this is the kind of person who tells you you’re not a real materialist if you don’t agree with every single one of their random gut-feeling opinions
you’re not allowed to make communist analysis or use materialism to understand social problems under capitalism you have to follow everything the sacred texts say, including marx’s correspondence where he says homophobic insults or the parts where he thought in the like 1850s that colonialism would proletarianize india and be good for it. if you break away from the sacred texts the /leftypol/ gang shows up to your blog and starts shrieking about liberalism and identity politics
No no you’re only allowed to use the parts *I* like which adhere to my narrow dogma. The stuff Marx never really said. Ignore the other stuff he did actually say. Also, Marx, Engels, Lenin, and Stalin were queer POC. This is called materialism
You’re fucking ridiculous if you think tumblr’s porn/nudity ban actually has to do with child pornography. Literally every other site can effectively moderate this issue and tumblr has been actively closing in further on their anti-NSFW move. Many sex workers and NSFW artists were removed starting last month after the iOS app was removed from the App Store. Look at FOSTA/SESTA, look at the moves throughout the year to push sex workers and NSFW artists away, look at the way Patreon, Paypal, Craigslist, credit card companies, etc. have over-policed this issue and forced sex workers away. This is all so obvious.
Also, explicitly banning and calling out “female-presenting nipples” - note there’s an exception if it’s after giving birth or during breastfeeding because OBVIOUSLY the only way breasts and nipples are okay is when you’re fulfilling your goddamn job of being an incubator and not just posting nipples wilfully or for (gasp) money. Because obviously, when we’re talking about the banning of child pornopraphy we must target “female-presenting nipples” and let everyone know that those are the real problem. Nipples are only okay when they’re “male-presenting” and in the proximity of a newborn that is confirmed yours.
Like c’mon… FOSTA/SESTA has been presented under the guise of fighting human trafficking just like these moves are no different. If they wanted to go after these very real issues then they would and they definitely wouldn’t be (dangerously) conflating the issues. Also why can I still look up violent pro-Nazi, antisemitic imagery but not a goddamn nipple??
BTW read into how Apple has been forcefully pushing for this move & how easily they can go after other NSFW-content websites and force them to comply.
We all have our errors. Many of the old Marxist-Leninists held or tolerated bigoted views towards LGBTQ people, while the anarchists never had a successful revolution. Here’s to the future!
Wow that means it ok to call homophobes queer now. Woke.