response to those that show logic and counter points that don't coincide with their own. And whats worse, another friend who I think highly of and know to be intelligent and logical and not part of the ideology of any of these groups, may have black listed me because of my response to the journal.
I don't know what to say except that it saddens me that this is what the fandom and even the nation is becoming. A Social civil war where free speech is being fought against by fascist who claim to be against fascism, claiming to be against racism yet are being racist, and claim to be against sexism yet are being sexist.
So what happened? I called the posted out, telling them to include the other groups that were there inciting violence and hate and destruction, and how those associated with said groups should too be removed as they too have no place within the fandom with their violence and hate.
So what happens then? I got a response typical of those siding with ideology of said hate groups and was then blocked from commenting further, making any further discussion and rebuttal impossible.
I had thought the poster was above such things. I thought they were a good person who just got swept up into the moment. I was wrong. They had become part of the ideology and showed the stereotypical response to those that show logic and counter points that don't coincide with their own. And whats worse, another friend who I think highly of and know to be intelligent and logical and not part of the ideology of any of these groups, may have black listed me because of my response to the journal.
I don't know what to say except that it saddens me that this is what the fandom and even the nation is becoming. A Social civil war where free speech is being fought against by fascist who claim to be against fascism, claiming to be against racism yet are being racist, and claim to be against sexism yet are being sexist.
Who I'm with or part of: 
^^^ THIS! SO MUCH THIS ^^^
It is at the point where you cannot even make a gay nazi parody without being called a "literal" nazi by these people that don't even understand what a nazi, let alone communist, actually are/were.
I mean nazi is now their go to insult and justification for being actual law breakers and real fascists. And they pat themselves on the back as they do and push for the exact things that said fascists did.
Even when I outright call Nazis and communists the scum of the earth, I still get called a nazi...
The sheer amount of brain-washing of and by the "alt left", (I mean I want to say it is brain-washing but there is always the possibility they are just that plain dumb), is ridiculous.
I must remind you these are also the same people that have called me homophobic because I don't want to fuck a woman that "identifies" as a man.
Everything that was bad about the extreme religious conservative right wing from 10+ years ago is now manifesting itself in much the same way with the extreme left wing.