they all bleed red

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[trashrightsactivist]

[ooc: messaging]

I have figured out what the problem was that has been stopping people from messaging @trashrightsactivist. I will be fixing this but probably not til toward the end of the month cause I’m gonna be away IRL.

For now if you want to ICly message Ruby @trashrightsactivist, message @truth-from-ashes and be like (ICly this is to @trashrightsactivist).

[trashrightsactivist]

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Does anyone have any idea who was the secret red asker? I’d like to get in contact oocly and talk about a thing.

@luminousalicorn would you mind signal boosting this?

[trashrightsactivist]

OOC: Is the 'This Tumblr can't receive messages.' thing that's coming up on messenger IC?

no, I will have a look at that and see whats going on.

[trashrightsactivist]

I don’t know what’s going on here. Ability to receive messages from non-friends is definitely turned on. I did just switch over admin control of this account to a different main tumblr? Maybe it was down during the transition but works now? idk.

[trashrightsactivist]

OOC: Is the 'This Tumblr can't receive messages.' thing that's coming up on messenger IC?

no, I will have a look at that and see whats going on.

[trashrightsactivist]

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if you are an Amentumblr you have been unfollowed by loki-zen; this is not because I don’t like you it’s cause I have a separate dash for that now over with @truth-from-ashes

[trashrightsactivist]

[OOC send to the address left up] [@limmuda] are you safe? I understand if you don't trust me, I'm not red and not an activist, but no one should ever be unsafe to share ideas, especially when those ideas are well-reasoned and probably true. That's just fundamentally not how arguments are supposed to work. If I can help, let me know.

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Hi. I am sad and angry but physically safe. 

I can’t think of a way for it to be safe for me to share my ideas. I’m not too scared for me specifically - I’m confident in my anonymity - but as @cannothurtyou pointed out it just gets taken out on any reds that happen to be nearby. 

I mean, and also multiple people calling for my execution = not the best environment for discourse.

I’m not that guy in Doet. I hope they’re okay but I fear the worst.

Thanks for like, giving a crap, anyway.

~ruby

[trashrightsactivist]

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This blog is currently missing IC. It looks like it’s been deleted. There is no content but there’s still an address that can be messaged.

[trashrightsactivist]

are you /trying/ to get more of us beaten to death in the streets because the ~clean castes~ are freaking out about pollution???

[trashrightsactivist]

[anonymous] Please stop. You're putting us all in danger. Please. Just show anyone you know, anyone you work with what you're doing, please.

[blackoutlandish]

It's probably purples behind the ant-robot riots. Automation would threaten a lot of their make-work.

Automation has been eliminating purple jobs for years. If there were a successful purple anti-robot conspiracy, the world would look very different.

Try looking at the caste that has all the money and social and political power, mmmkay?

[thestarsarepurple-deactivated20]

My two cents: Doesn’t have to be one caste - or a whole caste - doing it. Feels like sometimes people forget ‘purple’ means rich store owners, dirt poor farmers, skilled and well-paid welders, and many more different kinds of people all at once.

[megasilverfist]

Secretly it was us! Trolololol

[trashrightsactivist]

i mean

i don’t want robots to take your job either but i would so watch robots fight in an arena

[a-terror-of-shadow-and-flame]

so uh quick question

if you’re going to be a red social worker, why would you demand that reds not interact with you online?

what is the point here?

[reject-your-reality]

Plenty of people don’t like feeling like their work is following them home, and plenty more have the internet as their only escape from their real life. I think it’s reasonable to want to control your online experience, as long as you aren’t rude about it. 

[trashrightsactivist]

sure but

1: saying ‘r*ds’ is being rude about it

2: so is ‘I can’t believe I have to say this!!! [passive aggressive emoji chain]’ and ‘a “r*d rights activist”. What is wrong with you??? [passive-aggressive emoji chain]’

3: if you don’t see reds as the sort of normal human beings that are likely to be a small part of any online space - if you see them as so fundamentally different that they can only be ‘work things’ and can’t just be ‘people’ - if you dislike interacting so much that you need ‘escape’ - don’t become a red social worker.

[reject-your-reality]

No, yeah, this particular person is being rude, no question. But I think it’s important to understand why people do the things they do, even if we disapprove of those things. For instance, the person you’re talking about probably didn’t choose to become a red social worker, but was forced into it because it was the only job they could get. It’s understandable that someone in that position might feel frustrated or resentful, just like it’s understandable that you resent them in turn. 

[trashrightsactivist]

like i get it but ppl who have to be garbage collectors still collect garbage properly they don’t let their resentment make them shit at their job or there would be garbage all over your street

[imrainai]

[@trashrightsactivist] (sends an array of links to cat videos, instrumental music streams and escapist fiction)

*airhugs* thank you very very much

I saw your new post and that one addition and uh. I kinda wanted to respond, because it’s an Important Idea and you’re a good person and your Important Ideas are worth responding to, even if they’re distressing and terrifying, but also I am distressed in general right now and I think not thinking about anything except cats and space battles and the very small baby in my room for a bit might be the better choice for me at this point

Thank you again

[trashrightsactivist]

yeah nobody is going to think any less of you for not engaging with Big Discourse when you have really big life stuff going on and if they do they’re a dick. Look after the two of you. <3

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[a-terror-of-shadow-and-flame]

so uh quick question

if you’re going to be a red social worker, why would you demand that reds not interact with you online?

what is the point here?

[reject-your-reality]

Plenty of people don’t like feeling like their work is following them home, and plenty more have the internet as their only escape from their real life. I think it’s reasonable to want to control your online experience, as long as you aren’t rude about it. 

[trashrightsactivist]

sure but

1: saying ‘r*ds’ is being rude about it

2: so is ‘I can’t believe I have to say this!!! [passive aggressive emoji chain]’ and ‘a “r*d rights activist”. What is wrong with you??? [passive-aggressive emoji chain]’

3: if you don’t see reds as the sort of normal human beings that are likely to be a small part of any online space - if you see them as so fundamentally different that they can only be ‘work things’ and can’t just be ‘people’ - if you dislike interacting so much that you need ‘escape’ - don’t become a red social worker.

[candle-in-an-old-mine]

I’ve been thinking lately about whether it might be better (for clean castes) to give reds more negotiating tools. Or, y'know, to actually negotiate with them.

Like - they might riot less if they could get things they wanted through any means besides rioting.

[thestarsarepurple-deactivated20]

I think there’s a uh. Give an inch and maybe they’ll take a few yards mentality?

I mean I don’t want to burn them all or anything it’s just. Hard to think about without freaking out.

I wouldn’t mind if the red who takes care of our place’s trash got a vote. Sure, why not? Being him must really suck. But the idea of reds-in-general doing it makes me want to scream and light something on fire and go find a job on a farm in the middle of nowhere.

[candle-in-an-old-mine]

So - I’m not even sure they want the vote. Well, that’s not true, I’m sure they do, it’s just probably not their top priority. (Also - depends on where you live, but lots of places weight votes by caste. Even if they gave reds as much of a vote as purples, the purple vote is still, what, 60, 70 times what the red vote would be?)

I don’t know all of what reds do want - that’s kind of part of the problem, right? - but some things they want might be:  - Not getting killed if they don’t show up for work  - Not “lunging at greys” (Honestly I didn’t realize how common of a fig leaf this was until the first days of the food crisis when lone reds were “lunging at” bands of 20+ armed greys and purples.)  - More social workers? Like, being a red probably sucks and there’s no way the number of social workers they have is enough for all the therapy they need. Like, even having the therapist on the other side of a glass wall would be an improvement on nothing, you could probably get more people to agree that way.  - Medical supplies. I’ve actually seen red doctors posting about this one, so it’s not really a guess, and it’s also pretty obvious. Red districts are less sanitary than clean ones, so there’s obviously a bigger disease risk, and yet they have fewer supplies than clean hospitals.

I’m sure I’m missing lots of things, though.

[yearbyyearrecedesbeforeus]

This is a good list but actually they don’t want more social workers! “Red social worker” is a job for oranges who have failed at everything else. Even if the social worker wants to be there, if they’re lucky that means “condescending orange-savior type who Knows What Is Best For You and expects you to be appropriately grateful,” and if they’re unlucky that means “predator who wants access to a bunch of easily exploited victims who can’t complain.” There’s no selection for pollution hyposensitivity or anything. Honestly firing all the social workers would probably improve reds’ attitudes tremendously.

If we paid reds better probably more of them could afford to train as therapists themselves, that’d probably be the best thing.

[trashrightsactivist]

I would be entirely here for diverting the funds used to hire social workers to red-for-red medical services, this is 300% a good idea

[trashrightsactivist]

You know what, fuck it. Sent privately already but.. I know I’ve been talking to a lot of more moderate people lately. I don’t want to torpedo that connection but at the same time I hate myself that I wanted to sit on what I believe to be the Truth.

That isn’t what I came here for.

This is.

I just found out that my biological father was red. I'm not usually that pollution sensitive, but I know I'm spreading filth everywhere I go and I can't stand it. I stopped touching people for a while, but my friend noticed and I couldn't explain. I've thought of turning myself in before I get caught, but my brother's hypersensitive, he can't go to a red district, and my sister's expecting a kid, and...I don't know what to do, I feel like someone'll find out any second and I'm freaking out.

It’s not real. You aren’t any different. You are the same person you always were and you’re not any less clean than you always were.

It didn’t do anything to people when you touched them before you knew and it doesn’t do anything when you touch them now.

This kind of pollution is imaginary.

If people don’t know something is this kind of polluted, it doesn’t hurt them. They don’t even notice.

If people don’t believe in this kind of pollution, it doesn’t hurt them. They don’t even notice.

If you carry on as normal and don’t tell anybody, nothing has to change and you won’t be doing a bad thing. You will be keeping people safe from a lie that will hurt them if and only if they believe in it.

You do need to be very careful that nobody finds out about your father. But they won’t somehow figure out that you are polluted, because you are not. There is nothing different about you in that way.

Hereditary pollution is a lie.

You are not polluted. You are fine. They could take you into a laboratory and test every cell in your body and nowhere would they find ‘hereditary pollution’.

It’s something that only exists in peoples’ minds, and if we stop believing in it, or we don’t know about it, it literally does not exist.

It will be difficult for you to believe this, but you have to. You have to believe it because it is the truth, but also because it will save you.

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[trashrightsactivist]

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[trashrightsactivist]

I just found out that my biological father was red. I'm not usually that pollution sensitive, but I know I'm spreading filth everywhere I go and I can't stand it. I stopped touching people for a while, but my friend noticed and I couldn't explain. I've thought of turning myself in before I get caught, but my brother's hypersensitive, he can't go to a red district, and my sister's expecting a kid, and...I don't know what to do, I feel like someone'll find out any second and I'm freaking out.

I need to respond to you privately, can you please give me a way to do that?