#kill the cop in your head

[mos-twin-mattress]

It's so crazy... 2020 feels like a complete fever dream... I thought and hoped and prayed that we would keep the BLM momentum going like it was that year... But we didn't .... People started to forget and speak on it less.

I posted and still post as much as I can ab Black lives on my Facebook... Ab other social justice issues. Sometimes it felt like I was just screaming into a void... I still feel betrayed at times, by the white girlies who just a few years ago were in the streets saying "if they start shooting stand behind me"

My life doesn't feel important to most ppl. They talk a big game ab caring and wanting things to change, but at the end of the day most ppl don't want the status quo to change. They just want to do enough to look like a good person.

If this post makes you angry, makes you feel some typa way then I URGE you to look inwards and figure out WHY it strikes such an uncomfortablity in you. Figure out what you could be doing more...

I know it's difficult to hear these words, I know looking inwards is hard and uncomfortable, I've been there, I STILL have a cop in my head that I need to kill. We ALL do!

#kill the cop in your head #black lives matter #black lives fucking matter #black lives are important #black lives #say their names #black solidarity

[the-everqueen]

action items white people can consider to make fandom spaces more inclusive for bipoc:

rec/kudos/comment on fanworks made by poc

consider what roles characters of color take in your own work. do black and brown characters exist solely as emotional support for central white characters? are black and brown characters sidelined for white character arcs? do black and brown characters appear solely to Talk About Racism (aka be the Magical or moralizing force for a narrative)?

(consider: Not Doing That)

reflect on whose voices get centralized/prioritized in any given narrative

listen to poc who express discomfort/frustration/critique of the text or fanon without feeling the need to defend either (or recognize you don't need to insert yourself into some conversations)

conversations around racism in fan spaces almost always get derailed into debates about ships or The Literal Text, but in my experience some of the most alienating aspects of fandom are the subtle ways that white people signal us as "other," i.e. acting as though race and queerness are distinct categories (there are queer bipoc! we invented a lot of queer culture!), framing nonwhite characters as unrelatable or undesirable, and reproducing stereotypes in fanon narratives. these become exhausting to encounter, whether or not we're part of the larger fandom ecosystem, and because it's systemic, it becomes impossible to avoid. which means white people's escapism corner is another site that poc have to navigate very, very carefully.

#fandom discourse #i don't want to get into the debates about shipping #some of my favorite fics involve Main Fandom Ships #i also project onto white male characters in media #that's fine! i'm not here to dictate your desires #what frustrates me in any given fandom is the underlying rhetorics that uphold white supremacist thinking #kill the cop in your head #and that's really all i have to say about that #because i would like to get back to my unhinged reblogging of gifsets and discussions on critical race theory #also again! i know a lot of ppl who are into the Main Ship in the current fandoms #who are doing really really good and nuanced shit #i follow some of them!

[mrsblackruby]

There are no good humans. There are no perfect victims

There are no bad humans. There are no bad victims. There are humans and they can be victims or perpetrators at times

Do not forget that in war if all will it there can be peace

You have no enemies

We’re all one in the same

Made out of the same star dust

No one deserves to be hurt

Please break out of the lies you fed your moral imagination

And look at the parts that make up our reality for the beautiful chaos it is

#abolition #abolish prisons #anarchism #anarchy #anarchist #communism #communist #socialism #socialist #anarcho syndicalism #leftist #leftism #freeblr #Revolution #kill the cop in your head

[aquarian-airhead]

if you use words like 'degenerate' and 'weird' in your arguments about why something is wrong or bad then leave

go away.

#I have nothing for you here #do not want #I'm on your DNI and I don't trust you #pro weird #pro freak #anti censorship #anti harassment #anti cringe culture #freedom of fiction #freedom of artistic expression #kill the cop in your head #anti bigotry

[torturedpoetemotions]

This article has been out for over a year, but I just heard of it via a youtube video by Princess Weekes (who I highly recommend you check out if you enjoy media analysis from someone who is clearly well-versed in fandom without feeling the need to establish themselves as some condescending authority studying us like creatures in a zoo, unlike some youtubers who post about fandom).

If you've been on tumblr for as long as I have (10+ years), you probably vividly remember the heyday of yourfaveisproblematic, and how that blog's popularity feels even today like one of the major catalysts for a lot of the purity policing on tumblr. In this article, the author of that blog--who was a teenager when it was active--talks about what motivated them at the time, how they feel about the blog now as an adult, how they see similar impulses being acted out across the internet today, and why they have never taken the blog down.

I highly recommend reading the whole thing, but here are a few key lines that really stuck out to me:

"In the years since, I’ve looked back on my blog with shame and regret — about my pettiness, my motivating rage, my hard-and-fast assumptions that people were either good or bad."

"I just wanted to see someone face consequences; no one who’d hurt me ever had."

"There’s something almost quaint about it all now: teenage me, teaching myself about social justice on Tumblr while also posturing as an authority on that very subject, thinking I was making a difference while engaging in a bit of schadenfreude."

"Looking back, I was more of a cop than a social justice warrior, as people on Tumblr had come to think of me."

These quotes remind me vividly of my own fall down the purity police pipeline, and my struggle to claw my way back out. Looking back, it's so easy to see how my pain and helplessness fueled a ruthlessness in my approach to social justice that was less about actually helping anyone and more about feeling like I wasn't so powerless.

Thinking of the friends I had at the time, many of whom I no longer associate with for related reasons, we were all traumatized or marginalized teenagers and twenty-somethings, newly awakened to the idea that the treatment we'd suffered for most of our lives was not in fact our fault and was due to systemic injustice and culturally accepted cruelty.

But we weren't healed enough, or distanced enough ourselves from the power structures causing or enabling that suffering, to think beyond wanting to flip the hierarchy. In a very real way, we weren't ready for the nuance required to give people grace and the opportunity to learn and grow. Despite having needed, and frankly still needing, those things ourselves.

I think we can learn a lot from Your Fave Is Problematic about the motivations and emotions behind purity culture, black and white thinking, and why neither is actually productive in reducing harm, easing suffering, or creating a kinder and more equitable world. And maybe, if we learn to recognize those impulses in ourselves, we can unpack them before they lead us to cause harm in the name of making ourselves feel less powerless.

#punitive justice is not justice it's revenge and control #purity culture #cancel culture #black and white thinking #evangelical thinking #your fave is problematic #kill the cop in your head #social justice #hellsite lore

[61below]

Whenever my perfectionism tries to take the wheel, I think about that live performance where Florence Welch is belting A Sky Full of Song when an actual storm blows in, throwing her stage lights around and even sending a cymbal crashing down, like… no studio production would ever create anything even approaching such a breathtaking moment. No clear sky sunshine day could have made that happen. But oh.

#florence and the machine #perfectionism #kill the cop in your head #I know it’s my little scared heart trying to protect myself … but FUCK that I’m so exhausted by it

[rumade]

Ginger the chicken was so real when she said "the problem is the fences aren't just outside, they're up here" and tapped her head

#chicken run #another world is possible #kill the cop in your head

[watcherglowcloud]

i'm tired of so-called "leftists" making up exceptions to the rules.

"everyone deserves bodily autonomy except the people i don't think deserve it"

"we should abolish prisons and move towards rehabilitation except for the felons i deem unforgivable"

"everyone deserves food and water and shelter unless they do something i don't like"

"everyone should be able to express themselves how they like unless it's in a way that bigots don't like. yeah the bigots are wrong but you could try to make yourself more palatable to them :|"

Kill the cop in your head. yes, rapists and murderers and pedophiles and nazis are terrible people who do terrible things. you personally may not feel inclined to forgive them and no one can fault you for that. but the second you deny one group of people human rights, that group instantly gets widened so that innocent people get caught in the crossfire. everyone got so excited when florida legalized the death penalty for pedophiles, but everyone turns a blind eye to the queer people and bipoc being falsely accused and convicted of pedophilia. and even for the rightly convicted, rehabilitation should be an option. no, rehabilitation should be necessary. the systemic issues leading to those crimes won't be solved by killing the offenders, that just sweeps it under the rug. people should be required to learn about their impact and do better.

and for the last point, i understand that it's tempting for minority groups to want to present a unified front to oppressors, but this just isn't realistic and hurts a lot of the people you claim you're trying to protect. bullying some kid out of using neopronouns or calling the stereotypical gay accent annoying or enforcing gender roles on gnc trans people do nothing to solve the problems of transphobia and homophobia, they just temporarily shift the hatred off yourself. i don't feel personally qualified to talk about bipoc issues but i know there's similar internalized (and externalized) racism, colorism, etc. in poc online spaces.

resist those "easier paths" that slow down real progress. aim for the heart of the problems. be compassionate when you can and remove yourself from the situation when you can't.

#i don't know how comprehensive this is i'm just really angry #leftism #prison abolition #lgbtq+ #bipoc #kill the cop in your head #queer liberation #long post

[daemonhxckergrrl]

an easy step toward killing the cop in your head is reminding yourself of the difference between "thing that causes/encourages harm or violates consent (all types)" and "thing I personally dislike"

#daemon.md #kill the cop in your head #radical solidarity #this applies to a lot of things

[quotesfromall]

But white radicals, the white left of the US in particular, have a hard time dealing with the reality that Black people have always managed to survive, despite the worst or best intentions of the majority population. We will continue to survive without you and can make our revolution without you

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin, Authoritarian Leftists

#black radicals #black anarchism #antifa #mutual aid #lorenzo komboa ervin #lorenzo kom'boa ervin #lorenzo kom boa ervin #lorenzo ervin #1996 #ervin 1996 #authoritarian leftists #kill the cop in your head

[ribstongrowback]

Maybe we need to stop saying "Normalise X", instead I propose "Stop being weird about X".

Instead of being a call for more discourse, it relieves the target from the duty of having a take and focuses the discussion on what you actually want to say: this happens, it's okay, you don't need to be scared, you don't even need to think about it, the fact that you do is an active choice you make and don't need to. You are being weird. Stop.

#kill the cop in your head

[nuts-but-as-a-treat]

Listen. It is your right to be a little freak. The loss of eccentricity due to the values of late stage capitalism is a fucking bane to all levels of existence, and to do your duty to yourself, and all future generations of the earth, you need to be a little freak. In our current society, through many many ways across many many demographics, they try to trap you with little freak licensure. This can be in the form of accommodations, as one example, and all other manner of "oh they have X, I guess we'll allow this person their right to be a little freak." Fuck that. Fucking infiltrate the system cosplaying the most societally accepted version of yourself, then fucking let your weirdo tendencies shine as soon as you are able, especially if they can't get rid of you. We can't afford the loss of eccentrics and weirdos and strange characters and we're seeing this loss so heavily across our world, within the workforce, being one example today. Think of how many artists are so eccentric, but were replaced by people palatable to the system. Think of how many innovations have come from the little freaks of the world. Think how much better your life is when you don't have to censor your quirks and things that make you a fucking person. Don't let respectability politics lure you into the trap of getting a "cushy" freak license, the people in this world who expect the licensure to be a freak would prefer your death to your continued accommodation if they could choose. No matter how much you play up the idea that you're not as much of a freak as the rest of the people similar to you, they will still berate you and leave you for dead once they've killed us off.

#neurodivergent #adhd #actually adhd #actually autistic #trans #gay #bisexual #arospec #acespec #lesbian #all of this is said with freak being used as a positive #and i am posting this at 3am #i have been thinking a lot about what i'm calling freak licensure #and would love to talk about it in more depth if anyone would like #kill the cop in your head #stop the respectability politics #respectability politics #fucking suck #and fucking stop distancing yourself from people considered “freaks” for once and for fucking all #especially when you're no better than us to those who would forsake you #disability #activism

[maraeffect]

can anyone explain to me like a short summary of the origin and original meaning of "kill the cop in your head"? a lot of theory is really inaccessible to me bc of the vocabulary and length of materials (':

#I'm trying to remember the original meaning bc i read it somewhere where the context is confusing me #and I'm STRUGGLING to find a simple answer 🥲 #chatter #theory #anarchism #kill the cop in your head

[pageofheartdj]

I wish people would not hold so rigidly for terms ofin a community that still explores itself.

#i thought you wanted to break binarity and gender stereotypes #why did you circle back into binarity and gender stereotyping #no it being 'progressive' doesn't change anything #pronouns is its own separate thing #like a name #gender is its own separate thing #gender presentation is its own separate thing #different attractions are their own separate things #your body is your own separate thing #you fiction taste is its own separate thing #NONE of it has to be connected #person's identity can be SUCH a complex mess #and its THEIR right to feel how they want without anyone saying what they are feeling is fake #this has nothing to do with them at all #kill the cop in your head #and stop policing what people think and feel #they dont owe you anything

[wolf-tail]

Advice for writers: Kill the youtube critic in your head

#writing #writing advice #kill the cop in your head

[lilithism1848]

Organizing Tip: Ground your organizing and messaging in what you fight FOR, not against

What differentiates Socialists from Reactionaries? In many cases, it’s not the general problems pointed out in society (ex: not having money, not having power, feeling alienated in your community), its the solutions. It’s the end goals (ex: Building an equitable and highly democratic society vs building a genocidal ethnostate).

We hear day in and day out about the problems caused by capitalism. So much so that it can have a negative impact on our mental health. The inevitable question is “what do we do about them?”

If you don’t ground your organizing in what solutions you are seeking to build, all that you are left with is railing against the problems in society with no hardened commitment to a just and Socialist outcome. Not only can this end up having a negative impact on the effectiveness of your messaging and the morale of organizers, it can allow reactionary solutions to slowly and insidiously seep into your movement and organizations. Do not forget about the historical phenomenon of fascists co-opting leftist messaging and talking points.

Grounding your organizing in Socialist solutions, and in building the better world of tomorrow allows for strategic focus. It allows you to tailor your messaging to specific goals. It allows you to build actual programs to address issues. And most of all, it allows us to grow hope and not despair.

#democratic socialism #anti capitalism #anarchocommunism #marxism #leftism #communism #socialism #anarchy #anarchism #anticapitalism #anti capitalist #kill the rich #eat the rich #capitalism #fuck capitalism #twitter x #late stage capitalism #classism #kill the cop in your head