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F!S Anon Meme (the ??th)

Secrets, rants, opinions, anything you want to say about your fandom or a fandom or fandom in general, do it here! Anonymously, of course. Get it all off your chest.

Some ground rules:
1. Going anon is encouraged but not absolutely required (for those who struggle with recaptchas and stuff).
2. No autoplaying/autolooping embeds, or embeds that cover/stretch the screen.
3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

That's about it, though!

(Today's post is below.)

Comments

Re: Fandom and Politics

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, it definitely exists. Not everyone thinks that way but a lot of people act that way. It's just the way that politics / culture / culturepolitics works these (esp in America and esp on the Internet). It's unlikely that it's going to change anytime soon when it's (unfortunately) so engrained in the way we talk about shit and the way we interact with the world.

On this view politics is a matter of identifying with some larger cultural group - your political views is understood and expressed as a matter of the kind of person you are and you want to be (and all of these categories are pretty much categories from American culture more broadly - they're not primarily political categories, they're cultural, social, economic). And usually that identification is an identification AGAINST some other group which wants to destroy your group or is at least inimical to it, either passively or more or less actively.

So you have the twin imperatives of reaching for in-group belonging and reacting against out-group threat and you get to this logic where disagreement is impossible without being a bad person and it sucks but it's probably not going to change as long as culture works the way it does.

Re: Fandom and Politics

[(Anonymous)]

This is a good explanation.

Re: Fandom and Politics

[(Anonymous)]

No it's not, it's pop psychology bullshit without anything to back it.

Re: Fandom and Politics

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have an alternate explanation that makes more sense, or just "no it's not"?