Heh....

That was a meme a few years ago.

"We regret to inform you that [this person you like and probably follow on social media] is racist."

hah, then i guess i am wayy to less around on any media for that to happen (with me).

Yeah, I gave up on social media not too long ago. I decided I didn't need the constant updates on shit like that.

heh, having only sporadic updates by mixed sources is a neat thing anyways~

And it makes it more special.

good point!

It's pronounced RACISS.

Or istaphobe :P

*Only when preceded by "Dat's" and usually when weaponized by bigots to attempt to belittle antiracists. See also: "Dat's wacist".

Or when mocking overly sensitive reverse racists.

Reverse racism is a similar construct.

I'm not sure I've ever met anyone who can explain what a "reverse racist" is such that it ends up being a thing that actually exists, as opposed to an imaginary monster that merely reflects the mindsets of the racists who like to complain about them.

I think the original meme was the "Milkshake duck". I'd forgotten all about that until I saw your comment.

I just looked it up. I'd never heard that expression before but I like it a lot.

This happens to me at least once a week 😅

For art gallery sites, I don't care much for what they favorite, just if I like their art. That said, the interests of the people I do watch tends to reflect in what they draw, but I don't look through every artist's favorites.

For social media sites... I don't use them.

I have pretty much the same method. Social media is just not for me.

Too many Os in the OwO.

This is actually a very smart move. In the end the algorathms could think you like this stuff too and then they show them to you all the time.

quite normal. we might like some sides of the artists it doesn't mean we agree with all their sides.

Daily bread...great art, favorites suck.

Separate the art from the artist.

Also part why I don't use Twitter. I don't care for retweets of retweets of likes of retweets. I follow an artist and don't really care what they follow.

I do the same except I follow them after wards...if...

Yeah, I know this feeling. As time has gone on in the fandom for me, I find I've grown kinda picky as to what kinds of things I see and am able to even tolerate anymore. I introspect over it, even as I try to look a second time at some art, while outright skipping other common trends I see.

eeehhhh,,, yeah...
This happens.
A lot.
:-/

Same. I've watched people before and then they suddenly post something way out there than whatever else I've seen in their gallery or in their favs and it's just like....aaaaand I no longer wish to associate.

Now I wonder what could have been that particularly bad..

Let me put it this way.. there is a reason i am avoiding the bulk of so-called "social" media like the proverbial plague. Primarily because I don't want to be dragged into drama by ideologues or crybullies. And for the most part it has worked just fine for me. I just prefer not to get involved - and offer the same to others: So long as what a given person is into is legal, I have no problem with it. Sure, I may find some things distasteful, but that is it. I've seen way too much emotional manipulation throughout my life - and therefore have developed a strong mental gag-reflex whenever I am exposed to such attempts. You do you, so let me be me.

I take it, you probs wouldn't be following me, considering my "tastes" (Nothing gory, just kinky)

I think this happened to some people following DHC or having a DHC-suit as well as those allegedly being involved with certain Cub-Art (Cubs with Captions)

This is one of the problems of browsing this site in sfw mode: occasionally I'll turn it off to check something linked by someone I know, forget to turn it in again, and good golly I didn't know someone drew that sort of stuff!

Undiscovering new kinks, ...

e621 filters.

Saw a really cute piece of art.

Clicked on the artist, over 300 submissions.

Page shows that really cute piece of art and everything else was keyword blocked.

😭

Yep sadly I've missed red flags like this and found out later down the line that one of my close friends was very much... questionable / illegal so yeah. very relatable

Well, that's just silly. There are artists that I like that are convicted criminals. Art is art and it has nothing to do with the artist.

Oh my god this happens way too much!!!

Yeeeah I know this feeling.

I've more recently been doing something similar using journals. One thing I've found is that there is a very strong relationship between serious bigotry and a declining trend in both the quality and quality of creative output. Thus, even if you don't care about the artist being, well, scum it can be worth a check if you don't like watching artists switch from doing art to making their money by being 'patreonized' for anti-virtue signalling.

I really wish you could follow someone on Twitter but set it to only see their own posts without likes and retweets.

I followed someone who occasionally posted fun and insightful writings, but between those posts they retweeted a lot of unfunny memes and other nonsense. Nothing bad per se, but it got annoying to have my feed fill up with retweeted white noise so I had to unfollow them.

Depends. It's also a nifty way to reconnect with old chums, which is what I wound up doing back in '07 when I went active here...

u uh shivers

Liking their work doesn't mean you support every facet of their life. That's guilt by association.

Separating the art from the artist is a dilemma that goes way back and carries across many facets of An Artist's personality, taste, and politics. It's an ongoing thing, and a decision everyone has to make for themselves. Do you have to suddenly throw away everything done by a particular artist, actor, author, musician, comedian, etc. when they do something reprehensible?

One might also consider cutting people a certain amount of slack for personal taste. Don't kinkshame. Consider some things you may like that others could find offensive and where lines might really need to be drawn.

Personally, I find there are quite a few people who I find offensive for one reason or another whose art I like. I generally try to keep these things separate, but it IS difficult for it not to color how I feel about their work. Whether I like their work or not certainly doesn't give them a pass or prevent me from criticizing them, however.

As I said below, a good article on the subject: https://www.nationalreview.com/wp-c....._20220502.html

Good article on a related subject:

https://www.nationalreview.com/wp-c....._20220502.html

Yep, these are things we all have to wrestle with and come to our own often even confusing or ambivalent conclusions on.

(nods) Yep.

Know how this is a bit all to well. Though I don't really look at favorites of others as that's what they do and like, as long as not anything of vile nature like sexism/racism/fascism kind of things. I'm more interested in what they make themselves for their art gallery. The content they make for their gallery will overall often reflect who they are and what they like. Makes having to look at their favorites non needed usually. If they make enough content to my interests and outweighs the content I don't have interest in I'll follow, else pass by or unfollow if they've changed what they make since I followed them a long time ago.

Social Media, like Twitter, is quite different and overall what a person does there or follows reflects entirely on their profile and themselves which can warrant a quick sudden unfollow (or follow).

Rather cowardly of a user to harangue me, then block me so I can't respond. How very classy.

Nothing stopping you from responding...

It is pretty lame though, IMO.

Sad part is, I was gonna agree. Racism is racism, no matter what color.

See, this is why I don't block people. It shuts down discussion, and it's completely cowardly to snipe and block.

Here's the thing though: They had a completely valid point, and you're dodging it.

Racism is the oppression of one racial group by another. It's widespread and systemic. It's a question of people with more power exploiting, dominating, or oppressing another group with less power. It has extremely serious real world impacts on the lives and psyches of the people being oppressed.

"Reverse racism" simply doesn't exist because the group with less power doesn't have the ability to exploit, dominate, or oppress the more powerful group. They could be prejudiced, they could even discriminate, but it's impossible for them to use racism because they're not in a position to do so.

So if somebody uses the term "Reverse racism" or says things like "Raciss", or "Dat's wacist", -which are obviously mocking phrases- they're either ignorant of what racism really is, or they're supporting racism. That's why people object to that kind of language. It supports racism.

Racism is the oppression of one racial group by another. It's widespread and systemic. It's a question of people with more power exploiting, dominating, or oppressing another group with less power. It has extremely serious real world impacts on the lives and psyches of the people being oppressed.

Precisely. Which makes things like affirmative action, where people with more power are oppressing another group with less power simply because the oppressed group used to be the oppressors, racist. Not justice, vengeance.

Affirmative action is an attempt to even the odds for the oppressed group in a very narrow circumstance. Once again, you could possibly term it prejudicial or discriminatory, but it's not racist. It still doesn't undo the overall balance of power to any significant extent. No one is being oppressed in the case of affirmative action. And vengeance has absolutely nothing to do with it, that's just paranoid.

(shrugs) Tell that to the deserving students, workers et cetera denied education, jobs et cetera because they were allegedly part of the oppressor class while incompetent members of the 'oppressed' class were given positions they couldn't handle and were ill-suited to.

For the record, I favor a meritocracy.

It usually isn't -and really has no reason to be- a zero sum game. The very idea that you assume it grants benefits to less qualified people just shows that you don't understand how affirmative action actually works. It's also, by default, pretty damned racist.

It's also quite interesting that affirmative action seems to be the only instance of "Reverse racism" that conservatives are ever able to come up with.

And meritocracy is an illusion in a society with entrenched systemic racism, and hence just perpetuates the racism.

Yes, well, keep believing that. I'm reasonably sure I'm in the right here. :)

I will, because the evidence supports it.

And as always, you're entitled to your opinion, but I believe that you're wrong. We need to take positive steps if we ever wish to end racism.

I rather do the same if it was very inappropriate.

I don't really think there is separating the art from the artists. By supporting the art they make, you are supporting the artist themselves because you cannot just have the art without the person who makes the art. There is no art without the artist.

At least here on FA you only get their posts and journals. Unless you check their Favorite manually, you'll never see them. And I think I prefer it that way. "Reblogging" or whatever is kinda overrated.

Though at least Tumblr seems to have cut down on some of the nastiness on their site. =P

Yup. I feel this. There is content I won't support nor anyone who does (aka faves/reblogs it). You aren't alone.

Yes I am