"Gross" art will always exist. If you think you have any authority over art, especially the art of the oppressed, you are fundamentally unprepared for the revolution.
Putting "ACAB" in your bio means nothing if you roleplay as police force on the internet.
I see a lot of "This persons weird kinky art makes me think they are abusive and predatory". This is badjacketing, and is a right-wing tactic to shutting down anything against the status quo- because there is no collective agreement on the terms and conditions of "acceptable" as well. You are also just denouncing years and years worth of the fight for queer/sexual liberation too.
"But them engaging in this art is just a gateway for them to do this harm in real life! Violent art makes violent people!" Actually a violent WORLD makes violent people. Everyone is exposed to violence on some degree. And I promise you that the REAL WORLD is doing more harm on individuals than someone's "weird" kinky digital art.
If you want to fight abuse, fight abuse. But calling people you DON'T EVEN KNOW on the internet "abusers" for simply making art you find disgusting is so awful and counterrevolutionary. It's super easy to just block them and move on with your life.
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This is a big issue I have with Christianity and its virtue-based moral system. Earth is supposedly designed by God to be a test of everyone’s place in the afterlife. Some people prove themselves more worthy of eternal life, but most people stay unworthy and get eternal suffering. It is anti-equality and anti-humanitarian…
Thanks for clicking read more. Ignoring the blatant abuse being carried out by God in this setup of His world, this moral system promotes a dangerous idea in the minds of many religious followers: that authoritarian hierarchies are necessary and natural rather than imposed by humans. The pious will rise to heaven in his rightful place and the damned will not. Through faith, works, or both, in the end, most people suffer, and that’s okay. the system isn’t broken, it just works like this.
Ideally, the systems we build our society off of (and any possible deity constructs their afterlife policy, mind you) should create and foster a good world. A common misconception is that the law is there to punish evil and reward good. It is there to do neither necessarily; it is there to guide the public away from bad behavior and toward good ones. Punishment used to be how kings and autocrats thought the masses had to be corralled, but we know today that punitive prisons carry far less utility than rehabilitative ones. The only benefits to the former is control, profit, and sadists’ pleasure. A society that believes that the divine order says humans tend to be evil and deserve hell is bound to accept similar, authoritarian hierarchies on earth as divine.
In the western-influenced world where the Christian empires of old still have cultural impact, the masses are still generally not disillusioned by the boots of capitalism. This is speculation, but at least in the U.S. (the cultures with which I am most familiar), I believe this to be a result of people seeing the anti-equality, anti-freedom hierarchy of capitalism as divine.