#effective interrogation

[pjs-everyday]

*immediately loses their cool* lmao 🤓 // linework >> grayscale // ko-fi

[direquail]

You know the point of "protecting the children" dogwhistles, right? It's a reference to the idea that all queer people are child abusers. Super common belief among homophobes and transphobes, including (sometimes especially) gay ones.

It's also not just "a dogwhistle". When pressed to explain what exactly they want to protect children from, it's a ready-made emotional appeal to something that has broad social support. Most people, even if they don't like being around kids, are also not pro-child abuse. That's why conservatives go out of their way to invent (even if it's completely fictional) "reasons" why acceptance of gay and trans people amounts to child abuse. It helps them create an emotional connection with their target audience, and can be leveraged into logically ridiculous arguments like "well, if you don't agree with my platform, you must be pro child abuse, because I'm on the side of The Children".

"Protecting the children" is also super appealing to parents in particular, not because all parents are secretly authoritarians, but because it's super common to have a child and realize "Oh shit, I brought this person who can't defend themselves into the world and the world kind of sucks", and to feel horribly, horribly inadequate in the face of that.

I get very tired of people who mock, scorn, and ridicule people for falling for these rhetorical traps, or being snared by something that seems common-sense but disguises something ugly underneath. They are traps. That is what they're meant to be. That is why there are gay people who fall for anti-queer rhetoric, and get pulled into exclusionist or violently reactionary circles. We all have things we are vulnerable to, whether that is a history of being abused or a deep fear that we cannot protect our own children, who we brought into the world and are responsible for the protection of. And we gain nothing by mocking the latter.

I'm sure it makes some people feel great to say "well if you were really who you claim to be, you wouldn't fall for this shit", but frankly, that's a stupid-ass take. It misses entirely that these messages are carefully crafted by the people who hate us! They workshop these statements! They spend months or years trying to find the right message and when they find it they use the hell out of it, because it works. Because they are listening to the public conversations people are having online, and it doesn't take any level of basic agreement to be capable of regurgitating the party line word-for-word.

I am so sick of people who look at a deeply-embedded struggle over social and political ideals and think that this fight won't demand our whole brains and hearts and souls and yeah, we might fuck up because we care deeply and sometimes, people with bad intentions prey on that. On our grief and our fear and our rage.

And I'm frankly a lot more nervous around people who refuse to be aware of that, especially when they loudly mock the people who are willing to acknowledge their own fallibility and explore how they got ensnared in something. People are not moral machines, they are people.

[spreens]

the more i learn/think about qcellbit the more i love him. he killed someone in prison. he hopped on some fucking cargo ship which crashed and then got trapped. unwilling and completely accidental child adoption. he has designer eyebags and chainsaw scars and is building a stimulant tolerance that would blow out the top floor of a building. he has fifty complexes and is routinely tormented by the Horrors. guy ever.

[mmelolabelle]

incorrect star wars: anakin whenever he has to account for his latest war crimes “I shouldn’t have to ask you to lie for me. I shouldn’t have to ask your permission to put you in my lie. You know why? Cause you’re my best fuckin’ friend, bitch. That’s your job.”

[befuddled-calico-whump]

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[librathefangirl]

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[piracytheorist]

It's in the nature of being in the fandom of a spy-themed medium that you'll see takes from fans that go like "torture is an effective method of obtaining information".

That said, it doesn't mean I'm gonna shut up about it. Cause it's not, a lot of media that portray it as such do it as a form of copaganda and of making torture more acceptable to the general public. High criminal organizations (including police and military) are very aware that torture doesn't work for information. They use it as a form of punishment, setting examples, and control. Also, the people shown to be tortured in such media are, in real life, usually much harder to crack, super loyal to their cause and when tortured they can spew any kinds of lies that will make the pain stop. And so the criminals tortured someone just to get a flat out lie out of them. Negotiations and bribes can actually be effective, because through discussion you can fish a truth out of someone, and no one is immune to the promise of a better life.

And with media perpetuating the narrative that torture is effective, it only makes torture more palatable to the general public and thus giving such organizations a "pass" to torture people, including innocents. Cause hey, in the tiny case that by torturing this person we can get how to save other hypothetical victims, torturing them is worth it, right? Even if we don't have concrete evidence that that person knows something, right?

[torybrennan]

show tempe gang crossover with the morris islanders would actually have been the best episode of bones ever. btw

[shalom-iamcominghome]

I was sad initially when my plans had to change to go to community college, but frankly, I feel so much safer here being visibly jewish (in the sense that goyim don't question if you're jewish if you Look the part). The only thing that sucks is I don't think there's any community here, which, you know, is funny.

[spiderwarden]

Y’know… *stirs tea* For all of those Drow OCs out there I hc that the Paladins of Lolth were culture and religion enforcers… for those who want to write secret follows of Eilistraee or anyone thinking of rebelling in the Underdark, that means they can shit their pants when a literal rebel hunter like Minthara shows up. (Let alone the LEADER of said rebel hunters.)

[princehatterene]

also hi how has everyone been. i've been thinkin about my modern aa oc

[elizabethrobertajones]

You know, in hindsight, this is a callout post from Thancred:

[politeparadox]

I'm thinking about becoming a video essay v-tuber

[dxxtruction]

VENT - I feel like if there was better education around abuse and violence, and abuse and violence prevention, we'd be able to interrogate more how it is so much a community, cultural, and systemic problem, and arguably less of an individual one. This does not dissuade any fault individuals have in creating violence and perpetrating abuse, just so no one's confused here. We have to see that violence and abuse perpetrators do take the responsibility for their actions. Obviously. But to open this up to wider responsibility would lead to far better discussions about wtf was going on at the anti-black lynch trail wrt Armand's complicity and level of fault in it.

Far too many people are unwilling to see that he was not the one to orchestrate or plan this, because they'd rather pin violence and abuse all onto a single individual. (Which is dehumanizing btw, to us even because it implies we've accepted these terms for ourselves as well).

This is an expectation I'm aware just isn't possible though, and Interview!Fandom certainly is not ready to confront this. Not everyone was when it came to the abuse Lestat perpetrated in S1 (those who watched an entirely different show apparently and deny how race played a role in the violence and abuse, throughout just everything not just Lestat). So it's just gonna be me and the handful of others IG. Shout out.

(more to this in OP tags)

[befuddled-calico-whump]

sahota has a lot of back scars, was he ever whipped? (you dont have to answer if its spoiler)

I don't have specific instances to quote, but he has indeed been whipped before, on more than one occasion :)

[greghatecrimes]

the shopping trip scene is one of the best scenes in the entire series ajdjfjjdnwmsmdkdmsns