#26 — Vanek! with a Jurco

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Re: Things You Wouldn't Say Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

I literally said that's not what I'm trying to do?? I'm talking foremost about my own feelings, but, yeah, secondly, about fandom attitudes that are in our power to change. I'm saying that small offshoot of decency IS important, but that (general) you can appreciate it without talking about it like it is more than it is? I'm not demanding anything from Scrivens himself (but actually, wishing that someone with a public platform which he uses to express his social activism wouldn't use it to whitesplain isn't asking a lot).

Like, Scrivens' screw ups are understandable to an extent. What I was questioning in my first comment was my own first instinct to overlook and excuse them because I was so invested in this idea that because he had expressed some progressive views, he was such a great, wonderful, admirable person. What I was responding to in my reply was someone minimalizing those screw ups by saying we're all always learning and he's trying to get better when no evidence of of learning or bettering is present. That's a fandom attitude for you.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Say Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

Sometimes I think Donald Trump is an aberration and/or that some combination of Vladimir Putin, Julian Assange and Roger Ailes might be fixing national polls on his behalf.

Other times I think it's not so un-understandable that people want SJWs to just shhhhhhhh sometimes.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Say Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, people talking anonymously online about hero-worshipping white men for being minimally decent, if that, is definitely the terrible thing that is causing massive amounts of Americans to support a fascist dictator. Right.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Say Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

TIL that SJWs are responsible for the rise of Trump? Are we on reddit?

Re: Things You Wouldn't Say Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

There's a colossal chasm between wanting SJWs to shh and wanting to strip scapegoated groups of their rights and fuel hatred and violence towards them. Moron.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Say Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

People like the AYRT are exactly why Trump has support, and it's terrifying because they don't even see anything wrong with it. They're like lol shut up SJWs, you complain too much, oh no did I trigger you??

It's really sad, especially because most of the time, the people with those attitudes aren't going to be the ones to suffer at all from a Trump presidency. So fuck everyone else, right?

Re: Things You Wouldn't Say Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

na

I, for one, had no idea about this blackface thing, but I'm not really thrilled that fandom has spent so long talking about how Scrivens is one of the "good ones," and when someone mentions that he defended blackface, suddenly "we are all always learning" and Scrivens doesn't owe us anything. You can't have it both ways? Appreciating the good but overlook the bad? Defend yourself if you feel called out for daring to like a hockey player who is unique in how progressive he is, but I think it's kind of telling that there's a lot of defensiveness and not even a single acknowledgment that defending blackface is in fact a bad thing.

Re: Things You Wouldn't Say Unanon

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

To be perfectly clear and fair, he wasn't saying that the practice of blackface was ok, he was arguing that x thing (that was obviously blackface) wasn't blackface, which is still bad, but more understandable imo. And I continued to adore him for a long time after I found out about that, so 🤷 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯