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I love you Two Spirit Systems. I'm glad you're here

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Here we go again. Doing the feet tomorrow.

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Repeat after me: kink is not a "gateway" to committing a crime.

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Hot take: I don't care if someone "contributes to society" or not. They are a person and still deserve human rights, food, and shelter.

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When it comes to cancellation as social tactic, I am completely neutral, and I will be addressing it neutrally in this piece.

I do not believe, as some social-justice-oriented thinkers do, that “cancellation is not real” or that it is merely “accountability.” People close to me have been forced out of queer and artistic communities because someone with more social power demanded that the collective cut them off urgently and for vaguely articulated reasons, and threatened other vulnerable people with social ostracism if they did not comply.

Often, abuse accusations are not taken seriously, and cancellations don’t do a thing, it’s true — but sometimes, a person is accused of abuse by their abuser, or powerful people bring forward allegations of wrongdoing in order to oust a person who is already broadly disliked in their communities (because they are “creepy” or “awkward” or visibly addicted/mad/neurodivergent), and it does ruin their life.

Intheir desperation to prove their innocence, vulnerable people do things that inspire more intense social attacks — like sharing huge amounts of unflattering personal information, profusely apologizing in a hasty way that can easily be picked apart, fighting and fawning with critics in the comments, making up transparent self-serving lies, fixating on their cancellation to the point of obsession, using substances heavily, self-harming, and various other “sins“ that mostly amount to being publicly distressed.

The mob gathers when they smell blood in the water. And a lot of people on the internet believe that the worst thing you can be is annoying or crazy.

I don’t want to see things like this happening anymore. And so I am sharing my tips for anyone who finds themselves on the receiving end of a cancellation attempt, be it large or small, and would like to minimize the fallout on their life as best they can. I also know that a lot of vulnerable people worry about being cancelled constantly, and I think having a strategy for dealing with it in your back pocket can help quell those fears.

Again, these tactics treat cancellation completely neutrally: for the purposes of this piece, I do not care whether you did something wrong or you didn’t, whether some of the public censure you’re facing is reasonable or all of it is not. My purpose here is to help you respond to what is happening in a level-headed way that does not inflame unnecessary conflict or lead to you getting attacked further, so that you can make your own decisions about what accountability you owe.

What to do if you get cancelled online:

1. Do not acknowledge the call-out publicly.

Responding to the call-out will onlyfurther its spread, and lend it legitimacy. Even if you make a post attempting to disprove the call-out, people will interpret your defensive reaction as a sign of guilt. When you issue a public statement about a topic as fraught as a public accusation, it signals to everyone that something very important is going on, and it makes them curious to learn more, and ensures that the accusations stick more firmly in their minds. Furthermore, posting publicly about your accusations indicates to anyone who bears you ill will that you are rattled and feeling socially threatened. It rewards the behavior.

2. Do not act out of urgency.

One of the ways that cancelled people get themselves in far worse trouble is by spiraling due to anxiety and rushing to issue a statement about what has happened, or to attempt to socially manage public impressions about what has happened.

Do not do this. Anything that you say will be picked apart and used against you by those who are hell-bent on doing so. A hasty statement will not satisfy anyone; it will excite them. The situation is truly not as urgent as it might feel. A lot of times, doing nothing and being quiet is the best way to proceed, and the dust will settle better if you do.

3. Do not issue a public apology.

If you truly feel that you have wronged someone, that conflict should be worked out in private with the people you have directly affected. You do not owe the anonymous public audience a damn thing.

Do not apologize for something you don’t honestly believe that you have done wrong. Do not apologize if you do not understand the nature of what you are being accused of. Do not apologize for how other people are interpreting your actions. Do not apologize to make yourself look better.

No matter how carefully you craft your apology, people will be able to get the stink of PR from it, and will criticize it from a variety of contradictory angles — it is too vague, it over-explains, it centers you too much, it doesn’t own up to your full part in things, it minimizes what happened, it’s just for show, it took too long, it came out too soon to be heartfelt, you didn’t mean it.

Don’t try to satisfy a public that is setting out not to be satisfied. Take time and really think about what happened, and seek the counsel of people whom you trust in PRIVATE.

I wrote a list of 10 tips for the cancelled. You can read it in full for free on my Substack.

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Hello friends, there's a dogwhistle I've seen used a couple times on tumblr that I want to discuss.

Fellow neurodivergents especially, please listen-- towards the end of this post I describe how some in our community have been using it without knowing what it means.

A fairly common antisemitic dogwhistle used amongst alt-right circles on the internet is being a "noticer," "noticing patterns," "pattern noticer," etc. I've seen this from a couple Tumblr blogs I follow reblogging memes and such that use this term but don't provide any context about what sorts of "things" they may be noticing.

Here's the meme that I saw a blog I'm following reblog last night.

Seems pretty harmless, right? It's a meme with a cute cat.

In alt-right circles, what they are referring to "noticing" is the conspiracy theory that Jews control the world/"noticing" evidence of an imagined globalist (read: Jewish) world order/etc. If you see a meme that uses terms like "noticing patterns" that doesn't elaborate what those supposed patterns are-- just leaves you to fill in the blank yourself-- take a look at the types of things OP might be posting. The alt-right has an idea that it's forbidden to talk about who might be behind the "conspiracies" they talk about (again, the target is frequently Jewish people) so lack of context is often a red flag.

I sent the blog who reblogged this an ask informing them that the meme was a dogwhistle. If you see someone reblog something like this, check what they've been posting. If this seems like an isolated incident, the person probably reblogged it not knowing what the term actually meant. That's why dogwhistles are so effective-- to the average person they look harmless if you don't know what to watch out for!

Let's take a look at how alt-righters use this term.

Here's an alt-right definition of it from Urban Dictionary.

Oh boy, this one gets a bigotry bingo for all the dogwhistles used here. If I miss any, feel free to comment. Here are the ones I found:

-Noseticing: Noticing plus nose, based on the stereotype for Jewish people to have large noses.

-"those who cannot be named"/skirting around saying Jew: again the idea that it's forbidden to talk about who they think is behind their conspiracy theories.

-"world events and agendas": idea that Jewish people have a Globalist agenda etc etc

-Degeneracy: Nazi term to describe the behaviors/people they find undesirable.

-Early life: refers to the section in a person's Wikipedia page. If a person was brought up Jewish, it'll usually say so there.

-Oy vey: a Jewish exclamation of exasperation that Nazis have unfortunately co-opted when talking about Jewish people.

Here's probably the most obviously antisemitic meme I found.

The title and first bullet point include the "noticer" term. This meme also talks about a "group" who controls wealth. Who might the poster be referring to here?

Here's a Twitter account with many similar alt-right terms. Explicitly identifies as a Nazi and ethno-nationalist, etc etc.

A couple other pages. I clicked on them to see if I could find any more examples but the first seemed pretty blank and the second... Well, I don't have a twitter so I couldn't view.

Let's unpack these a little. The first one has "13 outta 52," a statistic used among white supremacists to depict Black people (especially African-Americans) as "savage": 13 referring to the percentage of America that is Black and 52 referring to the alleged percentage of murders in the U.S. that are committed by Black people. "109 countries" refers to the idea that Jewish people have been expelled from 109 countries during history. (Which isn't entirely true. Some "countries" in this count are actually cities, regions, etc.) Some white supremacists may use the number 110 instead to suggest that it should happen again.

The second one has a blurb alleging a global sterilization effort and concerns of fertility. This is likely in connection to pro-natalism for white people. If Nazis want a so-called "Aryan nation," they're going to want white people to populate it, and so they encourage white people to have babies for their cause. Nazi Germany employed this tactic as well, even awarding "Aryan" German women who had four or more children for their contributions to the Nazi cause.

The reason why I'm emphasizing that context matters is that some neurodivergent people have seen this and co-opted it into neurodivergent circles. As a person who is Jewish and autistic, this is pretty alarming to me. I'll show a couple examples from Tumblr:

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I've left out the URLs of the OPs because I want to give the benefit of the doubt-- they both explicitly refer to being a "pattern noticer" in terms of neurodivergence. And it's easy to see why introducing this term to ND folks would be an easy way to get a dogwhistle passed off as harmless! Since autistic people often have analytical minds, we often make connections that others might not be able to see. But unfortunately, using terms like this only makes it much easier for antisemites to fly under the radar.

Stay safe and let's keep Tumblr free of this shit.

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Fandoms stopped being a fun escape from reality when people started spreading the belief that you should prioritize purity over pleasure and the art you create must be a reflection of your moral standards at all times.

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Believe it or not, your internalized ableism probably DOES rub off onto others without you realizing it. I have always had extreme pain while walking ever since I could remember. My parents constantly told me it was because I never exercised enough, so I learned to just shut it down and be quiet.

I catch myself feeling weird and confused when someone else, “can’t just be quiet and suck it up too.” However, I never want to perpetuate that onto someone.

I remember how it felt to be holding back tears as it felt like my bones were going to snap. I remember how it felt when I stepped wrong and had to hold back a scream. That wasn’t fair to me, and it will never be fair to others.

Sometimes dismantling your self hate dismantles all hate.

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here's a hypothetical I'd love to see folks' responses to:

you are dead. your descendants (whether by blood or by spirit) are making an altar to honor you, their beloved ancestor that they did not know in life.

what offerings should your descendants put on an ancestor altar to honor you?

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radagon is marika.

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I assure you: somebody, somewhere, is on the exact same wavelength as you are.

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FINALLY finished drawing what Orion looks like!

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what are the dynamics between all of these people. ive been reading some of the long documents and things but theres a lot and i'm confused. is there a connection map or something. i know salem and his gf but who are all the other names and why are they relevant

salem and wis are self explanitory.

pocket-deer-boy, patricia-taxxon, isuggestforcefem, pawberri, xxacid-nekoxx, mari / meggiebun, and majora are the most frequently mentioned associates of salem and wis. most of them engage within radqueer circles, advocate for "free expression" of kinks such as zoophilia or "forceplural", encourage minors to be within their +18 spaces, defend predatory actions such as masturbating on call with minors, and have actually gone and victimized/sexually assaulted other people. despite these varying offenses. salem and wis continue to interact within these circles and are most often defended by these types, as well as defending and platforming these types back.

sawyer / razzicetea, luluyam, cass, torins victims (who for various reasons i continue to anonymyze), are the people victimized by both salem and wis (via both targetted harassment, and platforming of their abusers). i have attempted to collect their statements against wis/salem both and their respective abusers, here.

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Woofles is now directly interacting with Acidneko on bluesky by the way.

Acidneko is someone known to have said that they wanted to expose unknowing and uncomfortable people to "ambiguous" underage art.

On top of that, Acidneko also directly interacts with Salem (Wolfertinger666) aka Puppychan. Salem is his own can of racism, pedophilia, and beastiality, but you can see this post for a bit more info on him. On top of that, please check the account @/wolfertinger if you wish to know more detail about the horrible things he's said and done. Please be careful because a lot of things Salem has done are EXTREMELY nsfw and vile, therefore the account is unsafe for minors to look at.

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I just sold my copy of Warioware Twisted so I deleted my save data. This is what the game tells you afterward

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I wish they could invent a medical device that temporarily transfers your symptoms and pain to the doctor treating you and it worked like a shock collar. “I think light exercise would-.” and then bam they’re rolling around the floor clutching their stomach in agony and dry heaving.