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In reply to the discussion: A plea to ignore the flame bait [View all]cinnabonbon
(860 posts)Exactly! I mean, I understand that they don't want to get involved, but the action of being "neutral" has repercussions for the powerless party in the situation. When people prefer to stay in the silent majority, they are basically supporting the structure that is already at work, since they're doing nothing to improve on it. For example, if a bully hurts a smaller kid, staying silent supports the bully, not the victim. It doesn't matter if the person doesn't *want* to get involved.
When it comes to rape porn, saying "well, it's not my kink, not my problem," is not helping. It's not showing support to the survivors in our mids either. For a community that's supposed to care about democratic ideas, women's rights, minorities right, LBGT rights, equality, that is a very curious stance to take.
A lot of these people are saying "omg, you want to ban it! My rights!" but I haven't seen anyone do that? I wanted to see people speak up and talk about the problematic nature of this, not ban it. I wanted to see people say "That is not good. What can we do to prevent fictional "rape porn" from turning into a channel for rapists to genuinely rape people and show it online? "
or
"This is really disrespectful and hurtful to the community members of ours that has suffered this, maybe we shouldn't gleefully throw it in their face."
But no. Of course that didn't happen.
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