[ SECRET POST #6153 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6153 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


All secrets today have spoiler/content warnings attached.



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01. [SPOILERS for Slay the Princess]




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02. [SPOILERS for Pact]




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03. [SPOILERS for Final Fantasy 16]




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04. [SPOILERS for Our Flag Means Death]




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05. [WARNING for discussion of violence, transphobia, abuse, child abuse; Ezra Miller]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of RL war/genocide/etc]



























Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #879.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

If the person is fictional, yes, often. Real people not so much, at least not in this case. I don't know about every identity group, but I don't know anyone in my parts of the NB or wider LGBTQ community who doesn't think Ezra Miller is a horrible person.

[(Anonymous)]

I may not know anyone who thinks Ezra Miller is fantastic, but I know far too many people who made excuses for the supposedly genderqueer guy in Virginia that raped two of his classmates. People who had before said, "consent can be withdrawn at any time" and had shared the, "sex is like tea" meme were suddenly spouting, "she had sex with him before, so was it really rape this time?" They were overjoyed when Merrick Garland was sent to investigate her father for terrorism (he lost his shit at a school board meeting, because they were trying to cover up what had happened).

There's a case out at Berkeley right now. Latina professor (who in all likelihood is mentally ill, and needs help) stalked a colleague, and was suspended for it. The students are going on a hunger strike because they believe she's been wrongly suspended. Not because they think she didn't do the stalking, no; but because, since she's Latina, they think it's understandable for her to stalk people.

[(Anonymous)]

In the case of the Latina professor, it sounds like you're missing a lot of nuance. Was she suspended because she was a stalker, or because she was a Latina stalker? Would a white stalker have been suspended? Have white people stalked people at Berkeley before and gotten less harsh of a punishment? In many cases, a minority's crimes being punished are just an excuse to punish a minority and it's clear because privileged groups go unpunished for the same crimes.

[(Anonymous)]

No, none of that applies in this case, and the students' position is not that a white stalker would have gone unpunished, but that because she is Latina, it is understandable that she'd stalk someone.

Should people who are minorities be allowed to commit crimes in order to redress prior wrongs?

[(Anonymous)]

But... then the argument there should be that the white colleagues should be punished as well and not that she should get off wtf?