I really do think an important component of activism is to make sure your motivation is based on a desire to help/improve things for the people being harmed by a system, and not hatred for the ones doing the harm. both for mental health reasons, and because either way you’re training your neural pathways and it’s gonna turn out a lot better for literally everyone if the question on everyone’s mind after achieving a goal is “how/which people can we help next, what’s the next step for improving things” and not “who do we need to attack next.”
I’m not saying don’t be angry, there are a lot of good reasons to be angry right now and it makes for an excellent kick in the pants, just don’t define yourself by it or it’s gonna poison you and potentially do collateral damage.
It’s genuinely genuinely genuinely horrible that like there is no recourse to being filmed in public. Either you let it happen and you get made fun of for whatever mild eccentricity you display, you ask them to stop filming you and get called a Karen, or you try to ruin the filming and get torn to shreds for being a “bully”
Today I learned the highly saturated coloring on all of the gen 1-2 Sugimori Pokemon art was only like that because of shitty quality scans somebody made over 20 years ago that then got circulated all over the net. Tauros’s art for example actually looks like this. What the fuck.
