Getting rid of nazis on your blog

chocolatecoquito:

raenboow:

chocolatecoquito:

raenboow:

queeranarchism:

Hey, if you’re sick of nazis on your Tumblr but you keep on having to block new ones, Tumblr’s most recent experimental feature can probably really help you out. It’s called Reblog Graphs and you can test it here. 

Basically, what it does is show you a network of how your post was reblogged and who were big influencers in getting lots of reblogs. That’s useful in general but extra usefull if you want to know who to block to get rid of shit on your dash. 

For example, this post that I wrote got a lot of notes and when I use Reblog Graphs is generates this graph:

I’m the yellow dot and all the other dots are reblogs, the bigger the dot, the most reblogs originated from that reblog. Next, I can click on the dots and see who they are and what content they added. For example:

When @thatdiabolicalfeminist reblogged my post the result was a lot of supportive reblogs, helpful feedback and conversations that I want to have. 

But check out the other cluster: 

When wogbeginatcalais reblogged my post the result was a stream of hateful comments by white supremacist, nazi blogs and nazi trolls. Not stuff I want and one reblog started all of it. 

I had blocked a lot of white supremacist blogs when the hate started, but according to Reblog Graph I missed out on quite a lot of the most important blogs that were causing my post to be noticed by these shits in the first place. By blocking key nazi dots in this chain, I can now more effectively stop nazi shits from finding my posts. Good to know!

That’s all. Happy Tumblring. 

I get why people want this… and it may help more in the long run than I suspect it will…. but it feels dangerous.

I feel like this may shut people off into their own safespace bubble even further. Both the nazis and people like you. And even though it feels nice never having to engage with people that disagree with you or people who give you hard times – you may loose opportunities to grow as a person, get your beliefs challenged and realize further why some things are bad/good/undefined. Even though the other person may be wrong (and if the other person really is a nazi then they sure are in that belief, but still…) 

I mean this with all the love for my fellow man-

Shut the fuck up.

Can it be a way to create an echo chamber? Sure. Is it an incredibly effective way to stop literal bigots from shit talking you and Throwing slurs at you? You betcha! And considering how shit tumblr is at getting rid of hateful ppl, this is as good a skill as any.

Do you not wish to have the chance for a discussion and possibly changing the minds of these hateful people?

Is it not worth the discomfort of someone telling you to “Shut the fuck up” to make you and others change their bad ways?

I have no desire to change nazi minds tbh. Not my job. What i do enjoy is not being called everything but a child of god on the internet by fuckwits who think im literally subhuman.

Yeah, the idea that I need to let anyone into my blog space to ‘have my ideas challenged’ is bullshit. I am not gonna learn from literal nazis, they are very unlikely to look at my blog and suddenly reject nazism for queer anarchism. People don’t make learning jumps that big. So there is nothing I get from nazis bit hate and abuse.

It may seem very obvious but: when someone changes my mind, it is generally because I notice them changing the world for the better and take an interest in the ideas that drive them. Curiously I find more wonderful ideas that way than by listening to nazis calling me a commie cunt and telling me I should be raped to death.

And frankly, the mainstream media is constantly giving a platform to nazis as well as capitalist neo liberal shits, MRAs etc etc. I am already ‘exposed’ to their ideas constantly. I uses spaces like Tumblr to find the kind of different opinions that I want to find. That’s not an echo chamber, it’s a tunnel out of the toxic echo chamber of mainstream media.