|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:30 pm
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/posts/say/say_b1_p.gif) |
I'm sure you've all heard about the recent events on LiveJournal. If you haven't, here's a basic rundown of what happened:
On May 29th, LiveJournal deleted around five hundred accounts and communities, a good majority of these fandom communities and writers/readers of fanfiction. Some of the communities also deleted were incest/rape survivor groups and a discussion group for the book Lolita.
The reason? Due to their interests, LiveJournal deleted them. Their interests may have been "rape", "incest", "shota," et cetera.
People began to look into the event and it was revealed that a vigilante group called Warriors for Innocence was behind it. Warriors for Innocence aims to get rid of "*****" to "protect the children." They called anyone who opposed them a ***** as well.
"In other words, with the "Warriors for Innocence" scandal, we may actually be dealing with part of a fairly extensive network of neo-Confederate, militia-sympathiser (if not flat out militia-member) "Christian Patriot" God-warriors-with-guns "Joel's Army" nutcases on our hand...one that potentially makes Focus on the Family or even the American Family Association look like the friggin' Society of Friends in comparison."
Link to the post.
A lot of people are calling Strikethrough '07 "Internet drama" and after reading rant after rant after rant I'm beginning to get tired of hearing about it. However, this has kind of opened my eyes.
If Strikethrough '07 -- the deletion by LiveJournal of five hundred journals and communities -- was the result of dominionists, imagine what would happen if dominionism influenced the United States or the world. Imagine what would happen to us, the atheists / agnostics.
Am I the only one who is frightened about this?
And sorry if this kind of post doesn't belong here. Just tell me, and I'll delete it. :')
|
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
|
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/template/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/template/s.gif) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 4:12 pm
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
Though I have never used LiveJournal at all or, frankly, heard a word about this event until now, I have sadly run into a number of these "dominionists" you're talking about.
Dominionism appears to be an intrinsic part of human nature; I imagine something like that would stem from territorial behavior, a primitive impulse present in all of us. Of course, as Tears for Fears tells us, everybody wants to rule the world; it's just a matter of how much and what part.
Among the worst offenders are the ones who immediately dismiss certain ideas and push entirely subjective agendas, refusing to look beyond the possibly deceiving first impressions of their competitors. These are the people who claim the moral high ground by default and carry out these nonconstructive campaigns in the name of "protection" or "justice," when all they're really doing is propagating sensationalism and drawing unnecessary attention to what they want erased.
Now, I don't mind healthy opposition to certain ideas. Actually, nowadays, there are lots of things that should be opposed. But I really wish some people would sit down and actually figure out what they're fighting against before they start blowing the war trumpets.
I imagine most of these bigots eat at Burger King, just so they can always "have it their way."
|
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/posts/say/say_b3_p.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/s.gif) |
|
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/template/s.gif) |
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/template/s.gif) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 11:46 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:14 am
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 1:57 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 5:07 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 7:21 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:05 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:14 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 7:29 pm
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2007 9:26 pm
|
|
|
|
|
![](//graphics.gaiaonline.com/images/template/s.gif) |
|
|
|
|
|