If you tell me “x person you reblogged from is a huge bigot” and I say I’m sorry and delete it and then some time later you see me reblog something else with them in it, I promise it’s not because I don’t care or disregarded you. I have a terrible memory for names and I trend towards skimming the things I read and I miss a lot of information.
So please know I’m sorry and it’s not on purpose and I do care.
I hate to say it but this sounds like every domestic abuser I’ve ever seen on TV. I’m sorry, baby. You know I don’t mean it, won’t happen again…
….what? Like…actually….the fuck? Like I’m just curious about how you typed that out, looked at it and then went “yep, that seems like a good idea, I’m going to press a button and send this out into the world”?
My memory is so bad that it takes me a month of seeing someone for several hours a day every day for me to reliably recognize them and remember their name.
I see hundreds of unique screen names every week. I don’t remember them all. 6 months of pangur and grim crossing my dash daily had me recognizing the cats and their owner. 6 months of gam. 6 months for the people I chose to follow and see posts from every day.
So @bdub86 maybe rethink what you wrote keeping it in context of the format of this hellsite and that there are indeed people like myself in the bottom 5% with regards to memory recall.
Also reblogging from someone who is a bigot is nowhere near the same thing as supporting an abuser because you’re not supporting their ideas you’re literally choosing to reblog a picture of a cat and guess what a bad person and a good person can like the same picture of a cat and it doesn;t mean the good person is evil for liking that cat.
This is a platform of media and the bullshit that constantly floods your dash floods it in a stream. Unless you reblog a hateful post that literally agrees with the person’s awful ideals then it’s just random crap you’re seeing and spreading and 90% of it has no meaning other than eliciting a random chuckle or signifying an amalgamation of random stuff you find pleasing.
You can’t make each person solely responsible for going to each blog they reblog something from and making sure the person isn’t an ass; that’s not how it works.
Just because you reblog some random or goofy shit from a person who is a hellbeast doesn’t mean YOU are a hellbeast it means you saw something goofy or entertaining and reblogged it. That was the whole thought process.
You don’t sit there being like “ah yes this person 6 months ago told me this blog is full of hate and thus reblogging anything from it must surely mean I am in agreement with their awful rhetoric! I shall now go forth and spread such rhetoric in the form of a dumb shitpost!”
That’s just silly. It’s social media…. reblogging from an asshole isn’t the best thing to do but again it goes through your dash like water you can’t sift everything so stop trying to police everyone and just chill.
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