#offensive

[bopbyers]

something that breaks my heart and boils my blood at the same time is seeing people strip will of the traits that made him will while simultaneously watching those same people inject him with traits that they want him to have; traits that Aren’t Will’s Traits. traits he was abused for not having……..

i think there’s a fine line between interpretation and complete annihilation of one’s character and it’s blurring more and more by the day.

will’s arc, conceptually, was beautiful. could’ve been written better, yes, that point has been beaten to death a thousand times. We Get It.

sorcerer wasn’t just about him accepting his love for mike or embracing his sexuality; it was him embracing EVERYTHING. everything that made him will byers. everything he was abused for having/being. everything people hated in him. everything people made him hate about himself:

his softness. his creativity and love for the arts. his kindness. his mannerisms. his sensitivity; anything that assholes in hawkins wouldn’t deem masculine enough. (and yes, his sexuality is a big part of it, too; the biggest part, even, but again- not the only part of it)

seeing people rip away what he grew to love about himself (and rip away what he STILL held onto after years of trauma and abuse) to make him fit their ship’s agenda, the image THEY want it to be… i thought we were past this lmao.

guess not.

(and sure. people can write, draw, etc. anything they want, but i think the more people stray from canon, the more alienation happens, the less engaging a fandom becomes, etc. it ruins an experience someone may have been hoping to have but can’t find due to everything feeling so.. ooc, if that makes sense)

[unspeakablearchives]

has any of the highly censored content you've read actually changed your view on its subject matter in a big way?

Huh, that's a really interesting question. I think the answer is kind of... no.

I like to think of myself as open-minded, but highly suppressed non-fiction is naturally gonna tend to be some VERY fringe, offensive stuff.

Actually, this is a good opportunity to elaborate on something-

I think that when we suppress works written by bigots, religious extremists, pedophiles, animal abusers, etc, we betray a really bleak, pessimistic view of humanity. Here’s why:

That belief is based on the idea that the average person is so helpless, so easily manipulated, that merely encountering something hateful or depraved will short-circuit their moral judgment and convert them.

And listen: I get it. Sometimes it can be hard to look at the world around us and retain your faith in other people.

But I just don’t think the answer to bad ideas is to hide them away like cursed objects, as if ordinary people have no conscience, no judgment, and no ability to say "this is disgusting, and I reject it."

I believe that most people are better than the censors think they are. Human beings aren't empty vessels for the last thing they read. They are thinking, judging creatures. They can weigh, refuse, condemn, and choose for themselves.

If we lose faith in that, if we decide the public cannot be trusted with certain words, images, arguments, or art, then we’ve already embraced a much darker ideology than any forbidden book ever could impart.

[memelabor]

Gen Y

[rr-sheep]

-[⚠TW: Offensive Humor]-

Noli: 1×...you can't say that

[multiple-random-media-i-love]

Yes, Sabrina was racist.

"This is weird."

Yes. She was racist.

Her not knowing of Zaghrouta wasn't offensive. Her making a weird face after the fans tell her it's their culture and calling it "weird" is indeed offensive. It is not that hard to understand, is it now?

Before anyone tells me "it's not that deep" IT IS A BIT FUCKING DEEP TO CALL A CULTURAL ELEMENT WEIRD.

Before anyone tells me "the fans were being loud and disturbing her"...it's coachella. A place where people do drugs and do all sort of shit. Are you telling me a kind of chanting is the weird thing there? Coachella isn't a formal event where people have to be prim and proper. A lot of people travel to attend.

Sabrinas team removed posts online criticising her. That tells me a lot of her nature. Her apology was still lacking in my opinion.

I have been seeing many defend her and say they weren't offended....of course you weren't offended. Most of you defending her are western fans. White fans. *deep sigh*

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