Holy fuck dude. Our generation is actually fucked. The amount of younger people on here spitting fascist takes, puritan beliefs, pearl clutching, pro censorship, nazi rhetoric, is PISSING ME THE FUCK OFF. And they somehow don't even fucking REALIZE it.
If you DON'T like it, then don't fucking READ it. Move the FUCK on because if you're so disgusted by it why are you offering even more of your mental health towards openly shaming people's writing?
Just because someone is defending the right to write whatever the fuck you want doesn't mean they think that certain things are "morally correct". If we used that fucking logic on ANY and EVERY media ever then we might as well pack it up and only write about fucking sunshine and rainbows bro. (See: Hays Code)
Oh, you want to ban people from writing about "morally degenerate, freak" things? (Nazi type language by the way, used to dehumanize anyone they want to strip away the rights of) Oh. Well.
Therefore: genocide is horrible so DONT EVER depict it because it's HORRIBLE and should NEVER be talked about. Guys how could you GENOCIDE that entire group of fictional people in that fictional work!!!! You're evil for showing that.
In fact no one ever talk about genocide or slavery or discrimination or racism or homophobia or transphobia!!!!! It hurts my feelings!!! Cause I don't like seeing that!!!! Let's make it illegal to depict this cause it makes me so sad and scared and upset!!!! ("shhh guyss" coos the government, "nooo no don't worry! we'll save your feelings and the day by not depicting media about genocide while we actively genocide other countries for our own greed but we won't talk about it for your feelings!! Yes yes no one is allowed to talk about this!! Yess, lose your knowledge and insight through a medium which is a safe space where no actual people are harmed in order to elicit empathy for the real people that experience this!!! Lose that!!!! Let's coddle you all so that you don't ever have to hear about those bad bad things and we all pretend- I mean realize- that everybody is happy and this happens to no one and it DEFINITELY doesn't at all help people to understand the gravity of what genocide does on the surface most level!!!! Everything's okay!!!!!
Literacy rate definitely isn't at its lowest!
Nazi beliefs definitely aren't rampant!
School libraries definitely aren't receiving continuous cuts at all!!! No librarians are being distanced from actually being a part of schools or anything!!!!
Nazi views aren't being used at all to give you a common enemy to dehumanize and strip the rights of!!!
Gotta get rid of those sexual deviants!
Oh and those disabled people too!
Oh and those trans people while we're at it!
Oh and those people of color!
Oh and those non traditional, non conservative people!
Oh and those non religious, non god fearing people!
Oh and those poor people!
Oh and also anyone who isn't my top 1% buddies who are the rich pedophiles who run the world who are harming REAL FUCKING CHILDREN.
IF you can't confront the reality that a fictional work that is depicting something that is objectively vile and a disgusting thing (that is unfortunately the real lives experience of TOO MANY PEOPLE) is not immediately GLORIFYING it or causing harm to REAL people who face those issues, then we're totally fucked.
Which fight is more worth fighting?
Fighting for certain works of fiction depicting certain things to be legally banned, leading to the potential for dictatorships (PEDOPHILES, EUGENICISTS, RAPISTS AND THE LIKE) to have complete control more than they already do of the media you consume to push an agenda that will strip EVERYBODY'S rights away and gain them more power?
CHOOSE. TO. NOT. READ. THINGS. THAT. MAKE. YOU. UNCOMFORTABLE.
I'm fucking DONE. I'm SICK OF IT. I'm so TIRED.
The existence of something and the visibility of issues does NOT. MEAN. THE. ***THING ITSELF***. IS. GOOD.
If you are a victim (and I can only speak for myself on this) of certain "socially taboo" subjects, I'd much rather people be OKAY talking about it than PRETENDING it's something no one has ever experienced. That is ISOLATING. And makes victims feel shame for something they did NOT CAUSE.
ART IS HOW WE SHARE THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE. IF WE DONT CREATE TO EXPRESS OUR EXPERIENCES THEN WHAT IS THE POINT. WHAT IS THE POINT OF SUFFERING, OF JOY, OF GRIEF, OF LOVE, OF HORROR, OF TRAUMA, OF ECSTASY IF WE ARE LEGALLY LIMITED IN WHAT WE CAN SHARE AND ARE ALLOWED TO FEEL OR THINK. Cause that's where this fucking rabbithole goes!
Isn't THAT more important than YOUR discomfort?