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Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.

And it is a trap.

An ask like this has several purposes.

First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.

The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.

Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)

The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.

Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:

Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.

The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.

Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG

If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*

They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.

It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.

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To white people out there, if there is a POC open and willing to call out racist and problematic behavior, the best thing to do to be an anti-racist ally is to support the POC trying to speak and limit the amount of which you add your two cents.

While the intent is good and appreciated and actually helpful when there isn't a POC around to speak for themselves, white people talking about the complex issues that POC bring up in mixed spaces will always make space for misunderstanding, removing nuance, and distorting the message POC are trying to say.

Always remember, as much as you care and try to learn about the issues POC have, you will not know the topic more in depth, more personally, and more intensely than someone with lived experience.

This also applies to POC that disagree with what most POC say.

If a POC disagrees with what you've heard other POC saying, it is not your place to tell them that they are wrong - you don't have the life experience to understand the topic enough to argue at other POC. Leave POC discourse with POC to other people who have the lived experience.

Know your place and stay in your lane, else you run a huge risk of being a white knight and speaking over POC and derailing the Point of any complaints that POC are trying to get heard.

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WHY SOME PEOPLE SHIFT QUICKER?

this is all to do with focus.

when a person first learns about shifting, they are eager and excited to be in their dr. the focus, attention, and energy is in the place they desire.

when someone has been on their shifting journey for awhile, the focus is no longer on being in the dr, it is GETTING to their dr, it is simply the act of shifting. getting symptoms, the first moment of waking up there, the feeling of "success."

i was also doing this, and i realized a crucial difference in those two definitions. one defines themselves as someone who is trying to get somewhere, and one is someone who is already there. in their heart, in their mind, in their energy, they exemplify the person who is in their dr.

i understand it like being on a plane. one person doesn't focus very much on the flight, it is just the transportation to get to the real destination. another person imagines that the plane doesn't work, so they are focused on how to get there. that ensures that they remain on the plane.

in other words, undue focus on the process will lead to more "process."

another person on tiktok said this well, when they advised to not focus on your symptoms. that is because those symptoms aren't happening to the person in your desired reality, they are happening here. the act of shifting is happening here! the version of you that has shifted is there.

shifting isn't a physical thing. to be in that reality, you become the person who has always been there. and to have always been there, shifting MUST not be the focus.

someone (💗) sent me a tiktok about this, it was a reddit post, please if someone knows the @ tell me!

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