tbh it's very difficult to take any opinion on callout culture on tumblr seriously if it fails to acknowledge how it arose out of necessity
The very first callout post I saw on this site was of a cis man in Florida who had abused his position as a ~cool educated anarchist~ to rape several women.
The first callout of a transfemme I didn’t see until years later and it was directed at monetizeyourcat for financially abusing and pressuring young trans women into sex.
Callout posts did have a purpose - there were indeed many people using their online persona as a means to abuse people.
did writing about these people on the internet provide any healing to their victims, change their behavior, or meaningfully reduce their access to new victims?
if they kept doing it, #2 and #3 are automatically answered with "no," btw.
you're fucking daft if you think any real community has benefitted from this hyperonline mean girl sherlock holmes ass horseshit.
immediately looked in the replies and saw "yes thank you, it was important to expose closet racists!"
what exactly is a "closet racist?" someone who does racist things in location A and doesn't do them in location B, you meet them in location B, and you feel icky when you find out about location A?
the people in A were already handling shit and do not need, cannot use, help from location B. your reaction is just a blend of moral and contamination compulsions.
















