Saying “this niche, properly tagged, warned, and rated piece of fiction could theoretically hurt someone” is not a good argument. This properly labeled cookie with the allergen information at the bottom that contains gluten could theoretically harm me very badly, but only if I consume it. Tags are like nutrition labels, and warnings are like allergy information. If you know you have an allergy to something, the logic is to stay away from it. It is the same with fiction. I’m not running through stores yelling at people to take all the products with gluten off the shelves just because it could hurt me. Instead I ignore it and go to the gluten free section and find cookies that are right for me. And if running through a grocery store yelling sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is. Stop doing the same with fiction.
tumblr people focus so much on a hyper-superficial understanding of fascism that they reduce “watching out for fascists” to looking for signs of Pepe the Frog and meanwhile endorse full blown fascist rhetoric like that “Culture isnt meant to be shared, culture is about tradition, family etc” post or engage in what amounts of unintentional apologetics like that post that said Nazis never burned nasty literary porn
we are in a media literacy crisis
I've seen a surge of antis calling themselves punk/alt, and I just wanna make this clear:
Book-burning conservatives are not punk, sorry... :/
Do you count disgusting gross and criminal people that read stuff like sexual assault, underage and incest in books or those people that wrote them? Because that's not a cop in your head that's just plain illegal, especially if it's painted positively like Game Of Thrones; IT; SNOW, GLASS, APPLES; and Lolita. Two of those stories have been banned for a good reason, they're plain moral degeneration and have caused society great harm.
most literate tumblr user
Just kids bein’ kids
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whenever i see that post about swapping female characters with male ones in video games i always think about this
" despite this anime being pedophilic, I really enjoyed it"
Well. that say a lot about your morality, this anime is pedophilic (by your standards) but you watched it anyway. Doesn't that mean you don't care about child abuse as long as it entertains you? Are you the GOOD and SAFE person to be around children?
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