Let’s Play a Game!
Who said it: A tumblr “anti-shipper”, or a conservative, Republican, Christian extremist?
“By writing fanfiction and drawing fan art of ____, you are condoning it in society.”
“You are actively condoning ____.
If you encourage ____ by writing fan fiction that depicts that, then that encourages ____philes to take action.”
“You can whine all you want, but do you people realize that
CHILDREN were viewing these blogs, and were being influenced by immoral
behaviours?”
“What is so [toxic] about promoting morality?
Don’t you have any sense of shame?“
“I’m simply trying to make the world a better place.”
“I know that ____ and ____ are not technically siblings.
But they view each other as that, and thus to support them together is [incest].”TIME’S UP!
These quotes all came from a former member of Warriors for Innocence–a conservative, Republican, “religious right” extremist group that openly advocated for dominionism.
Bonus: Antis also seem to have the same view of fiction as
Vladimir Putin and his United Russia Party.
If you’re still an anti-shipper, and you’re not embarrassed about it yet, you probably should be. You have literally become the new “soccer moms”, spewing the EXACT same outdated, easily-debunked arguments that have been used for decades by right-wing extremists and religious zealots. Good job, Helen.
I honestly never thought I would live long enough to see teenagers turn into the same people that teenagers have always despised, nor see people claiming to be “progressive” using the same rhetoric as some crusty old bigoted bible-thumper.
Fun fact! Warriors for Innocence were the chuckle fucks behind Livejournal’s Strikethrough ‘07. You know that big thing that kinda crippled fandom and helped give birth, iirc, to AO3 and such? They’re basically proto-antis. Terrifying how history repeats, even fandom history.
@lordhellebore CALLED IT
I’ve reblogged this before, but yep. I was there on LJ in 2007, and this is what happened and how they argued. There’s no difference in the arguments of religious fundies and antis, other than what they claim as motivation (Christianity / social justice). It’s also highly ironic, because Christianity and social justice are both supposed to care about marginalised people – in the real world. Instead these people are focusing on harassing people (a lot of them marginalised) over their tastes in fiction.
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