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When we ignore ongoing harassment and abuse, when we belittle efforts to create harassment policies, when we respond to people speaking out about their own abuse and harassment by accusing them of starting “lynch mobs” and “witch hunts,” we’re teaching predators that fandom is a safe hunting ground. We’re teaching them that they will be protected, and their victims will be sacrificed so we can cling to an illusion of inclusiveness.
Rape, Abuse, and Marion Zimmer Bradley
jimchines.com
Ist es ein Zufall, dass die, denen Verschwörungstheoretiker an die Macht verhelfen wollen, am Ende für die Kohle-, Gas-, Öl- und Waffenlobby einstehen, wenn sie denn an die Macht kommen.
Ein Kurzer Zwischenruf Gegen Das Angeblich So Positive Engagement Der Verschwörungstheoretiker
Olaf Simons
‘The twentieth century began with utopia and ended with nostalgia. The twenty-first century is not characterized by the search for newness, but by the proliferation of nostalgias,’ wrote the Russian-American philologist Svetlana Boym, who saw nostalgia as a way of escaping the strictures of rationally ordered time. She contrasted two types. One, which is healthy, she called ‘reflective’ nostalgia: it looks at individual, often ironic stories from the past, tries to tease out the difference between the past and present to formulate the future. The other, harmful type she called ‘restorative’ nostalgia. This strives to rebuild lost homelands with ‘paranoiac determination’, thinks of itself as ‘truth and tradition’, obsesses over grand symbols and ‘relinquish[es] critical thinking for emotional bonding … Unreflective nostalgia can breed monsters.’
This Is Not Propaganda
Peter Pomerantsev
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