imagine you’re an art student. you have a lot of natural talent. you get an internship with a major network. and then 9/11 happens and you’re like ‘i bet i could help fix this with music’ so you form a punk band. the band gets popular. REALLY popular. like, genre defining popular. you’re the frontman of, arguably, the biggest punk band of your generation. and then a few years later you’re like ‘you know what. i’m done with this. i’m gonna write some comics.’ and you do and win an eisner award and create a whole ass new version of spiderman. and then a few years after THAT you’re like ‘maybe i should do that whole band thing again’ so you announce it and people lose their fucking minds. gerard way is the weirdest man alive. i’d die for him.
Democrats: alright we finally did it, Trumps been impeached. Time for a trial in the-
Republicans: lol yeah about that trial. It’s not gonna be fair or anything, we’ve already made up our minds and there’s gonna be like, 0 witnesses
Democrats: oh? Ok then. If that’s the case then I guess we’ll just hold on to these *pockets articles of impeachment*
Republicans:
Can someone explain what this means?
Our president has been charged with misconduct through the only proccess that is outlined in our constitution (impeachment). The next step in the process is that the president goes on trial. Republicans in the senate, where the trial will take place, have already said they have made up their minds and will vote based on bias. They have stated that it will be a quick trial with no witnesses and a guaranteed vote on acquittal. The democrats, who control the charges, have said that they will not release the charges to the senate until fair rules have been established. Republicans seem shocked by this turn of events
In case you’re wondering why this would make the republicans upset, the need this to go to trial or Trump will be on record as having been impeached and not acquitted.
all of us have been unlearning problematic things - it’s really malicious and in bad faith to purposefully dig up old posts by someone that do not reflect their current opinions and attack them over it out of context
Go get rid of your old terrible posts then. If I eat something I don’t keep the wrapper around. I get rid of it.
I have nearly 50,000 posts on my Tumblr blog which I have been running since 2011. It is literally impossible for me to sift through all of that for every single “problematic” post just for fear of some jerk dredging up something I said eight years ago.
And honestly? I shouldn’t anyway. You can literally make the opposite argument: that it’s wrong to hide your past. If we all keep pretending that ideological purity is possible and erasing the journeys we’ve gone though to learn from mistakes and become better, more educated people I feel like that does more harm than good.
Anyway, your attitude is victim blaming. We should not normalize a culture of fear where everyone is desperate to hide their flaws because someone might start a harassment campaign against them. The solution is ending that culture, not saddling people with the burden of dealing with it.
To give an example for what @theroguefeminist is saying, there’s a message that Warner Bros, and this is not in support of them but rather the ownership of problematic things they’ve done, but the company plays this specific message before episodes of there’s that feature any sort of racial prejudice or derogatory statements that were the norm for the time that goes like this
The fact of the matter is, horrible things were depicted about certain races, and horrible things were said about them, but rather than sweep, it under the rug, it’s important to leave it there as a reminder that" look, we were like this before, let’s not go back to this"
TL;DR End Purity Culture; No one improves if you don’t stop bringing up the past
If you harass and “cancel” people over things that happened in the past fuck off.
If you bootlick cancel and/or purity culture get 👏🏻 off 👏🏻 my 👏🏻 blog. Y'all always so vocal about flaw positivity, start acting like it. Own your mistakes, and improve yourself so they don’t keep happening. Everyone makes mistakes, quit witch hunting people that make bigger ones than others. Even some of the worst people can learn and get better. As long as they own up to the fact that they were wrong, regret it, and apologize then make strides to improve themselves, there’s no reason anyone should continue to “cancel” them.
People can change at ANY time. It’s not your place to judge whether or not someone has changed or is worthy of “forgiveness.”
Also digging up old posts and info about ANYONE, especially people you barely know online, just to “cancel” or “expose” them is petty as fuck. Do something useful with your time instead of being an asshole to strangers.
