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Erased by tweets, born of heated anger and frustration, from earlier. Talked with someone and saw that the impact they can have. And I don't want to be unfair to good people.
I just get frustrated and angry. I look out at the world and see a rising tide of bigotry and hatred and violence aimed at women, queer folx, POC, disabled people, etc, in *addition* to everything involving Covid and it gets to me. I feel like things are changing for
The worse sometimes and I feel helpless to do anything, to protect myself, my loved ones and well everyone else
I look at the Fangoria/Cinestate situation, as just one example, and don't know what to do. @Fangoria has always meant a lot to me. I have read them since I was 15--thats over 20 years ago. I own all but 16 issues. And I want to keep supporting them and the people
Who write for them. Phil is giving a lot of people opportunities, and *is* doing the hard work of boosting voices that need to and *deserve* to be boosted. And that is no small deal, and they should be lauded for that.
I just struggle, as a queer person, on the moral scale. I see one side says boycott everything at Cinestate at all cost, watch where the money flows. And I get that. But I see anothet side say don't throw the baby out with the bathwater that the Fango side of CS
Is trying to elevate voices, and those people shouldn't be punished-- and I get that, and they shouldn't be punished. So I constantly ask myself what is the best course of action: do I cut off my money, but spite folks trying to male a living and spread voices that need to be
Heard? Or support them and risk my money potentially funding another company that uses its platform to post inflammatory and divisive articles and tweets against lqbtq, poc, women and more?
Is a difficult question and all I really want is for Sonnier to talk to the ppl who run Rebeller and just say "stop it with the articles that verge on alt-right bigotry" (esp when they have nothing to do with film)
I want everyone to still be able to work and get published. I want to love my dear Fangoria again. I want to support Phil, Anya, Preston, Meredith and everyone involved. I just get angry, frustrated and confused when Rebeller undermines their efforts (and frankly
I'd love to support Rebeller, too, if only to read Jacob's writing again.) I don't know what to do and it sucks. In truth, I don't want the Fango people to pay for the sins Rebeller reaps. I just want Sonnier to know that words have an effect. Just like I can affect
Some people negatively with a tweet, so can Rebeller with one, and more so and article. All I want is for people to not feel...left out. We have been for too, too long. So @DallasSonnier I ask, I beg of you, please listen to folk and help us find a solution
Where we can all live in peace. We are a community and we need to do right by each other, even when we don't always agree.
That's all I have to say. I don't want to stoke folx anxieties and have them worry about their jobs, and I'm sorry to any Fango writer that may have been put in that position of feeling that. I'm just tired of seeing MAGA style language infiltrate the community that I love.