Here's the explanation of what happened recently with pr*sma/tic-b3ll (censored so they dont find me here), as well as my thoughts on the matter after sleeping on it. This is gonna be a long blog post, so im putting it under a cut for your convenience
Yesterday was a very long, exhausting, and arduous day. I got up at 1:30am for work, and went to bed at 10pm. Worked a full shift, did groceries, ironed, and washed the laundry and sheets all in one day. My boyfriend took care of the cooking and the dishes. That was tiring enough, but then I was reached out to by someone who wanted to tell me that one of my atheism posts on my old blog had reached the wrong crowd and was now a targeted harassment campaign against me because PB took my lack of belief to be a personal attack against them, and their loyal band of followers who parrot everything they say without a critical thought in their heads all descended upon me. The funny thing about that, in hindsight, is that the post in question is literally about how if someone isn't allowing you to practice and voice your beliefs around them then that's not a healthy relationship. The post is literally about how you should be allowed to voice your beliefs or lackthereof without being seen as an aggressor against other belief systems. If they missed the point any farther they'd end up in space. But nonetheless, there's now yet another harassment campaign against me by another bad faith piece of shit.
You can see it for yourself if you go back to my old blog. I logged in specifically to make a statement about the horrid behavior being displayed in the notes and then turn of RBs. I would really appreciate those willing and emotionally able to to head over and drop a reply in support, because it's really, really bad in there now. You can also see PB's fucking insane response to me and their interesting accusations and implications about me, a whole jew, being an antisemite who must have never faced religious persecution ever in my life. Yeah buddy, I'm an ethnic and cultural jew who grew up in an Islamic theocracy so, fuck right off with that. It's not a good look to assume things of complete strangers just because they disagree with you about whether or not there's a higher power. In fact, that's exactly what the post you didn't read and then decided for me what I must've said was about. I've thankfully never had the displeasure of interacting with PB in the past, but some other folks have reached out to me privately and told me about their history of doxxing minorities, their anti-arab racism and islamophobia, their storied hostility towards atheists, and their denial of Israeli aggression against Palestinians. This behavior was not only incredibly shitty, but also felt like I was being kicked while I was already down. I specifically left that blog to stop the harassment I was constantly receiving, so understandably with everything else going on in my life, I spent the rest of my work shift staving off a panic attack because I was convinced I was going to get doxxed and attacked and another callout campaign against me. Because I said that atheists deserve to voice our beliefs just as much as anyone else deserves it.
It was a real "I like pancakes" "YOU HATE WAFFLES???" moment. the worst part of this all is that I was a 30 second part of their day, while I have to deal with the emotional and psychological consequences of it. What also gets me is how much they were trying to essentially beat me with "you need to be nice!!" while simultaneously treating a complete stranger to them like that. The hypocrisy drips through the facade like a leaky pipe in an apartment wall. And as long as they want to make horrific assumptions about me based solely on one post they utterly misinterpreted in the worst faith possible, let me also assume that an individual who acts like this towards others only to turn around and post endless Mr. Rogers quotes about the importance and kindness and giving others grace doesn't have many, if any, real life friends. And to be frank, they don't deserve them if they'll be treated this way the moment they step over an imaginary line they didn't even cross in the first place.
The thing is too, as someone who had a pretty big platform, you have to be extremely careful about what you say and how you criticize others on that platform, because at some point it becomes impossible to moderate who follows you and anything you say can and will be used to incite harassment against others. That's why I never criticized posts I didn't agree with on the direct posts, I always made my own post vaguely referencing the opinion I was criticizing and never linked back to the OP: as much as you try to curate a respectful audience on the internet, sheer numbers mean it's very easy to stir up a mob mentality. I did have a rule that if you came to me directly and publicly to try to start shit that I would shut you down equally as directly and publicly, but that's a bit different than criticizing random strangers just existing in their corners who, at the end of the day, you don't know and clearly don't actually give a shit about the mental health of, or maybe you'd take the advice of all those Mr. Rogers quotes you keep posting.
The other thing is, if you have curated an audience based on attacking other people, especially on a website like this one, you are NOT immune to their wrath when you end up crossing that imaginary line to their collective perceptions. One day, you're going to find yourself in the same place you've thrown all your victims over something you probably didn't even say or do, and it's going to descend upon you 10 times worse than you've ever incited upon others, because their access to you is so much more direct than it is to any of us. And WHEN, not if, WHEN that happens, no one is going to come to your aid, because you've done it to so many other people that no one's going to be left to defend you.
It's very rare that I directly call someone out by name, but in PB's case I'm going to make an exception, because the circumstances of this one were so cruel and dehumanizing over something they decided that I said for me, that I believe it's warranted in this case. And because I'm done with being the perfect, quiet demure victim of people like this. Frankly, these people remind me of the kids who used to beat the shit out of me on the playground in school for being a little tranny faggot and then never got in trouble because the school admin were mad that I bit and punched and kicked back at them instead of just sitting there and taking it, upon which they'd pull some bullshit about how I was just as bad as they were.
And frankly, if you think that atheists are an oppressor class, I don't believe you have ever gone outside even once in your entire life
