#swear to fuck you people think a dogwhistle means

[madtomedgar]

It's sure something that every post about violence, civilians, human rights, pacifism, war, or activism strategies is now assumed to be a post about IP and proof of the poster's secret evil beliefs. Especially if the Op is Jewish or has Jewish mutuals. Definitely this won't have negative ripple effects.

[satedsaint]

i downloaded the tumblr app just so that i could dunk this fucking comment.

you guys hate lesbians so fucking much. i swear to god i've seen maybe two posts from lesbians (not radfems) joking or complaining about men at chappell concerts. and yet i see multiple thousand note posts disavowing these women for being "exclusionist" or Whatever the fuck. we are literally inventing a problem like guys no this time i promise men are oppressed. guys i promise this time it's real. the cishets are in danger we need to save them from the mean scary lesbians oops i mean radfems :( meanwhile you all let terfs run rampant on this site.

i think it’s insane that chappell can say things like “i want to see more lesbians!” and people can see that as a BAD thing. i swear some of you are stupid on purpose because god fucking knows you wouldn’t see discourse about this if she hadn’t identified as a lesbian. like i’m sorry you all hate a woman looking for her community so bad and think it’s some kind of dogwhistle but i genuinely cannot help you.

i’m tired of self-righteous posts condemning lesbians for being upset at CISHET MEN in a queer space (and again, to be VERY clear. this is such a small minority of people complaining that i swear you’re looking for them on purpose so that you can whine and complain about the oppressed straight cis men.) like tell me have you ever seen a post where someone goes “god i hate those queer gay and trans men at chappell roan concerts. those guys specifically!!!” like do you know anyone even a little normal who would say that. or is it more important to let everyone know that lesbians looking for their space and their people is evil and we should let cis men come be straight at our shit. no thank you

[thurisazsalail]

i have a recurring fantasy

where i travel back in time to the 70s

and yeah i gotta be careful because of some shit that people didn’t like about me in USA 1970s 

but then i meet some famous people and tell them about my future and shit because fuck, the 70s??? lol what are they gonna do, force me to give birth??? make me tell about how i was assaulted so that the cop can vicariously relive being the perpetrator? baby i’m from florida

all those sci-fi shows and books about how you can’t tell people from the past who you are and what the future holds

fuck that

i have SEEN, WITH MY EYES, swastika flags so fucking big they were in the back of pickup trucks downtown. like, for real-real, in real life. i have seen hate group mailers leafed around downtown, filled with the usual scare-tactic dogwhistles that many people do not recognise as dog whistles. i didn’t even know some of them when someone posted it in a neighbourhood group. they didn’t understand what they had been given. it was an elderly lady who was afraid and generally well-meaning and wanted to keep her neighbours safe. that’s how they find people. you might not JOIN their hate group, but you’ll slowly come around to their ideology through this coded shit.

and these were popping up 10 years ago

and lawyers here got big mad in groups, like regular nextdoor/fb type groups, because it’s freedom of speech and it’s protected and if we don’t like it then we don’t like america

vice news published a whole big article about how wealthy billionaires are stealing buying blood from orgs like the red cross and having them infused because they think drinking infusing the blood of children will make them live longer (that’s a rewording of violent antisemitic medieval tropes that helped cause pogroms, like localized genocides)

y’all afraid of me changing the future by telling it to you? BOY HAVE I GOT SHIT TO SAY AND I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHERE TO START. idk it’s the 70s, maybe vietnam i guess

PLEASE CHANGE MY FUTURE. PLEASE NEVER LET THIS HAPPEN. PLEASE SWEAR TO ME. THERE’S GONNA BE A “WE ARE THE WORLD” AND I’LL HEAR ABOUT IT IN 30 YEARS ON VH1′S RETRO-SPECT LATER, BUT FUCK, RIGHT NOW, HELP US. THERE IS STILL TIME.

[asettledsky]

Antis are so fucking sensitive, I swear. Everything is a dogwhistle to them.

But no, saying that you shouldn't bully people over a longstanding, well established ship between two characters just because the actors wrote their own backstory is not "tactically endorsing" anything.

Pints & Rags is a good ship, and there is literally nothing on screen that says they're related. 🙃

I mean, I don't fucking care if people who think they're related ship them anyway, that's on them. (That is an example of tacitly endorsing incest shipping, just so you understand the difference.) But I have never seen them that way and canon doesn't explicitly say so. So fuck you.

[larktb-archive]

Hi! I'm too shy to come off anon, but I need your help understanding something. I hope I'm not bothering you!!

I don't want to interact with anyone who is a fascist, but I'm not entirely sure what makes someone fascist. Can you please explain it to me?

I know I could look it up myself, but I know that not all definitions online can be correct and I just want your perspective;;

Thanks!

Hi anon! Well, fascism comes in many forms so “sussing out who’s a fascist” is technically a little harder to do than having a simple checklist. After all, doesn’t a White Supremacist have different beliefs to a Japanese fascist? And doesn’t a Japanese fascist have different beliefs to a Wahabist? These beliefs clash don’t they? Well, yes and no. Sure the surface level beliefs are different but the underlying core beliefs of these groups are actually quite similar; it’s the specifics which are different. Even though it isn’t a “bible” on what is fascism and shouldn’t be taken as gospel, Umberto Eco has an essay called “Ur-Fascism” which contains 14 points, which can help us identify whether certain beliefs are fascist no matter the specifics of their belief system. I’ll explain the points in short and give some examples. Quick disclaimer, I am not an expert on fascism or any of the ideologies I’ll discuss by any means so if you aren’t taking Umberto Eco’s writing as the 100% correct truth, definitely don’t take mine as that either (this is how you should treat most sources tho):

1. Cult of Tradition and 2. Rejection of modernity

I put these two together because they’re kind of inseparable. This is basically the idea that there was a “glorious past” that people need to return to and modernity is a corruption of that “glorious past”. In British fascist thought, this past is generally the 19th century at the zenith of the British Empire or mid-20th century Britain. The latter is more common for people who wish to be a little more PC with their writings; instead of trying to use a by-gone era that pretty much no one alive can remember, they use a much more recent time with nostalgic ideas of “the good old days” which doesn’t seem threatening on it’s surface but is dogwhistling for a time when there weren’t as many immigrants in the country.

You may have seen the “reject modernity, embrace tradition” meme and it’s pretty much the most obvious incarnation of this idea. Similarly you may seen people online use “degenerate” as an insult. If you look at the meaning of the degenerate it means “having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline”; it’s microcosm of these ideas put into a single insult. This is why you tend to see conservatives use it more than progressives.

I’d also argue that terfs obsession with 2nd wave feminism and their utter rejection of intersectionality and modern feminism is another manifestation of this idea. 

3. Action for actions sake

This is less detectable in terms of individuals but still important to note that these people tend to support action without a cause. Sure the insurrection at the white house earlier this year was action, but it had no substance behind it. It was action for actions sake, which is why any principled leftist didn’t support it. Fascists will tend to openly just call for action but won’t be very specific about the purposes of the action; as long as they agree with the ideology behind it they’ll support it. It’s why fascists love harassment campaigns and mindless acts of terror. Take Wahabist terrorist orgs like Al-Qaeda or ISIS, it doesn’t matter if bombing an Ariana Grande concert has no point, the only point is the action itself.

4. Disagreement is treason  

This one’s pretty self explanatory, they will ostracize you if you disagree with them. Again, terfs tend to do this, and I had a long conversation with an ex-terf I called a dumbass, who basically said that she was ostracized by them and mocked for having different beliefs (hope she’s doing well actually). There’s numerous stories from ex-terfs like this.

5. Fear of difference

There’s a tendency for fascists to group people into “us” and “them”. “They” are considered to be intruders who need to be removed whereas “we” are the people who deserve to be here because it is “our” right to be here. In Zulu Nationalism, this tends to be any non-Zulu speakers who they deem to be “Shangaan” even if they aren’t actually Tsonga, it’s just a pejorative at this point. If you see vague references to the “elite” without any reference to who they are and what makes them “elite”, this is tends to be a dogwhistle for Jewish people. Western Fascists have very little issue with the workings of capitalism itself or the accumulation of wealth by capitalists, they just don’t like “them”, taking “our” stuff. Any references to “us” and “them” is pretty much a red flag.

6. Appeal to Social Frustration

Fascists will tend to brush upon actual issues faced by the poor today but will instead blame it on an outside force. You’ll see job loss being blamed on immigrants or vague “elites”. Terfs do this too. They’ll see young girls who are genuinely struggling with patriarchal issues and divert all that pent up rage towards trans people and the “q*eers” (which they do tend to use as a slur unlike what most people would have you think). 

7. Obsession with a Plot

Everything is a conspiracy! The election was rigged! 9/11 was fake! that fucking pizza place/this furniture company is a sex ring! All of these are supposedly plots by the deep state who are trying to do... something or other. You’ll notice these “Plots” don’t actually have a purpose, but the fact that there is a plot itself is the issue. This is a way of engendering paranoia in the group while also feeling that there is a constant war against you even if there isn’t. This is also why, despite news sources being pro-capitalist the right will swear up and down it’s leftist media which is controlled by “them” (usually just meaning Jewish people).

8. The enemy is both strong and weak

“Trans people have infiltrated academia and the only reason people refuse to see gender as an immutable biological concept, is because they’re too afraid of the trans cabal to say anything. But also everyone can tell trans people are crazy and haha you have a high suicide rate.” It’s contradictory that’s the point. They need to feel that they’re both counterculture but also they need to be winning at all times so that contradiction is necessary. Also the use of the word “cabal” is a pretty big red flag for all forms of fascism.

9. Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy, 10. Contempt for the weak, 11. Everybody is educated to become a hero and 12. Machismo and weaponry

All of these are kind of interrelated so I’m grouping them together (also this is already fucking long as hell so I don’t wanna bore you any further). You’ll tend to see a love for the military or at least military aesthetics when looking through fascist blogs. Guns aren’t just a tool for fascists, they’re representative of masculinity and the necessity of violence. Pacifists and anyone who refuses to fight are weak and therefore are “degenerate”. If you do not fight, if you are not willing to fight, you cannot be a “hero” (an ubermensch or a matyr). This comes with the fetishization of violence instead of the recognition of violence being an means to an end, and the worship of individuals rather than of communities and organizations. Take Japanese fascists and their lionisation of the imperial military and their desire to once again have an actual army.

Terfs don’t necessarily fit these roles except for arguably 10 considering how much they seem to look down upon the mentally ill and those who commit suicide and surprisingly 11 since that involves the hatred of non-standard sexual activities and terfs hate non-standard sex (this is from the most vanilla bitch who is very uncomfortable with kink but understands its not inherently good or bad). I have a feeling this is more so because terfs are mainly women (there are male terfs ofc) whereas this was written for male led organizations. 

13. Selective populism

When fascists talk about “the people” they tend to mean “the people we like”. “The working class” can be translated to “this cishet white christian man from Minnesota who owns land but hey he lives in a rural area so he’s working class right?”. They’ll also tend to have “tokens” who will suddenly become the mouth piece of the entire community they’re supposedly representing even if no one in the community asked them to (i.e. Milo Yiannopoulos). 

14. Ur fascism speaks Newspeak

They speak in terms which are both inaccessible to anyone outside of their circles whilst being so simple that once you learn them it becomes easy to understand. They abhor any form of “academic” speech so you’ll rarely see them source things (unless those things happen to agree with their views, which is rare but Jordan Peterson is popular for a reason) and if they do source things they probably wouldn’t have read them fully and will rely on you also not reading them. This is to limit any critical thinking so that your brain is basically jellified into an unquestioning organ which only responds “yes” or “no” and only appeals to a higher authority without any form of reasoning involved. This is why they complain about “the lefts memes being too wordy”... because they’re used to not having to read (this is somewhat tongue in cheek but heyho if the boot fits).

And that’s the 14 main features of fascism, if anyone is displaying multiple of these ideas then they are most likely fascist, and if an organization or group continuously replicates these ideas, then they are definitely fascist. I hope this wasn’t too long but like I said... very complex topic. (Also hopefully this is written well, it’s 10 PM and I am surviving off Irn Bru energy drink). Hope this helped!

[plaindealingvillainess]

Just thought you should know that theremharts is a known bully and troll who destroyed most of the Babylon 5 fandom a few years ago. He tends to harass people for having any opinion he does not agree with and then painting them as homophobic and transphobic, and he started at least one hate blog. Don't think you are safe because he hasn't attacked you yet, as soon as you do the tiniest thing he dislikes he will come for you.

I swear to fucking god the last thing I have the emotional energy to deal with is a NEW ROUND OF UNEXPECTED BABYLON 5 DRAMA.

1) I have no idea who that is 2) there is no blog under that url 3) “painting them as homophobic and transphobic” can be a major dogwhistle

Anon, I choose to believe you honestly mean well. Obviously someone who creates hate blogs and harasses others has no place in our fandom, and I appreciate the impulse to try and keep others safe. But this ask contains no evidence and I cannot figure out for the life of me why it was sent to me. If you’d like to discuss this off anon, let me know.

[tenitchyfingers]

i mean ngl i didn't really see it as a dog whistle due to how the tumblr community is weird about disability- like, it borders on anti-healing, especially with mental illness. but if you say so :V

1/2 hm, i'm thinking a bit more. I /think/ i see how it could be a dog whistle- it's again kids before moms, it's just that people use "disabled" in front of "kids" so the argument is harder to talk about without sounding like a dick, and it does sort of vaguely prod at a real ethical problem so harder to talk and easier to make the talk about something else x2. but tbh tumblr is so full of people obsessed with letting ill people get away with shit bc they're "ill" it didn't seem off at first...2/2 idk this didn't sound off from the community that constantly claims that people with bpd should have at disposal their fp and should be allowed to guilt trip people as much as they want, or that autistic people can just do whatever they want no matter how troublesome it is for other people (while completly disregarding how shitty it could be for other disabled people because in these scenarios everyone else is always NT/abled and An Horrible Oppressor) and so on and so on

Yeah, and you see the same thing from the anti-fujoshi community. Like they’ll swear left and right that they’re only “protecting the poor defenseless gay men from the Bad Ugly Cishet White Women” when 1. most fujoshi are queer, or black, or otherwise marginalized 2. it’s still misogyny because they don’t attack men who fetishize lesbians, curiously, not even men who harass lesbians and bi women in the real world... only queer women who read mlm fiction. But they’ll repeat and press on the fact that they’re speaking up for mlm, because admitting that they just straight up hate women who don’t conform to society wouldn’t make them look good. They’re by all intents and purposes your typical brand of medieval regressive reactionaries using leftist language to infiltrate our communities and divide them from the inside. And this is also the same tactic TERFs have been using for a very long time, where they infiltrate lesbian communities and split them in minor divisions (they’re guilty of driving a wedge between bi women and lesbians decades ago, for example), take over known lesbian strongholds (AfterEllen’s old staff was entirely fired and then replaced by TERFs who then started TERFing around) and maybe form alliances with literal nazis (aka Milo Yiannopoulos openly supporting TERFs who wanted to “drop the T” and drove a huge amount of both nazis and TERFs to support that cause). 

I’m not tinhatting, these are logical conclusions for people who are paying attention. 

All of this is beside the fact that the post that person was talking about literally just said women’s bodies should be managed by women and nobody else, and abortion should be a choice for every woman who wants it. Nowhere did that post mention disabled or neurodivergent children, so that’s why their ask was a dogwhistle. Because it came out of literally fucking nowhere and it was clearly a plant to drive me into getting angry and looking irrational. Except, unfortunately for them, I’m smarter than that and I’m definitely way smarter than them. They can go eat shit with the rest of their misogynistic friends.