#then i took screenshots of them like following or daying racists and homophobes or saying racist or homophobic things themselves

[joficeandwind]

I think it was about you or there's another J out there idk-

Also they're being really mean to others who either hesitate to block you or not blocking you

Ok... Let's go over this point by point.

Almost Racist over a local food: All I did was post about thinking Balut was repulsive. I didn't even know where it was from, I just learned about it and thought my disgust was post worthy. I do not know how that constitutes almost racism.

Calling Rookie the "E-Slur": I had literally no idea that Eskimo was a slur to anybody. I thought they were just a group of people that used to live in Alaska, you know, a really cold place. I thought it fit, and was completely oblivious to the apparent status of the word.

Pedophilia: I don't know how people who've been 16 for 9 days can be pedophiles. But, you know what? Maybe, enlightening me by talking to me instead of sniping at me in a discord you know I'm not in and screenshots you know I can't see would help, you fucking coward. And before anyone says anything, all I did was talk about not liking Rookie. Rookie here is directly slandering me. There is a difference.

Refer to point 2.

Ableism and Classism, and saying Rookie isn't human: I have no recollection of this, sadly, so I cannot say anything. From the rest of this, however, I struggle to approach it in good faith.

Wanting to kidnap Angel: Yes, I have an obsessive streak, and fantasize about kidnapping my girlfriend. I am a Jason Dean kinnie for a reason, heh. But, I know these things are wrong, and would never actually do it. Plus, if you actually talked to Angel, you would know that not only do they not mind, they sometimes enjoy indulging in the idea of me being hyper possessive and controlling. So, yeah.

Openly talked about wanting to get SA'd: Yes. I get off on the idea of being raped and tagged it appropriately so people who I know followed me and would be triggered didn't see it. I'm sorry for having a fetish/kink that you don't like. I can't control it, so painting me as a bad person for it seems a bit unethical, but oh well.

Jokes that my gay friends made me homophobic: I remember joking about my gay friends making me gay, not that. But, you know what, to be fair, let's say I did both. Guess what? They were jokes. If they really offended you that badly, that's your problem, not mine.

Is Transphobic: I will admit, I am uneducated on transgender people, gender dysmorphia, and the likes. I probably said some ignorant shit. But I don't hate trans people, far from it. It's how they want to live their lives, it has no effect on me or basically anybody around them, so, it's fine by me. Am I problematic with many opinions I have simply not shared on here? Probably. Do I hate an entire group of people for wanting to do something to their own body and identifying their way? No.

Misgendering Rookie: I probably have. If you ever corrected me and told me what I should say instead, that be nice. Don't ever remember that happening, though.

Said I want Rookie dead: No, I posted a meme. A "blocking them isn't enough I want them dead" meme. I am a hyperbolic and emotional person who makes hyperbolic and emotional jokes and statements. Deal with it, or don't and leave me alone. Don't try and paint me as a monster for it.

I took away all Rookies friends: ...What the fuck are you talking about?

And finally... @shadestar413. Now I understand why you are only answering in private. You're trying to keep the peace between two of your friends who are arguing. I understand that, and am sorry I caused this to happen. I just hope this helps you realize which side to be on.

And with that done...

Fuck you Rookie. Sophia, would you help me spread this around to help people realize the truth? This request goes out to other people who see and are willing to help, too.

#j rambles #herr

[spoonass69]

after being told by all my peers that im stupid and evil for calling people out for saying jewish people are their pet peeve and saying the nword and following accounts that encouraged people to send death threats to our trans classmates,,,,,, it is super relieving to have people agree with me on just like simple stuff like how that apology that tramp stamps and other racists make isn’t actually an apology

very glad to know i am in fact not crazy for not being ok with these things. sending everyone who interacted with those posts a littel kiss

#tramp stamps #tw racism #tw antisemitism #tw transphobia #tw death threats #tw death #basically i had an account for talking about my beliefs and like activism or whatever and so i was like screw it nobody is listening when #i tell them not to be racist like theyll like the post then keep saying thenword #so i took screenshots of all these people saying theyre against racism and homophobia #then i took screenshots of them like following or daying racists and homophobes or saying racist or homophobic things themselves #and was like guys cmon you cant be saying/doing/condoning these things ESPECIALLY if youre gonna say youre against it #like thats preformative #then everyone got mad at me for being too aggressive #they think i shouldve just dmed every individual (it was over 50 people from my school) #and then they told me i was crazy and needed mental help and all this stuff #and when i came out abt being sexually abused some of them called me a liar #and when i told ppl hey this dudes a whole rapist stop following him and hanging out with him #people victim blamed me and said the way i did things so publicly was like too aggressive #and then i got threats :) so i was like ok for my safety ALL dms are going to be posted no exceptions #and i put that in my bio and like everywhere and told individual people so theyd know they were gonna get posted if they dmed me #and then this one girl was like YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO POST THESE MESSAGES then went on a rant abt #saying well ive been sexually assaulted and the way youre handling this is fucking disgusting youre disgusting and also youre crazy people #change how dare you call my friends out for hanging out with people who are rapists and openly antisemetic #so yeah i posted it then someone hacked the account and deleted not just those posts #(that had the SA parts censored out)(even though that left out the context of her using her status as a victim to victim blame me) #and they deleted like everything on my page including my pieces of writing about my ideas of the concepts of good and bad #that i worked rlly hard on #whoah big rant but yeah i was feeling very much like hey maybe i am a crazy and terrible person and everything that comes out of my mouth is #wrong #but perhaps it is the racists who are in the wrong

[radicalcommonsense]

Radical Common Sense: Introduction.

Though we all may be very different, we likely have one thing in common: In one way or another 2020 has changed each and every one of us. As if these last four years hadn't already filled our brains to the brim with political jibber-jabber from the mainstream media. I think we can all agree that the news has been persistently focused on politics (more specifically allegations against President Donald Trump) and that it has been a constant noise buzzing all around us, effecting each and every one of our lives. When we turn on the radio, when we scroll through our social media feeds, when we're on the bus, or eating peacefully at a restaurant and the person behind us is talking a little too loudly. As if all of this weren't enough to endure, the pool of politics became much, much deeper for us to swim in when we were locked up in our homes for months on end.    I lost my job on March 15, 2020 when we were forced to close. I was fortunate enough to be able to continue to live comfortably with my boyfriend, but the time on my hands felt endless for the next 6 months. Like many I first went mad and began organizing every closet, cabinet, and sock drawer. I held so much pint up and nervous energy in my body that I felt like I was in a constant state of sticking a fork into an electrical socket and could burst into a series of sparks, burning to a crisp at any moment. I began dowsing myself in CBD products to try and keep my cool. I started painting, reading a ton and took an online Interior Design course???

   Once I had finally grown somewhat accustom to my new and strange life of gardening, day drinking, reading on the balcony and pretending that I was a retired old woman, that's when the riots started happening. The shutdown alone had caused even more friction to rise between both ends of the political spectrum. Conservatives voiced their objection to government overreach while Leftists called people jogging outside without a mask "grandma killers". There was certainly ignorance shown on both ends of the spectrum, but the point I'm making here is that the tension was growing with each and every day that we all were forced to stay home, leaving our means of having any income in the hands of Daddy Government.    I did my best to limit my social media intake, but even 5 minutes scrolling would reveal a whirlwind of very strong and accusatory opinions of the shutdown, Black Lives Matter, racism, systemic racism, systematic racism, another cancelled syrup bottle or comedian who wasn't politically correct in a stand up act back in 1994, white privilege, voter fraud, total Covid-19 hysteria and a whole lot of shaming those who didn't follow suit with the mainstream narrative. There were people fueling these fires and if you dared to question their motives you were on the chopping block, also embarrassingly known as Cancel Culture.

   We all know what it is, but I am afraid to think of how many of us have actually experienced it. I certainly did when I shared a video of a BLM event happening in Chicago. This video was particularly alarming because the crowd of "peaceful" protestors were so extremely organized in their attack. I felt overwhelmed with fear watching as they took their giant "Black Lives Matter" sign made of pvc pipe, that stretched across what looked like 6 lanes of highway, hid behind it, changed into all black clothing and then proceeded to use it as a shield as they grew closer to their target. Once they were close enough, the pvc pipe was pulled apart to reveal that it had been constructed from pieces of pipe that they had sharpened to a nice and lethal point. They then began to throw these sharpened pieces of pvc pipe, along with frozen water bottles, frozen cans, rocks and explosive devises at police officers who appeared to be standing back, allowing the protest to happen without interference prior to this attack. So much so that most of them were even unarmed, not expecting violence to prevail on either side. (Feel free to watch the video to see for yourself.)

   This certainly wasn't the first video I'd seen where "peaceful" protestors were being destructive or even gruesomely violent, but it was the first that made this movement look like a well organized militia, inspired by an organization which I believe has a Marxists, or communist agenda. When I shared my fears about this, calling the movement "violent" I received quite a lot of hate from the friends I'd somehow collected on Facebook over the last 10 years. They urged people not to support my creative endeavors. People took screenshots of the post and shared it on their other social accounts (completely out of context as the video was of course removed) in attempts to reach an even bigger audience. I received direct messages from total strangers who called me racists, among other things. I had already been “cancelled” by some close friends prior to this for going to the beach on the day it re-opened in Daytona and posting about it with a caption that suggested it was safe to be outside. This idea seemed to really devastate some people and they made sure to let me know it as they called me the following names: Laughably f*cking stupid, Karen, Privileged, Nazi, uninformed, insensitive, stupid b*tchh, flat-earther, ignorant f*cking b*tch, racist, a “Trumper” and the ever popular white privileged b*tch. These are just some of the insults that I can remember off the top of my head. 

   My message here is not meant to invoke pity, or rage, or anything in between, but it is necessary for me to give you some back story as to what led me to my obsession to understand something very few people care about today, the Truth. I knew that the ideas I was hearing, coming from the mouths of the majority were wrong, but I wanted to understand why and I wanted to be prepared to defend myself, since it had been made abundantly clear to me that, that was going to be necessary. So, I delved even DEEPER into politics, government, American history and the criminal justice system. I am happy to say that this thirst for knowledge led me back into school, where I'm finally finishing up my associates degree (and getting straight A's). But I digress. Time went on and I calmed my little hummingbird heart over the dramatic smearing of my name (which had previously been widely accepted due to my Leftist blabbering of things I didn't really understand) and I continued to quietly read and research.    I dared to peer my head back into the land of Social Mania and posted yet again on Facebook. This time I felt I had something to say that was rather mild on the offensive scale... that proved to be incorrect. A friend of mine had shared a video with me of a fallen soldier whom he'd fought beside in Iraq. They had grown close and the video showed as they draped his casket with the American flag. The message he sent attached to the video said "this is why I'll always stand for the flag." I found his message really touching and shared the video along with what he had said (of course not mentioning his name out of respect). Later that day I received a message from a previous co-worker that was quite belligerent and sloppy, but somewhere in his (I'm assuming drunken) rage he asked the question: "Have you been radicalized or something?"

   We are living in a world where the narrative has completely shifted. It is no longer radical to preach about the wonders of what Communism "could" be. It is no longer radical to loot, riot, burn down churches, kill police officers and even innocent child bystanders so long as it is under the guise of social justice. It is not radical to want to uproot your countries entire political system in order to replace it with a "better", socialist/communist one that has proven to not only fail but ruin/end the lives of millions. It is now radical to suggest that we should honor our flag, those who fought for our freedom and to simply lift ourselves up to stand for the American flag.

   It is now racist to celebrate the 4th of July, insensitive to celebrate Thanksgiving, homophobic to practice Christianity and don't even think about subjectively acknowledging the accomplishments of Christopher Columbus. In fact, don't dare to celebrate the intellect of any of our founding fathers. It is now radical to be proud to be an American. It is radical to support a free-market economy. It is radical to defend straight white men against any and all accusations as they are the "obvious" oppressors of all. People will gasp if you question the effects of Drag Queen Story Hour and you're  likely just "uneducated" if you don't understand why the nuclear family is outdated.      

   In summary, do not practice critical thinking and especially not Common Sense. Just repeat after the mainstream media and you might be spared from exposing your truly "radical" ideas about traditional American values and your love of oppressive straight white men. 

   I will continue to write about these topics as well as covering current events from the perspective of someone who is dedicated to understanding the Truth, how we can connect what we’re seeing today to human History & to earn a better understanding of human behavior. I do not intend to use this as a platform to rant vigorously about my own personal feelings. Rather to defend what I believe to be Common Sense values. 

#marxist communism usa america biggovernmentsucks goverment taxationistheft turningpointusa tpusa conservative cuteservative #free market #big government #critical thinking #history #american history #psychology #clinical psychology #human behavior #mental health #patriot #christian #christian woman #cancel culture #politics #conservative women #candace owens #voice of reason #voice of the people #we the people #the american constitution #constitutional rights #quarentine shutdown lockdown walkaway #stories of us #lockdown #shutdown #media #mainstream media #facebook #politically correct

[gnostic-heretic]

so... about recent events involving a certain popular artist

so i talked to one of the mods of @historicalhetaliacollective about the recent situation and i want to say a couple words in defence of the mods and their position because i’ve found myself in a similar situation in more recent times.

so a few disclaimers before i start; - i am NOT a member of the historical hetalia collective nor was i involved in anything that went on with them  - i have permission of other admins/mods involved to talk about this but i’ll keep everything anonymous to avoid any further retaliation; i do not have permission from BM but frankly, at this point, i don’t care - i am NOT saying that the hetalia fandom (or even more specifically the historical hetalia content/community) doesn’t have a problem with racism/eurocentrism among other things: i mean, it is a pervasive factor in our society, and most people in the english speaking fandom (and i’m absolutely including myself) have a western background so this is a problem we need to constantly watch out for and work on

that said 

as soon as i saw the posts going around i immediately knew who Banned Member (from now on BM) of the collective was. 

first of all, this person has long left the hetalia fandom so i don’t know what reason a certain popular artist (from now PA) had to bring these events back and twist the facts (see here) if not for personal and financial gain.  

second... it pains me to say but BM’s behavior has been well known around the fandom for years, as were their “conservative” opinions.  in spite of that, BM was a quite popular person in this fandom and had managed to create a clique of people around themselves that everyone knew wouldn’t hesitate to stir up drama and be on their side if it was needed. 

a few years back i was part of a fandom project together with 4 other people. BM immediately submitted an application to be part of it: me and other admins/mods considered it, and thinking about what would happen if we said no, we accepted BM as part of the project. however a few days later a member of the HHC (who was also part of the project) came forward to us bringing screenshots from the very same racist incidents that PA is denouncing now, or at least i’m assuming it’s the same.

they let me know that BM was banned from HHC for their racist comments and told me that if BM were to continue being part of this project, they and other people who were part of HHC would not feel comfortable taking part in it.

so this proves, first of all, that members of HHC were never indifferent (let alone condining) about the racism this person spewed. i have spoken to more than one person i know personally, and read the testimonies of some people i’ve never spoken to, but i look up to, who are part of HHC and it seems to me like all of them were sincerely either afraid of backlash or inexperienced and not equipped to deal with this situation.

now going back to the project, that’s the tricky part. because we knew we were gonna face backlash; but the screenshots spoke for themselves and we didn’t want our project to be associated with someone who at very least *used to be* openly racist (as much as they told us their opinions had changed with time). and oh man.

BM immediately took to one of their own servers to complain about us and how unfair it was that we excluded them, and how pissed they were at members of HHC for even bringing this up. there was a lot of name calling and a lot of mocking us (both project organisers and HHC members), and one person whose username was (i am not joking) a reference to a fictional pedophile even made some very inflammatory comments, saying that they were going to pull out their guns on us, heavily implying that we deserved to be shot. whether this was a joke or bantering, it is still pretty telling about the kind of atmosphere in the server and about what kind of clique we were dealing with.

thankfully one of us was in said server (because BM invited several people in the RP community to join at one point) and managed to see all this and drop a message in there, telling BM and their clique that they saw it all and to stop with the endless trash talking: and thankfully nothing more came of it, the name calling and harrassment never left the server in question. 

but it’s ridiculous to say that the mods of HHC were wrong in fearing retaliation; as i said, this person’s behavior was well known.  if the mods of HHC are guilty, then so is every single person in this fandom who followed BM, and who was too afraid to speak up whenever they dropped racist takes about muslims (especially hijabis) or whenever they said very borderline misogynistic/homophobic things. 

i admit that i was also very afraid to speak up for the longest time, and felt inclined to keep things civil for the safety of other people in the online spaces i was in charge of; at this moment in time, i am *still* afraid of making this post because there’s no guarantee this person won’t be back and won’t absolutely obliterate me with harrassment. so if the mods of HHC are guilty for not speaking up soon enough, so am i. 

to me, this whole situation seems to come less from a sincere place of concern about the racism that goes unaddressed in the fandom, and more like a way to punch down on what is ultimately a small group of people (which includes POC as well)... for what? clout? money? when you have several thousands of followers (who pay you on patreon for hetalia content, no less) and are very obviously wealthy, that doesn’t ring as very sympathetic reasoning to me. 

#not making this post for clout but because one of the mods of HHC encouraged me to speak up #DO NOT REBLOG unless i give you permission to do so this is a hard boundary and i cannot overstate it

[mattisspeaking]

Yo, what’s up. I’ve heard there has been some talk on me so I thought I’d address it.

I have been a member of the RPC since I was 16 (a little over ten years ago). I’ve rp’d on tumblr and twitter in those times. Over the past couple of months I have been in a few different rp’s all where I play a gay character as I am gay in real life. I have seen so many changes in this community, to it being a close knit group to it being inundated with racist homophobic snakes that everyone has done a great job at weeding out and exposing.

There are a few things I want to get off my chest though; The Stardew Saga, The Podcast and London Calls.

First off, Stardew;

Now to be completely honest I can’t remember Stardew all that well, I do remember that they allowed m*c to be part of the rp for such a long time even after they had evidence for this. Then all of a sudden I received a message from them, I deleted my discord which had the screenshot but it basically said they were kicking me from the rp due to a complaint they received from one of the members regarding incesti*us activity they went on to say that the admins had seen screenshots and had determined that what they saw felt like incesti*us behaviour and that it wasn’t tolerated in the group and they will be posting unfollows shortly. - this threw me, I went back and spoke with the twin mun and they told me that they felt uncomfortable with the comments and they should have spoke to me about it first. I told them they were valid and apologised for making them uncomfortable.

I am not into inc*st at all. I have 6 siblings and we are a close family, a healthy family relationship should be encouraged and when these twins were supposed to be extremely close and full of fun and laughter, making jokes and complimenting eachother was never out of the question, I have an older brother and he’s good looking, he’s a super great person too, I don’t see an issue complimenting my brother, because although I’m gay, just saying compliments DOESNT mean anything other than just that, compliments. I never once said anything sexual towards the other mun, it was all playful jokes about looks and the other muse made jokes back to my character. But I feel that because my character was gay, it’s a different issues. If you can’t see compliments from a family member as anything other than something sexual than that problem is on you. You’re the one having those thoughts, not me.

Podcast; this is something I gauged interest in while still in Stardew, people seemed down about it, I was never going to mention rp’s or characters or face claims to any real extent but I was going to talk about the community in short about how it comes together to tackle controversy and scandals, etc, and talk about my own experiences in different sections of the community. Honestly it lasted a day and then I deleted it and deleted all signs of it from the internet. I don’t even know how that many people even knew about it but I made a mistake and I never went back to it.

London Calls;

Yeah, I was in Sunwell, we took our muses when it closed and I offered to help run the new rp, coming up with the ideas were fun, yes I live in the UK so it was easy for me to do something close to home, especially seeing as I wasn’t the only admin who was gmt there. When people started to talk about the Stardew thing again they found out I was a member of the admin team, when they DM’d the main about leaving because of me, I felt hurt. I never want to make anyone uncomfortable and so I immediately resigned from the rp and and my admin role. I explained everything and why and left the discord admin chat and logged out of all accounts and they changed the passwords so I have nothing to do with LCHQ I’m not even a member.

Discord; not many people know this but over the past three years I’ve had a stalker through rp’s. He’s followed me and found me countless amounts of times, made me feel really threatened as they are able to blackmail me as we chatted socially about three years ago, I was easily manipulated and sent nudes to this guy. He has in turn been blackmailing me, hence why I used alias’ in rp’s, but ive been easy to spot cause I’m normally really active and I’m in GMT. I was on discord tonight and I got a request, I accepted it and I got a message from him. I asked him how he found my discord and he told me about people been sharing screenshots of their chats with me. I then checked @rpslayed @scorpiorpt and @imurjoys and that’s when I saw the discourse about myself, I haven’t yet seen the screenshots. I’m in a incredibly fragile mental state right now and that’s no excuse for my behaviour of doing the podcast which I didn’t do but that was still stupid, but the whole inc*st thing is one sided and not true in any sense.

I have quit the RPC, I am in no other groups, I left Juno, Eden and London and have now deleted my discord. Please I really hope people can stop talking about me now I’m not in the community anymore. I will be logging out of this tumblr as well. So please don’t reblog or message as I won’t get it, just read it, understand it, and understand that words can hurt and there is two sides to every story

If my stalker is reading this which I know he will. Fuck you. You have held onto this for too long, get a life. You’re 28 years old. Leak my n*des. I don’t care anymore. Bye.

#rpt #twitter rp #rp twitter #rpc

[lastsonlost]

Just when you thought this story could not get any more disgusting.

Now we have one slimy disgusting trash person being offended by a whole group of slimy disgusting trash people.

The Des Moines Register reporter fired in the wake of a scandal involving offensive tweets — posted by a viral star he interviewed and then his own — broke his silence Friday, telling BuzzFeed News he had been “abandoned” by the newspaper after following standard editorial practice by performing a social media search on the person he was profiling.

“This event basically set my entire life on fire,” reporter Aaron Calvin said.

Calvin, 27, was dismissed by the Iowa newspaper Thursday evening following criticism online in the wake of his article about 24-year-old casino security worker Carson King.

On Sept. 14 at the Iowa State University vs. University of Iowa football game in Ames, King had appeared in the background of ESPN’s College GameDay holding a sign that said “Busch Light Supply Needs Replenished,” along with his Venmo handle. After King received $600, he announced he would instead donate his growing beer fund to a local children’s hospital. The fundraiser soon went viral, and Venmo and Anheuser-Busch offered to match the donations. King wound up raising over $1 million, and he was quickly catapulted into being a local legend and viral internet hero.

Upon the fundraiser hitting the million-dollar mark, Calvin decided to profile King, whom he’d already covered in several stories. But soon Calvin, who worked as a BuzzFeed employee between 2013 and 2014, found two racist tweets King had posted when he was 16. Calvin wrote that the tweets, which have since been deleted, were jokes “comparing black mothers to gorillas and another making light of black people killed in the Holocaust.”

Calvin told BuzzFeed News it’s standard practice at the Des Moines Register to background check people they profile through court records and social media. “I was reminded by an editor to background Carson...and I found a few tweets that he published in high school that were racist jokes,” he said. “I knew if I found them, other people would find them as well.”

Des Moines Register executive editor Carol Hunter declined to comment for this story, but referred BuzzFeed News to an op-ed she published in which she called “backgrounding” an “essential” part of reporting. “The process helps us to understand the whole person,” she wrote.

Calvin said his editors told him to ask King about the tweets, so he did. "He was deeply regretful, and I recognized that these were not representative artifacts of Carson,” Calvin said.

In writing his profile, Calvin said he decided to include just a “brief mention of these tweets and his apology at the bottom of this profile, after the glowing synopsis of his charity.” The reporter said he felt an obligation to share the information he’d uncovered with the public, but thought he did so in a “thoughtful” way that showed the tweets no longer showed King’s worldview.

He also maintained he did this with the full blessing and awareness of senior editors. “Throughout this entire process of the discovery and inclusion of the tweets, the editor knew, the editorial board knew, and the executive editor knew how I’d included them and handled them for the article, and as far as I knew, approved of that,” he said.

On Tuesday night, before the profile was published, King held a press conference to apologize for the tweets, which he said had been found by a reporter. He said he wrote the posts when he was a high school sophomore and had been making reference to the show Tosh.0.

“In re-reading it today — eight years later — I see it was an attempt at humor that was offensive and hurtful,” he continued. “I am embarrassed and stunned to reflect on what I thought was funny when I was 16 years old. I want to sincerely apologize.”

Anheuser-Busch cut ties with King after the press conference. King said he did not blame Calvin, saying that he appreciated that he’d pointed out the tweets and had simply wanted to apologize. “The Des Moines Register has been nothing but kind in all of their coverage, and I appreciate the reporter pointing out the post to me,” he tweeted.

Upon publishing the story, Calvin said he was immediately met with criticism from people across Iowa who accused him of trying to denigrate a local hero.

But any media ethics debate about the newsworthiness of tweets written by someone when they were a teenager was soon swept aside by a tidal wave of harassment, doxing, and death threats Calvin received.

Soon, influential right-wing media figures also began circulating screenshots of Calvin’s own past offensive tweets that had been uncovered. In posts dating back to 2010, Calvin had used “gay” as a pejorative, written “fuck all cops,” and spelled out the word “niggas” twice when he was quoting others, including a Kanye West lyric. “Now that gay marriage is legal,” he wrote in one 2012 tweet, “I’m totally going to marry a horse.”

Calvin told BuzzFeed News these were “frankly embarrassing” tweets that he “would not have published today,” but said they had been “taken out of context” and were being used to “wield disingenuous arguments against me.”

Calvin said editors at the Des Moines Register directed him to apologize in a tweet, which he said he agreed to do because he was “afraid and just trying to comply with what I was being told so I could possibly hold onto my job.”

In the tweet, Calvin apologized for “not holding myself to the same high standards as The Register holds others.”

“I regret publishing that tweet now,” Calvin told BuzzFeed News. “Because I was never trying to hold Carson to any kind of ‘higher standard’ or any kind of standard at all. I was trying to do my job as a reporter, and I think I did so to the best of my ability.”

As soon as the story broke, Calvin said he began receiving a barrage of death threats. He said HR reps at Gannett, which owns the Des Moines Register, forbade him from speaking to the media and told him to leave his apartment for his own safety. They offered to put him up in a hotel, but he stayed with a friend instead.

“I recognize that I’m not the first person to be doxed like this — this whole campaign was taken up by right-wing ideologues and largely driven by that force,” he said. “It was just a taste of what I assume that women and journalists of color suffer all the time, but the kind of locality and regional virality of the story made it so intense.”

On Thursday, while he was speaking to police about the death threats, Calvin said he got a call from Gannett representatives. “They told me they were going to offer me an option — that I could resign or I could be fired — with no severance,” he said. “It was really a semantic difference, I guess, so I chose to be fired.”

A Gannett spokesperson told BuzzFeed News the company does not comment on personnel matters.

In her op-ed, Hunter, the executive editor, wrote they were now evaluating how reporters perform background checks on subjects and what information should be published from those checks. She said their focus was partly on “the shift in social media culture and how activities on those platforms reflect upon a person’s newsworthiness in general.”

With regard to Calvin’s firing, Hunter wrote that they “took appropriate action because there is nothing more important in journalism than having readers’ trust.”

King did not respond to a request for comment on Calvin’s dismissal.

Calvin said he hasn’t heard from Gannett or his newsroom leaders since his firing, but said some of his former coworkers have reached out in support.

Though Calvin said he regrets his tweets, he thinks they were taken out of context by bad actors to make him look like a racist and homophobe. “As I said when I was speaking with Carson, I don’t think people’s past social media statements should be made to make blanket characterizations about them,” he said.

He also expressed his frustration about the “false narrative about me ‘canceling’ Carson.”

“Carson was never in danger of being canceled — there was no attempt or intent to quote-unquote ‘cancel’ him,’” Calvin said. “He’s raised hundreds of thousands more dollars since this happened. The governor of Iowa declared a ‘Carson King Day.’”

(“You can make a mistake in your life, and still go on to do amazing things,” Gov. Kim Reynolds tweeted Wednesday. “@CarsonKing2, thank you for reminding us all of that! #IowaProud.”)

Calvin said he’s still afraid to go out in public and is still staying at his friend’s house. He isn’t sure what he will do next, but hopes he can keep reporting.

“I’m just taking it day by day,” he said. “I feel like I’m a good writer and a good reporter and I was doing my job to the best of my ability.”

Calvin said he also still deeply believes in the “necessity of local journalism.”

“Frankly, it’s really disappointing to me to be abandoned by my former employer,” he said. “I still in a lot of ways support the Register — I just wish they had believed in me.”

Have you ever read so much bullshit that it made you almost vomit in your mouth?

This motherfucker just try to roast a man's life and is now trying to play the victim after he got a dose of his own hypocritical medicine.

Also BuzzFeed is in rare form today. We have both the right-wing Boogeyman, online harassment and women and people of color being in votes for pity points.

Did you ever see obvious manipulation look so obvious?

#carson king #Aaron Colvin #buzzfeed #call out culture

[swampgallows]

some of the tags on that 4chan post are so right, like... tumblr is extremely fucking sheltered compared to the shit i saw on 4chan at like 14 years old. i have infinite stories, some personal and some general. i had started visiting 4chan in late 2004—long before /r9k/ was even a board, back when /5/ was still a secret board and they had JUST taken /l/ down. that probably isnt even english to most people. basically i started visiting 4chan BEFORE i started playing world of warcraft. that’s how young i (and the site itself) was. i saw one of NCH85’s flash animations on deviantart and was directed to 4chan.

and that was even before 4chan became more “mainstream” after the “don’t mess with football” incident in 2007ish, when gaston and desu whatever became memes and all of a sudden there was some group of people taking “anonymous is legion. we do not forgive. we do not forget” to heart and very, very seriously, which is when all the v for vendetta mask shit started. before that it was just like “pool’s closed” and shit, which is a pretty innocuous but still incredibly offensive meme. the full phrase was “pool’s closed due to AIDS” from some homophobic fearmongering lifetime movie or some shit. 

zippocat, cracky-chan, nevada-tan, and “babyfuck it’s awwright” were memes. shitting dick nipples was a meme. pedobear, “4chan party van”, and guilty gear’s bridget were memes. cockmongler and happy n*gro were memes. violent, homicidal, homophobic, transphobic, racist, pedophiliac, ableist, sexist, or just plain disgusting—it was regurgitated hundreds of times a day. 

i think the average tumblr user would fucking faint if they saw half the shit i was exposed to on a daily basis as a teenager. AND THEY SHOULD. this isnt meant to be a posturing thing; it’s a testament to how fucking fucked up the place was/is and how white supremacy gaining real actual traction on the chons was pretty much inevitable. but even for “old” 4chan users, to genuinely care about anything on 4chan is also a noob move, and nazis are considered undesirables in that they are not in on the joke; the collective joke being that nobody on 4chan takes anything seriously or cares about anything, or, as the classic meme went, “Internet is serious business.”

overall 4chan’s focus was on desensitization to every degree. it made disenfranchised young dudes with zero power or skills or prospects feel like they were cutting their teeth in one way or another, upholding “lulz” as key currency. their naivete told them they were rational for hating everything, and their cynicism told them they were tough for being able to laugh at everything. 

the infamous screenshot illustrating this is as follows:

“SMAP 01/23/05 [January 23, 2005] You COMPLETELY miss the point of /b/. /b/ is not Fark “oh hay guys i found a cute link ha ha.” /b/ is not Slashdot’s pseudo-intellectual discussion. /b/ is not LiveJournal, SuicideGirls, or HotOrNot. /b/ is a place for people to be monsters- the horrible, senseless, uncaring monsters that they really are.

Tsunami owns the Asian continent and we laugh. Psychotic emo takes his sickness out on a cat [zippocat] and we laugh. People mutilate themselves for no appearant [sic] reason [cracky-chan] and we laugh. Suicide, homicide, genocide- we laugh. Racism, sexism, discrimination, xenophobia and baseless hate- we laugh. We are mindless “me-too”ism; we are irrational preference; we are pointless flamewars; we are the true face of the internet.”

If you didn’t catch the date, this was in 2005. this mindset founded the event horizon for the descent into white supremacy. 

“Anonymous [OP] 01/30/05 [January 30th, 2005] Why did you guys suddenly turn on Queen G? One day she’s one of you, the next you’re pouring on the h8. What’s up? What’d she do? Anonymous [1] SHE’S A FURRY Anonymous [2] FUCK FURRIES Anonymous [3] WE HATE EVERYONE Anonymous [4] INCLUDING OURSELVES”

there was a SHITLOAD of funny shit on 4chan, and that was part of the allure and self-aggrandizement as well; if you could stomach all of the shit, you were rewarded with the cream of the crop, top quality memes and lulz. a good chunk of the internet as we know it was defined by 4chan. people were saying epic win/fail in 2004 and then it started appearing on tshirts in 2008. rage comics, reaction images, and one could even argue image macros (the classic terminology for a meme) were started on 4chan. part of the mentality was that the lack of censorship or filter allowed ANY content to thrive, made by anyone and judged by all, and therefore only truly worthwhile content survived (especially on /b/, where you could refresh a thread and it would already be sage’d, or bumped down, by reams of new threads). 

but we still weren’t truly aware of what we were laughing at, whether it was considered ironic or not, hence poor pepe the frog being stolen as an alt-right symbol. I remember having to stifle my laughter during a history of racism lesson in my junior year of high school (~2007) because they had slides of resist dot org racist cartoons. they are comics by a white supremacist, chiefly anti-black and featuring racist caricatures, but they had gained new life on 4chan as memes like “bix nood” and others. edits were made reappropriating racist cartoons like “around blacks, never relax” into “around snacks [W.T. Snacks, a 4chan moderator known for swift banning practices], never relax” and “around elves, watch yourselves” with the caricature edited to have long ears. 

in our minds, we were laughing at the artist for his racism and moronic ideas, but the fact of the matter was that we were still consuming, and laughing at, racist cartoons. (cue “you are not immune to propaganda”.) much as dave chappelle realized his satire was being consumed straightforwardly by racists and used to reinforce the stereotypes he was making fun of, a lot of people on 4chan took these comics at face value, especially now that their messages had been “updated” in a language they understood. 

i appreciate it for the wellspring of content that it was, but 4chan’s current users have forgotten its original cardinal rule of “Internet is serious business” and i feel like it now definitely needs to be terminated, especially now that moot has stepped down.

#slurs tw / #blathering #long post / #racism cw / #violence cw / #ok to rb

[agoutirex]

The Complete Isaac Baranoff Saga

Some of you may remember that, for the past five years, I’ve been the target of a low-level, on-and-off harassment campaign by a guy named Isaac Baraoff over multiple Internet sites. Isaac is completely delusional, and his attacks against me on DeviantArt, Furaffinity, Tumblr, TVTropes, and Wikifur all fell flat because those are sites are all, to some extent, moderated by actual human beings who could easily see that Isaac was a ranting lunatic. But since Twitter is an automated Kafkaesque mess that will ban you and expect an appeal before it will tell you the reason for your ban, he has succeeded on getting my account deleted from that site.

Why? Because, after Isaac has multiple times on multiple platforms accused me and anyone who criticizes him of being racist against him for being black, I pointed out that he’s actually white.

Ultimately this is just Internet drama, but I am kind of annoyed to lose my account because of a delusional troll with a pointless vendetta.  So just because I want to rant about it, here’s the full Isaac Baranoff story (and other Isaac related paraphenalia) in a master post. Unfortunately, since many of the incidents happened up to 5 years ago, I don’t have screenshots or links for some things (Isaac tends to either delete or get deleted a lot). But I think you’ll find from the links that I can provide, that nothing I’m claiming is too extraordinary for him.

He first started attacking me after I drew a comic poking fun at Ralph Bakshi. For some reason, this made Isaac extremely mad online and sent him into a rage during which he claimed that my webcomic Murry Purry Fresh and Furry was a ripoff of his webcomic Horndog, despite the fact that I had never heard of Horndog and the two look nothing alike.  He also made grandiose claims that he was the first webcomic to have its own website on the Internet, which is a weird thing to say as (1) it’s not and (2) who fucking cares.

When I made fun of his plagiarism claim by saying YEAH I TOTALLLLY RIPPED YOU OFF, he added that to my Wikifur page as an admission of guilt.

Gotta humble brag a little bit here, cuz I wanna: I should also mention that Isaac continuously attacked me for “never having been published by a real publisher” supposedly unlike him.  I don’t think that you need a traditional publisher’s backing to be a legitimate cartoonist, BUT I will point out that (1) Isaac’s claim to be a published cartoonist rests entirely on the fact that his comics are posted on his own website and (2) I have published comics on my own websites Murrypurry.com and Guttersnipecomic.com as well as having work published by SLG Publishing, Jarlidium Press, Radio Comics, Antarctic Press, and Vivid Publishing – as well as publishing another graphic novel, Misunderstanding Comics, through a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign.  During my initial argument with Isaac, numerous people pointed this out, but Isaac refuses to acknowledge anything other than his own website as a “legitimate” publisher.

Because we like baiting Isaac, Aurelina and I talked about his delusions on several episodes of our comedy podcast SHOW: here, here and here.

Isaac has insisted that every single person who has supported me against his preposterous claims is actually one of my sockpuppets, including 5thehardway, Sonderjen, Technicolorpie, Rabbitshakejake, Bat-faced Alan, Zoemoss, Skoon, and Moodyferret.

He’s obsessed with the Nostalgia Critic’s Channel Awesome and frequently tries to rope various Channel Awesome people into his arguments to support him. To my knowledge, none of them have ever actually responded to him. EDIT: I stand corrected! Apparently, Jerrid Foiles is pals with Isaac:

He created a troll Twitter account to spew homophobic invective against me, and continues to squat on the “Agouti Rex” name on that site.

When his plagiarism claims failed to get any traction, Isaac started claiming that all criticism against him was due to racism and anti-Semitism. Once again, keep in mind:

When King Cheetah made fun of Isaac for attacking me, Isaac replied with a comment mentioning a Channel Awesome reviewer called The Rap Critic. King Cheetah, not knowing who that was, asked “What, is that the Nostalgia Critic’s new thing?” Any normal person would, of course, understand that to mean “Is that the Nostalgia Critic’s new schtick/persona/bit/whatever?” Isaac, however, has hilariously and willfully misinterpreted “thing” to mean that King Cheetah was referring to the Rap Critic as the Nostalgia Critic’s property and thus slave. He uses this to consistently accuse King Cheetah of racism.

In the same conversation, King Cheetah sarcastically asked if The Rap Critic was some fedora-wearing neckbeard. Isaac apparently confused fedora with fez and, being of the entire geographical region of North Africa and the Middle East, assumed that only monkeys wear fezes so this must be some kind of racist slur. Isaac has consistently deleted comments from anyone trying to explain the difference between a fez and fedora.

He apparently tried to goad both Dana Simpson and Jay Naylor into political fights (Isaac is a big wanky libertarian), but neither of them took the bait. Even so, he was proud enough of his instigation attempts that he listed them as “notable incidents” on his Wikifur page before it was blanked. Isaac initially singled out Naylor for abuse after Naylor made a disparaging Twitter comments about Rage Against the Machine; Isaac to this day still will go on long rants about how because of this he preemptively refused to give Naylor “a contract” with his imaginary “publishing company.”

In an argument with The Onion’s Nathan Rabin, Isaac claimed to be more successful/richer than Rabin because he owned his own “publishing company” that “sold more comics than Marvel and DC on a good day.”

Most recently, Isaac attacked Frank Coniff of MST3K fame on Twitter – as near as I can tell because Frank made fun of John Bolton? I’m not too clear on this, because Isaac deleted his comment after completely melting down in Frank’s mentions.

Isaac also recently had a complete meltdown when Anniemae04 didn’t follow him back on Twitter; after that, he had a second related melt-down attacking Plebcomics. You can see in his Plebcomics melt-down that Isaac is once again claiming to have BIG WHEEL connections in indie comics & animation; this time he’s claiming to know Ralph Bakshi, while he kept insisting he knew Bobby London when he attacked me.

  That’s all I got from now. Anyone out there who has any more tales of Isaac Baronoff, please let me know! I’m curious to compile more notes on his psychosis.

Under the cut: EVERYONE WHO MAKES FUN OF ISAAC IS A BETTER CARTOONIST THAN HE IS

[sunlinesinner]

anxiety bubbles in my stomach when i see your face. you disgust me, and i’m obsessed with it. i’ve tried to tell people you’re crazy. i’ve promised myself that karma will come to bite you in the ass at some point.

but karma hasn’t come yet, and i wait in anticipation.

you’re such a bitch. and i’ll explain myself the best way i know how: a list, in chronological order. 

the things you’ve done:

it was little lies at first. you said you saw an angel. we were all religious and went to church together, so who was i to say you were bluffing ? 

you said you saw an angel. and then you said you had a full conversation with gabriel. about your homework. i’m not religious anymore but i guess if angels exist, its possible ?

you said you had depression. depression is common. a lot of people have it. i think i’ve got it. who even knows at this point ? we all feel a little bit depressed sometimes.

you said you had anxiety. we advised you to get therapy. 

depression and anxiety became your dominant personality traits. not actual depression and anxiety as your personality, just you talking about having those. all. the. time. your instagram stories becoming a shrine for the romanticized, attention seeking yet somehow trendy memes glamorizing slits on wrists and mouths full of prescription pills. you were turning into a walking advertisement for delicate pain that you can have too, free of charge. call yourself depressed on instagram and people will pity you. you reveled in the attention it brought you.

at first, people reached out. “you keep posting that you’re depressed, i just wanted to see if you’re doing okay ?” “hey let me know if you ever need a safe place to talk. i’m here for you.” and we were. we were there for you.

you said your parents were “looking into” getting therapy for you. i’ve been to therapy. it doesn’t take long to sign up. your dad is a therapist, he knows how it works.

you said your dad diagnosed you with anxiety and depression. you and i and your dad all know, that’s not how it works.

over time, fewer and fewer people reached out to you. it was the same shit. nobody knew if you were faking it or not. everyone wanted to believe you, because what kind of fucked up person fakes a serious mental illness for attention ?

people stopped listening. whether you actually had mental illnesses or not, you were treating it like some sort of fucked-up hobby. you weren’t interested in getting help. you were content with you father’s biased “diagnosis” and your depression and anxiety became nothing more than some fun, quirky words you liked to use to describe yourself. it was a meme. a troll. people stopped paying attention to you, and you hated it.

three is better than two ! you started saying you had panic attack disorder and people started listening again. several panic attacks every day, at school, you said. people who didn’t know what it means to have a panic attack started listening again. more desperately craved attention.

no, crying in the school bathroom at lunch is not a panic attack.

you started saying you had a stalker. oh, your journey with boys. i know i’m a bitch for writing this. i own that. at least i’m not committing service dog fraud. (oops, spoiler.) a stalker who would follow you home from school, you told everyone. never attached a name, just stalker. i mean, you could have been telling the truth. i just think that someone as desperate for attention as you would have been happy to have a stalker. 

you had a random stalker, and then your neighbor confessed his undying love for you. yep, the standoffish, chill surfer boy across the street had a fat crush on you. he begged you to date him. pleaded on his knees for you to be his girlfriend. he, a solid 7.5 with a decent personality, begged for you, a 4 on a good day, to like him back. almost comedic. you, of course, turned him down flat. he apparently got over it right away because he had a girlfriend a week later. (he’s not a fuckboy, they’re still together.)

you added more. a special type of eating disorder that’s so rare that you couldn’t remember what it’s called. (in which you just aren’t ever hungry but you eat regularly anyways ?) you “came out” as autistic to your parents, which is insulting both to those with autism and those in the lgbtq+ community. you started saying you were allergic to gluten and dairy, but ate both in copious amounts anyways. “there’s pills for that,” i told you. “eleven dollars at target to relieve the stomach pains you won’t shut up about. you don’t need a diagnosis for lactaid.” you never took my advice. you kept being loud, eating cheezits and begging for attention. you labeled yourself with more mental illnesses that i can’t remember. what i do remember is you listing them all. there had to be at least seven or eight. all without a therapist.

you graduated. actually, you took the ged and told everyone you graduated early. people congratulated you on being smart enough to graduate early and again, you reveled in their attention. i knew you took the ged because my mom was friends with your mom, and your mom told my mom who promptly told me. even my mom think’s you’re batshit crazy. i told a few of my friends who were for some reason still hanging out with you, who had gone to your graduation party. everyone i told was shocked that you lied about that shit.

you got a service dog. actually, you bought a dog off of craigslist and a vest off of amazon. you said you trained it yourself, and it was for your life-threatening disabilities that remained unidentified. but you didn’t always bring the dog places with you, especially when it was inconvenient like bringing it to disneyland. so i guess your life-threatening disabilities were only life-threatening sometimes.

i confronted you. i texted you, calling you out. i told you i didn’t believe most of the shit you were saying. i told you that if this was true, you needed serious help and instead you were posting shitty memes about it. i told you to stop lying about random shit like being allergic to gluten and having graduated high school. i screenshotted the whole conversation so you couldn’t lie about what i said.

you blocked me. then you posted on your story about how i had blackmailed you, i had stabbed you in the back and made fun of you for having mental illnesses. you said i called you weak for having mental illnesses. that i was a bully, that you were taking a break from social media because you were done with my harassment and needed some time to think about things.

you didn’t take a break from social media. you unblocked me and requested to follow me again. i denied your request. one of my friends sent me the post you had made about me, along with screenshots of you texting her calling me a “brat”. you’re a big girl, you can say bitch. that’s what i said about you. i sent the friend the whole conversation. i sent that conversation to several of our friends, actually. everyone was shocked at how you twisted my words. when asked, you refused to show people our conversation to prove you weren’t lying about what i said. you refused, saying that when you blocked me our dm conversation had disappeared. it’s funny because when i blocked you back, i still had the whole thing. 

we stopped talking, obviously. we still had mutual friends, so we were invited to some of the same events sometimes (only the big ones though. you didn’t make the “squad” pictures). you kept your head down. you didn’t look me in the eye. i could feel you staring at me when i wasn’t looking, but whenever i turned, your eyes whipped back down to your phone screen.

you were really bitter towards me. you talked tons of shit, but never to my face. the friends we shared were always closer to me than they were to you, so whenever you talked shit i’d hear about it. like one year, i was having a halloween party. one of our friends reported to me that you said you were gonna have an even better halloween party, and you were inviting 50 plus people. except nobody showed up to your party, and you ended up at my house at the end of the evening, sitting in the corner with your face illuminated by your phone screen. you should have just stayed home and saved yourself some embarrassment.

now, you’re leasing a tesla with money you don’t have for clout. you’re dating a boy who i’m 90% sure is a closeted gay (i hope this doesn’t come across as insensitive, my basis for this is that he wrote a song about being gay and later deleted the song off of his page). you’ve lost all of our mutual friends because they stopped believing your bullshit. you’re homophobic. racist. sexist. you probably unironically watch girl defined.

i mentioned at the beginning of this that i’m waiting for karma to hit you. but reading over everything i just wrote, it seems like it already has.

#depression #rant #anxiety #anger #tw #trigger warning #suicide #mental illness #mental health #i fucking hate this bitch #karma

[sonotalady]

I have a question. Why haven’t we canceled Azealia Banks yet?

We have canceled many other celebrities for less and even questioned their mental stability but Bank’s flip-flopping ass seems to be allowed time and time again to be the face of the word “toxic” and “hypocrisy,” yet we just let her slide on through until her next episode.

The alleged musician (yes, alleged) has openly called herself a racist, openly been a homophobe, and consistently degrades black men and black women, and for some reason, people still try to rationalize her erratic behavior. Get sis some help. We want to get Chris Brown help, we want to get Kanye West help, we kicked out Omorasa (I still can’t spell her name even though it’s a google search away), Stacy Dash and Ben Carson, but nobody bats an eye at Azealia who embodies each of these people…except Chris because she hasn’t been in a domestic violence scandal (yet). I mean, sis didn’t event trend properly today.

If you’re not up to date with her shenanigans, let me walk you through it. Let’s start with most recently, her beef with Belcalis (Cardi B), and it’s not the first time she has attacked Cardi either. According to Bank’s argument, Cardi is a caricature of black women (despite being black herself) and apparently, black women cannot behave like Cardi and make it far. I mean, Tiffany Haddish literally becoming famous for pissing on people in a movie be damned, and to hell with Lil Kim’s entire essence back in the day (I still want her Got Dick shirt), and I mean we can just forget about Trina’s neck, her back, her pussy and her crack. Frankly, maybe if Bank’s focused on her career and being true to herself WITHOUT shitting on other people maybe, just maybe she too could be a proud, carefree black woman.

Banks is obviously not happy with herself and is projecting her insecurities onto other artists. Her lack of stardom without having someone’s name attached to the headline bothers her. Think about the last time you’ve seen Bank’s name in the news without someone else there. The only people who really care about her are her trash fans, and gossip blogs (myself included. I had time today).

And while the media has a strong bias for people of color, Bank’s issue is majorly her own fault. She’s just an unpleasant person. She attacks you today then loves you tomorrow. She loves you Wednesday then shits on you at 11:59 p.m. that same day. We saw that when she professed her love for Donald Trump, and then turned around recently and said he’s making a mockery of the presidency. Which is it Banks? Which is it? No one trusts her. She probably can’t turn her back on herself.

But let’s look at Bank’s hypocrisy response by response so you can see how vapid this woman truly is.

Let’s start with Trump:

Banks in her interview on the Problematic Brunch (The Breakfast Club) said: “Everybody keeps trying to pin this love for Trump on me, [but] that wasn’t the point,” Banks, around the 28-minute mark, said. “It was more so just about the tax break. I feel like the system’s the same on both sides, you know, no matter who you’re voting for. The American Dream, it rests on a systematically oppressed underclass . . . That’s just the name of the game, so either way you go, somebody’s getting fucked. Wouldn’t you wanna get a couple extra, like, 30 thousand dollars back on your tax return? You’re getting fucked either way.”

While Kanye was sharing Dragon Energy with Trump, she also had a few anti-trump words to say:

“No @kimkardashian Kanye is not ahead of his time. I said alllll of these things during the election. I had an actual reason for it. Never once did I call trump a good person or say he deserves ‘love’. Y’all are aggravating the black people at the expense of dragging their outrage into more clicks/streams etc for whatever Kanye is about to drop.”

“Outrage is internet engagement algorithm 101, y’all are not slick,” Banks continued. “Nothing at all profound, necessary or eloquent about anything your husband says. I wish you would make him read a book cover to cover before you send that black man into a world of white people with such base level theories as well as his very limited vernacular as pertaining to any of the pseudo-intellectual things he tries to say.”

“Kanye will never be the president and you will never ever be the First Lady. Give it up sis.”

But Prior to this, Banks was actually a proud supporter of Trump:

“First off, I would like to apologize to Donald Trump for all the stupid jokes I made. (I was kidding). secondly, I would like to apologize for all the other times I was dumb enough to let the liberal media sway my opinion of you. Thirdly I’m fucking proud as FUCK of you. One for being a gemini, two for being from NYC, three for winning the presidency and four for beating the media. The last part is your biggest victory in my eyes and I must say that I am TRULY inspired by this and feel deep amounts of vindication. Thanks for letting me know that I’m not crazy (even though I fronted a few times) liberals run hollywood and it’s been a COLD WORLD OUT HERE FOR ME AS A TRUMP SUPPORTER 😹. Best of luck on everything and thanks again. Sincerely – AB #TRUMP2017”

But don’t worry, true to her nature, she took those word back later:

“I made a major mistake endorsing toupey-toupee. Women’s rights are important and we must protect them. I tried … I reached … I even carried … I take it all back,” Banks wrote, adding that she “feels so dumb” and vows to “never mix music and politics ever again.” Oh, and also, she’s signing a record deal with RZA. 

Oh, but while women’s rights are important, she also wished gang rape on Sarah Palin.

Quick note: Majority of her outbreaks happen when she’s making music moves. Funny, considering she called Kanye out on his Publicity stunts. But moving along.

During this same year in May, Azealia admitted that she was racist while professing her support for Trump:

“So am I ! …. lol. Racism/Racialism is sewn into the fabric of our nation. It’s just who the f— we are,” she started, followed by “Trying to be all PC and pretending as if we aren’t racial/racist is not good for culture. Censorship is boring” and “Censorship is trash. Television and Movies are even boring now because of it. No one can say anything anymore.”

I’ll get to her homophobic tweets later (maybe, because this post is getting pretty damn long), but she apologized for being racist later. This was after she called Zayn from one direction a “Sand Niggxx”:

I don’t think anyone has issued more apologies than Azealia. She supposedly doesn’t care about anyone’s opinions yet an apology is always ready. Remember when she apologized to Nicki Minaj, Beyonce, and homosexuals? Because screenshots are forever.

Nicki Apology

Beyonce apology

Homosexual Apology

LGBTQ Apology

Remember that time she said she doesn’t apologize, then apologized, then came back and said she means what she says?

Now,  people are saying we can’t hold her accountable for the things she said in the past because it takes away from the message of colorism and media bias she was trying to make in her interview. But that’s not how that works. While people are fully capable of growth,  Banks has shown time and time again that her apologies are nothing more than damage control to save herself as she then repeats the same antics again.

Amara La Negra has been actively speaking about color bias in the industry and had Banks truly been down for the cause, she would have focused on that. Hell, before Amara we’ve been talking about it and we didn’t call anyone an illiterate rat in the process because we know that they are victims of circumstances they did not create. Attacking victims of the system does not aid in dismantling it. She continuously name-drops people because of her dislike for them. I expect she’ll be delivering an apology to Cardi sometime in the near future as per usual because “growth.”

And while we are trying to make her the voice of Black America, do you remember when she called a black woman a gorilla?

Nothing says black empowerment and unity like chitlin juice

And in some twisted work of irony, she was mad at Cardi B twerking while pregnant and in a later tweet she said her future kids “won’t go online and find pictures of her butthole,” as she plays on respectability politics, but Banks herself is online with her cooter out because she thought letting her pubic free was empowering. If hypocrisy had a face it would be Banks, and frankly, that’s why, whatever her message, I cannot support it.

Banks doesn’t care about the plight of black people, she cares about digging her way through whatever scandal she can to finally grasp some form of relevancy. Everything she does is for herself while you all try to paint her as some martyr for being outspoken. The girl is trash.

Azealia Banks is a proud, narcissistic contrarian with a hard-on for attacking women in a poorly thought out scheme to gain some shine, all the while using serious topics in her faux attempt to sound educated and “aware” when really she’s a backass twattle fuck masquerading as an intellectual.

And just like “fetch” I wish you all would stop trying to make her happen.

    You can’t spell Hypocrite without Azealia Banks I have a question. Why haven’t we canceled Azealia Banks yet? We have canceled many other celebrities for less and even questioned their mental stability but Bank’s flip-flopping ass seems to be allowed time and time again to be the face of the word “toxic” and “hypocrisy,” yet we just let her slide on through until her next episode.

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By 8.12pm on Sunday, Munroe Bergdorf is done in. It is a week since she was announced by L’Oréal as the face of True Match, a campaign that marries makeup to social justice, and three days since she was sacked unceremoniously. A BBC 2 producer is on the phone, talking to her about an interview with Victoria Derbyshire the next morning. “It has been the worst week of my life,” she tells him, trying to deflate the tension with a laugh. Prompted to explain why it has been so bad, she reels off “the death threats, threats of rape, threats of assault, people telling me to kill myself, the general bombardment and fear that something else will happen”. She pauses, then sighs. She hasn’t left her flat in days. “The most ridiculous thing is that you call out racism and they respond with more racism. It just doesn’t make any sense.”

Bergdorf, a 30-year-old, black, queer, trans woman who models and DJs, is no stranger to abuse and ridicule. Her very existence is subversive and threatening enough to the mainstream that a trickle of racist, homophobic and transphobic bile has become par for the course in her daily life on and offline – but now it has become a torrent.

As the Daily Mail reported it on Friday, “with a dizzying fanfare, she was brought in as the ‘face of modern diversity’. But days after she was announced as L’Oréal’s first transgender model, Munroe Bergdorf launched an extraordinary rant declaring all white people racist”. The story went viral, reported everywhere from Al-Jazeera to the New York Times.

“I’m trying to think of the best ways to get across what I actually said,” she tells me, over a picnic of French fries and apple Tango at her kitchen table.

Bergdof (left) DJing with Lina Bradford (centre) and Yasmine Petty in New York last November. Photograph: Drummond/BFA/Rex/Shutterstock

She explains that, the morning after the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, where an anti-racist protester was killed by a white supremacist, she wrote a Facebook post in response to that event. “It was an epic three-parter about how racism is a social structure and how, if this is the case, what can you do to combat racism?” She says the post was deleted by Facebook for breaching its terms on hate speech; the racist, transphobic comments made about Bergdorf, however, were left up. (A Facebook representative said: “We haven’t yet got to the bottom of what happened to Munroe’s post”, but “we are looking into it.”) The post was then filleted for its most incendiary lines: “Most of ya’ll don’t even realise or refuse to acknowledge that your existence, privilege and success as a race is built on the backs, blood and death of people of colour,” she wrote. “Your entire existence is drenched in racism. From micro-aggressions to terrorism, you built the blueprint for this shit. Come see me when you realise racism isn’t learned, it’s inherited and consciously or unconsciously passed down through privilege. Once white people begin to admit their race is the most violent and oppressive force of nature on Earth … then we can talk.”

Unsurprisingly, Bergdorf made some people uncomfortable, made some people cheer and pissed off many others, including her mother, who is white and reads the Daily Mail. “That was an awful conversation. I’m half-white. My mum thought I was lumping her in with everyone, but this isn’t about individuals. To understand my point, you have to take yourself out of the conversation – it’s not about you – and truly think about society, structurally, economically, as a whole.”

But isn’t that the trouble? Lots of people won’t and don’t understand. Not everyone reads Frantz Fanon and Patricia Hill Collins for kicks – academic theory will only go so far in convincing the average person on an average street that institutionalised, systemic racism is just as damaging as a violent, racist attack.

“I don’t regret what I said,” she says, calmly. “I’m an activist. Being an activist means calling people out, not just saying what everyone else is saying and what everyone else wants to think and upholding the common consensus. L’Oréal knew that when they hired me.”

Bergdorf on ITV’s Good Morning Britain with Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid. Photograph: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock

This isn’t provocation for provocation’s sake; Bergdorf knows there is no time to pussyfoot until everyone else catches up.

“I can wholeheartedly say that the dictionary definition of racism was written a very long time ago and not by a person of colour. It doesn’t allow us to have a conversation about modern-day racism. If you’re not aware of it, then make yourself aware of it. Racism isn’t just calling someone something, it’s a whole system. If you think we live in an equal society, you’re living in a daydream. You need to recognise that there is such a thing as white privilege and you can be homeless and still have white privilege, because you can still have a better chance of getting out of homelessness than a person of colour in the same position.”

Isn’t the problem that the language is outmoded? It’s hard to get people on board when “racist” is a loaded catch-all umbrella to describe everything from unconscious biases in the workplace to US neo-Nazis.

“We do have the language,” she says, “but it needs to be out there: unlearning, microaggressions, being complicit, unconscious bias, privilege – these need to be taught, we need to address why syllabuses only teach white history, we need to speak about slavery and the brutality of colonialism.”

Bergdorf’s speaking voice is an even-handed murmur; she pauses occasionally, apologising for what feel like rocks in her throat. Someone she knew from university, she says, sold the story to the Daily Mail and bragged about it.

She deliberately hasn’t seen friends or family since the story broke because “I need to deal with it without being told constantly ‘It’s going to be OK’, when who knows if it will be.” Her flatmate has been around and friends have rallied, but, for the most part, she has been managing alone, without an agent or a PR. She has four upcoming campaigns this year; three of her clients have yet to call her to confirm that is still the case. It is irrelevant, she says, because her principles will always come first.

“My body has always been political – the way people respond to my body has always been political, whether or not it was about gender or race,” she says. “I grew up in a white-majority area on the borders of Hertfordshire and Essex … but I’m mindful of my parents and giving too much away; they’re really worried.” She had a solidly middle-class upbringing, with one younger brother who is “straight and super woke and the first person I called”. Her dad is Jamaican and her mum is white English. “Dad was tough on me growing up as a very effeminate boy, but we’re very close now. Mum is feisty and super successful, heading up PR for a financial company.”

‘Dad was tough on me growing up as a very effeminate boy, but we’re very close now’ … Munroe Bergdorf. Photograph: Teri Pengilley for the Guardian

Bergdorf was horribly bullied at her all-boys school and beaten up. She says the loneliness she felt through her teenage years was intense. “I lived in my own head and in make-believe. I was obsessed with Cyndi Lauper – I still am. She gave me a lot of strength: that quote ‘On my darkest days I wear my brightest clothes’ is still true for me.” We laugh – today she is wearing sombre, black tights and a grey marl top; understandably, she is not ready for dressing up. “The mornings have been the worst, as my anxiety has been super high and it’s difficult to get up.” She shows me pages of abusive social media screenshots. “I didn’t get out of bed till 1pm today.” Isn’t it a form of self-harm, to put herself through it? “No, I need to know what’s going on so I can feel in control. And I’m resilient: I worked hard at it.”

Bergdorf studied English at the University of Brighton. “I guess I was genderqueer, but there weren’t really the words to express my identity – I just started wearing makeup and heels.” A three-year career in fashion PR followed university before she “crashed and burned”. When she decided to transition at 24, she also learned how to DJ so “I could be myself, self-care and make money. Needing that time and space to yourself is why a lot of trans girls fall into sex work, because the process is expensive and the money is reliable”. She sighs. “Trans women of colour are being killed at an alarming rate.” When she was transitioning, she says the average life expectancy for a trans woman like her was 30. “At the time, I thought: ‘That’s only a few years. I should be speaking about this.’”

Bergdorf was raped during the period she was transitioning; she reported it to the police, but the attacker was never found. She took even more strongly to activism. “It wasn’t just standing up for rights that were my own,” she explains. “Islamophobia, antisemitism, anything I saw that I didn’t think was right, I would protest or post. I think that’s the stance everyone should take: if white people protested and worked to dismantle racism … I would have loved to have seen the reaction around Brexit from liberals with racism. If people rallied around issues that don’t affect them as well ones that do, we’d be getting shit done.”

Bergdorf built an audience – and influence – within the LGBT community, partially through DJing. “It was the best investment. I was 25, got loads of gigs and it felt like it was what I was always meant to do. I had a lot of fun. I was a complete wild child and went off the rails and did all that rock star shit.”

Despite cabin fever, and stressful breaks to deal with her buzzing phone, Bergdorf is warm, smart and charming; on meeting her, you can understand how she has made the connections that have built her career. A shoot for a couture Lebanese Muslim collection was her first modelling gig; campaigns with Illamasqua and Boy London followed.

She was shopping on Thursday afternoon when L’Oréal called her about the story the Daily Mail said it was going to publish. “I kept explaining the context and the full post and they wouldn’t listen. They said not to go out and not to talk to anyone.” In a statement, L’Oréal said, without irony, that it “supports diversity and tolerance towards all people irrespective of their race, background, gender and religion … we are proud of the diversity of the ambassadors who represent this campaign. We believe that the recent comments by … Munroe Bergdorf are at odds with those values and as such we have taken the decision to end the partnership with her.”

L’Oréal’s key ambassador, Cheryl Cole, was found guilty of assault for beating up a black nightclub toilet attendant, but evidently that doesn’t conflict with the company’s policies. (Cole was cleared of racially aggravated assault.) Clara Amfo, a Radio 1 DJ and a L’Oréal True Match ambassador, quit the campaign in solidarity with Bergdorf, partially in protest at the hypocrisy of the situation.

“It puzzles me that my views are considered out of touch and extreme,” says Bergdorf. But it is an argument from which she can’t run. “I said no three times to Good Morning Britain,” she says. “But then I thought: ‘This is what you’re meant to be doing and this is a conversation that needs to be had. A lot of people are relying on you.” On Monday morning, her conversation with Piers Morgan goes as we discussed it would the evening before: Morgan asks if he is racist, says he is offended at being considered racist or sexist and shuts down Bergdorf. “The split between support and hatred has been about 50/50,” she says later that day. “On the one hand, it’s amazing, but it is horrible and awful to think that people hate me.”

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I had an experience with hateful comments online And I wanted to share it with you

A couple of weeks ago, I received a comment from a guy who thought he had any right to tell me how to act, be and express myself. I've had an amazing two years of NOT crying myself to sleep Because of my self hatred. and then I read his message. It made me feel like shit. He doesn't know me. And that's why I hate that his comment hurt me so much. He added me on Facebook back in October, I accepted cuz we went to the same high school, and I remember how sweet he always was. He insulted me, because I didn't agree with him. I'm open about my intersectional feminist ideals. I post a lot about the current strike in the University Of Puerto Rico, and I share and criticize memes that are transphobic, homophobic and racists. I RANT A LOT. Come at me, i don't care. Unfollow me. Anyways. He came into my Facebook status, commented about how I used a word that he thought was wrong. I told him that it wasn't wrong and explain why I used the word (it wasn't a slur or anything, it was the adjetive "undue" in Spanish.) The status basically said "The undue acts —referring to a guy that spit water on a confrontational professor— of an individual in a protest, does not invalidate the goals of the whole." He said that "undue" was too sweet, that it was worst than that. I told him that until there is actual blood, or physical attacks it's only inappropriate and the word undue was perfectly fine. Specially when the professor wasn't exactly a saint. He choke a student in 2010 in another protest. He then proceeded to make a comment about my mother. Saying that he wish she was the one who got spit on, and disrespected. I saw red. I had to breath in and out... I proceeded to explain that the guy wasn't even part of the protest officially, I explain the violent history of the professor, I explain the reasons for the strike, the reasons why the professor should be actually striking with the protesters, and i told this dude that it was incredibly disrespectful and out of place to mention my mother to validate his arguments. And next time he wanted to mention my mother, he should think about how it would feel to hear someone use his mother in an argument she's not part of. I had tagged a friend in my original status, and she proceeded to tell him: "This is between adults, and you should not be bringing up family members. Keep your arguments straight!" He then proceeded to write a three paragraph response. He said, that I was selfish, couldn't deal with criticism, I was vulgar, my head was full of rebel student naivety, I acted like a little girl, I'm not capable of putting myself in anyone else's shoes... he said, and this is the part that made me laugh, "I've had to suffer three months of you screaming and posting about things and putting your opinion. And god have mercy on anyone who dares disagree with you. You will eat them alive. You did that to my friend yesterday and then deleted them!" He called me immature for deleting said friend. That person I deleted is someone I haven't talked to or seen in years, someone who posts things that aren't interesting to me, someone who decided that in a post where I was clearly angry, come and tell me to calm down not in one comment, but a couple of comments. I kept getting notifications from the post because that person kept commenting for me to calm down in different ways. So I deleted them... from my PERSONAL account, after responding. I wasn't sweet I know this, i wasn't nice, but I'm human. Anyways the other dude kept saying that I was nasty, blah blah. I responded with: "Thank you comrade, I'm not interested to be liked by anyone, I don't need to be liked. It's so sad that you had to suffer for three months. I didn't know I put a gun to your head and made you add me on Facebook, keep following my posts on Facebook, and kept reading them. I'm clear with what I believe in, my ideals, my reality. I don't need to explain my character an personality to you, because this post isn't about that. You questioned the used of a word, I answered with my reasoning behind the used of said word. You mentioned my mother, out of context. I proceeded to tell you that it was inappropriate to do so. And now you refused to acknowledge my argument and refused to admit that the comment about my mother was out of place. So really, of SOMEONE came and talked shit about me to you, and now you are avenging them, that's really none of my business." I have the receipts of all of this. Screenshots and stuff. I deleted the comment thread after an hour because my original status was what I wanted everyone's focus to be on. These screenshots are all in Spanish. I've translated the best I could. Anyways, after that I was a mess. I was sporadically crying for the whole night and the next day. I spent that weekend in a bit of a numb state. I new he didn't know me at all. He has never talked to me in person. But I took everything he said to heart. And I HATE that. I should not let ONE person dictate how I see myself. I think what made it worst is that my best friend kinda took his side.... and well... it's like she validated his insults. After telling my closest friends, and all of them saying that I didn't say or do anything deserving of those insults... I got better. I regain confident. Of course I waited until he saw my last reply and deleted him from my account, I don't need someone like that in my life. Anyways, I'm just wondering why is it that we take BAD comments as true, but good comments as lies? Why? I of course am still super open about my ideals and I keep posting and ranting about everything. But what Ive learn is to be more careful in the way I express myself. I had a talk with my best friend and she explain that she didn't agree with him, she just wanted me to take a step back when posting and talking to people and phrase myself better. I mean, this annoys me a bit, cuz I'm impulsive and frank in a "I usually don't have a filter" kind of way. But I've learned that my sincerity is sometimes badly phrased. (Although, everyone that read the thread told me that I wasn't being disrespectful! So in that one I won! Hahaha) Anywayssss, I'm done with this now. I needed to let it all out. Bye.

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