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[–]Jinera 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Okay once. At the time I was 13 (so this is almost 8 years ago) i was really depressed and overall in an extremely bad state of mind. I already knew and accepted I was a lesbian and had just started using instagram. There I found plenty of LGBT and feminism pages that I thought were very interesting.

Skip a few months, at this point I had been properly brainwashed into believing everything woke insta was saying.

A really popular LGBT page made a post saying:

"A gay person shouldnt be hated for their sexuality but if they are a bad person you can still dislike the individual.

A trans person shouldnt be hated for their gendee but if they are a bad person you can still dislike the individual.

A muslim shouldnt be hated for their religion but if they are a bad person you can still dislike the individual.

A black person shouldnt be hated for their race but if they are a bad person you can still dislike the individual."

Anyway, for some reason people went OFF on this. I swear it had nearly a 1000 comments of people being sooo mad. They were claiming the page was so RACIST, for making it seem like "all black people are bad!!"

Thinking I wouldnt be noticed in the sea of comments commented:

"I dont think you can be racist to white people!!! However, a person can be a dick regardless of their race/sexuality/gender, and that is enough for anyone to decide to dislike that individual."

Apparently the account owner of this 100k+ account saw my comment, and agreed with it soooo much that they screenshotted it and posted my comment on their account saying: "this is what I meant!"

They did not blur out my insta name. Somehow the commenters were incapable of reading the first line and just went idiotoc on me. Claiming I said reverse racism exists, claiming I was racist. Then I got DM's telling me to kill myself, to cut myself, that I was the ugliest white pasty girl they had ever seen

I had not responded to anything anymore bc I was overwhelmed as fuck. Anyway, that evening so many people told me to hurt myself and kill myself over that one comments that I relapsed in self harming and was a crying mess all week. The worst thing was that I despite me, and all my (poc) friends didnt see anything wrong with my comment, I talked myself into having to be a racist because why else would woke insta go off on a 13 year old??

Ever since then I've always been really apprehensive of these feminists/equalists/activists (as that were what these people called themselves) and I had to actually get exposure therapy to work on "learning how to express your opinions without fear". I am still not completely over that fear and whenever I say something controversial I usually cant sleep at night because I am so scared people will threaten me again.

Sorry that was way too long.