People Seem To Always Need To Attribute Evil To Something Immutably Wrong With A Person Or At Least To

People seem to always need to attribute evil to something immutably wrong with a person or at least to some powerful force within said person that can't be just a choice (no matter how influenced by the coercive forces of society and one's own history).

The widely spread Christian notion that people act in what society currently thought of as evil was that people were sinners or possessed by an evil spirit.

Now that spiritual explanations for evil are mostly not socially sanctioned outside of circles of people that accept such explanations, we've gone from attributing evil to spiritual pollution, to attributing evil to psychiatric pollution.

19th and most of the 20th century's hysteria, the psychopath of the later 20th century, the sociopath of the 00s, and now it's the narcissist.

Have you considered that, sometimes, people choose to do fucked up shit just because it's easier, or the results satisfy them better? They're not Possessed by the indomitable spirit of a disorder. Sometimes people choose to cause harm the same way anyone would choose between flavors of a drink due to no pathology and nothing INTRINSICALLY wrong with them.

Sometimes, people are just assholes, and when you see millions of people claiming their ex was afflicted with a pathology, it starts to seem like rather than a pathology those exes are participating in harmful but socially permitted and even encouraged behaviors, especially if they play right into the rulebooks of patriarchal relations. That's not pathology, that's normalized evil, systemic evil.

Men lowering the self-esteem of their girlfriends when they feel emasculated and treating them like shit behind closed doors, even tangibly violently, is awful and deeply traumatizing, I know by experience from the two relationships with men I got to have before accepting my lesbianism. But that's not a disorder, that's just... What our misogynistic, patriarchal culture teaches men and tells men is ok to do in order to reaffirm their control over their women, it's what the people around those men have historically allowed them to get away with.

Same with abusive parents with their children; much like women under patriarchy, children are seen as possessions belonging to their parents and extensions of their parents, even into adulthood. A parent doesn't need to meet the clinical criteria of NPD in order to horrendously traumatize their child and then feel that they were in their right to do so. Society already tells parents all the time that they're allowed to horrendously traumatize their children while still expecting loyalty and deference from them.

I'm antipsych but I'm not here to discuss the validity of personality disorder diagnoses. I'm actually ceding ground here and for the sake of this conversation just briefly accepting that framework of understanding of trauma survivors.

Ceding that ground; please stop calling every horrible person a narcissist, a sociopath, a psychopath, and so on. Evil doesn't lie in some intrinsic Brain Wired Wrong condition, that's such an apocalyptic and stigmatizing view of humanity, one that absolves many of the people who cause the kind of harm being addressed here. Evil and harm are choices.

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Abdullah Haniyah's fundraiser has moved very slowly as of late. I must remind you all that he already has 4 children and that his wife is dealing with post-partum while in recovery from childbirth, his newborn is at risk of infection!!

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1 year ago

‘israel is targeting hamas’

Israeli jets have targeted the family of the head of surgery in the Indonesian Hospital, Mohammad Al Rann, killing them all.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent Wael Dahdouh’s wife, son, daughter and infant grandson killed.

Israeli warplanes have killed journalist Dua' Sharf and her child in a strike on her house in Gaza.

While she was working, doctor Sana'a Nour was informed that an Israeli airstrike killed her brother.

A Residential block is completely destroyed after being heavily bombed by Israeli warplanes in Khan Younis, southern Gaza.

A mother lost her 6 children by an Israeli air strike that bombed Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza.

Palestinian elderly woman stuck amidst the rubble of her house bombed by lsraeli warplanes.

"We were a family of eight, four of us were killed and the other four were injured."

this was not over days, or weeks. this was all within 24 hours.

1 year ago

Boycott Disney. Boycott McDonald's. Boycott Starbucks. "Oh but it won't work, it won't do anything" Yes it will. Boycotts have worked before and they will again. Think of the Montgomery bus boycotts. Think about American women boycotting imported British goods during the revolution.

Why do you think popular media is so quick to discount boycotts as ineffective? Could it possibly be because they work? Could it be because major corporations understand that they work and are scared? Could it be because boycotts have historically been utilized by marginalized groups to assert their views and fight for change within a conflict in which they have no power?

Do not have give in to the apathetic nihilism of "nothing I do matters, so why bother?" That is exactly what oppressors count on. Be critical of the media you consume. Ask questions. Look to history. Boycott.

2 years ago

how did you add those links w/ one or two words to your bio? :)

they're html links! just go to your tumblr page and click customise in the top right corner, and add this code to your description:

How Did You Add Those Links W/ One Or Two Words To Your Bio? :)

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1 year ago
More Magical Girls!!! (2/2) 🔥🌺 🌬️
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2 months ago
This Animation Was Inspired By A Little Zine I Sketched Out. I Liked It So Much, That I Decided To Turn

This animation was inspired by a little zine I sketched out. I liked it so much, that I decided to turn it into a pixel art animation!

For my dear friend in G/\za 🍓. No matter what happens to her or myself, I am forever grateful to be under the same stars as her, all these miles and oceans apart. Besan's GFM link @bisanalbalawi18

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Star Scene Image Description: An animated pixel art of a simple star drawn with a thick black outline. The star's face has two arches that curve down into black oval eyes with small light shines, looking to the right.

Around the star is a dark purple pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same STARS".

The placement of the words are: above the star: "we are under", on the left: "the", and on the right: "same", and below in all caps: "STARS"

The background is a solid white color, detailed with light purple diamond-shaped stars and small flecks representing twinkling stars. The details are also animating in the background. END ID

Moon Scene Image Description: An animated pixel art of a simple moon drawn with a thick black outline. The moon's face has one arch that curves down into a single black oval eye with a small light shine, looking to the left. The moon is drawn in a waning crescent shape, with dashed lines connecting the moon's points to make a circular shape.

Around the moon is a dark blue pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same MOON"

The placement of the words are: above the moon: "we are under", inside the dashed lined circular section: "the same", and below in all caps: "MOON"

The background is a solid white color, detailed with light blue swirls and diamond-shaped stars and small dots. The details are also animating in the background. END ID

Cloud Scene Image Description: An animated pixel art of a simple fluffy cloud drawn with a thick black outline. The cloud's face has two arches that curve down into black oval eyes with small light shines, looking to the right.

Around the moon is a dark green pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same CLOUDS"

The placement of the words are: on the right with each word below the next: "we are under the same" and below in all caps: "CLOUDS"

The background is a solid white color, detailed with light green clouds and wide "M" arching lines drawn for four birds. The details are also animating in the background. END ID

Sun Scene Image Description: An animated pixel art of a circular sun drawn with a thick black outline. The sunrays are drawn connected together in each arching U-shaped point. The sun's face has two arches that curve down into black oval eyes with small light shines, looking up.

Around the sun is a dark yellow pixel font in lowercase words that reads: "we are under the same SUN" The placement of the words are around the sun from the the bottom left, curving around the sun, back down to the bottom right.

The background is a solid white color, detailed with light yellow squiggly-wavy lines representing sun rays. The details are also animating in the background. END ID

How Wonderful - Note Scene Image Description: A four-lined, pixel art sentence in black color that reads: "how wonderful we are to be under the same stars!" The layout for the sentence is: "how wonderful", "we are", "to be under", "the same stars!"

Animating below each word is a dark blue looping line, where each loop connects with the additional line underneath the next word.

The background is a solid white color. END ID

Outro Scene Image Description: A pixel art of the words "by" in black, with the artist's name "bloomzeye" in a purple pixel art font style, with three small hearts inside the center of the "b" and "o"s. Each heart animates within three frames to change colors from purple: blue in the "b", pink in the first "o", and yellow in the second "o". The background is a solid white color. END ID

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1 year ago
It's Hard Work Being Ur Own Ocs #1 Fan, But It's Honest Work. (some Kaz Fits For Fun)

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1 year ago

"ok but where would Israeli Jewish ppl go" Palestinians have already created a plan for unity, YOU'RE just horny for this idea of brown "savages" getting revenge. White people did this with indigenous peoples, with freed enslaved people, with apartheid SA...also, if your main concern is the settlers/oppressors while the oppressed people can't even recover their dead to count them... (Insert something that'll have me put on a list)


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1 year ago
It’s That Time Again Folks….i Need Some Help

it’s that time again folks….i need some help

worked myself rly hard and i made enough for rent this month! but by prioritizing my legal case for staying in this house, i lost my SNAP benefits so i have nothing to buy food with until they process my appeal. i would like help buying food, covering my utilities and hopefully drs appts i really need.

help a black trans and very disabled person stay afloat if you can afford it!

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