I’ve noticed this growing trend over the years where a lot of people are obsessed with being perceived as morally pure and using their purity clout to smear and belittle other people for not having the same obessive attitude towards their treat consumption.

The biggest example I can think of, that recently happened, was that Harry Potter game where people got doxxed and had their streaming careers destroyed for playing it.

the game sold more than 12 million copies and generated $850 million in global sales revenue.

I refuse to believe that even a fraction of those 12 million people even care about Rowling’s shitty opinions or even think about trans people, yet online moral guardians had a month long freakout and acted as if just mentioning the game was making trans people unsafe and felt the need to exclude and punish anyone who admitted to playing it.

You see the same delusional behaviour around every American culture war issue where somehow, your consumption of media or certain treats somehow carries a moral gravity to it.

Where your virtues are defined by which brand of capsule coffee machine you prefer, which superhero franchise you watch, which flavor of the month movie you watch or what type of video games, cartoons or books you enjoy.

It feels like every moral issue in the online world is defined by your treats. And what you are as a person is exclusively defined by what treats you spend money on. As if abstaining from reading a fucking Harry Potter book is going to impact the very real violence LGBTQ people are exposed to in the real world.

The moral fanatics who spend all their time waging their holy wars on the internet, never interact with people in real life activist communities.

I’ve never heard my offline comrades even mention Harry Potter, Keurig capsule machines, rainbow beers, that pedo-movie, niche online identities or other brands that get these online moralists to froth in their mouths.

And yet, on the internet, you have to constantly tread on eggshells, lest you upset some twitter-obsessed rageaholic with an axe to grind over some imagined issue that isn’t even known about in the real world.

With my offline friends and comrades, we just hang out and shoot the shit like normal people while doing our activities together. No one’s trying to start a flamestorm over what brand of clothing we wear or what movies we like.

The phenomenon of viciously punishing anyone for not being as obsessed about their consumption as the Arbiters Of Morality is such an absurd thing to see when it accomplishes absolutely nothing and doesn’t even impact anything or anyone in real life.

There seems to be a huge disconnect between actual real life activism that actually does something and the weird online activism where people sit in their caves and scream at the shadows in front of them.

I don’t even know what point I’m trying to make here. I’m just typing some thoughts that I’ve had stuck in my head for a while.