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mantsifesto

There comes a time when it is necessary to make your position known,

and for me that time has arrived. I want to make it clear where I

stand, and why.

I am absolutely and unalterably opposed to racism, sexism, homophobia,

transphobia, nationalism, ethnocentrism, religious fundamentalism, and

oppressive and coercive power structures of all kinds.

I am absolutely in favor of acceptance of human diversity and peaceful

intercombinations of cultures and ethnicities.

I oppose violence by individuals and by governments save as a last

resort of self-defense against immediate physical danger in both

cases.

I am in favor of free and open communications, including ideas which

may be offensive, but excluding exploitation of children,

nonconsensual invasions of bodily privacy, and nonconsensual sadistic

treatment of people or animals except as necessary to expose and

prosecute those guilty of these acts.

I believe in sexual freedom as long as consent and boundaries are

appropriately respected. I believe in the freedom to alter one's own

consciousness as one chooses as long as harm is not done to others.

I believe in cooperative democratic community governance to maximize

the well-being of individuals, so long as the above principles are not

violated.

I find it necessary to state these things explicitly, because Bad Shit

has gotten way, way out of hand, and I want to do my part to promote

peace and love and toler-ants. I also have the selfish motivation to

prevent any possible confusions based on my existence within the -chan

namespace.

I want to be clear that i am not "disowning" associations with -chan

culture. I'm fighting to try to save it. There have always been

Unfortunate Aspects of imageboard culture, but 4chan in the mid 2000s

was an amazing place and I think it is important to stand up and say

that NOT all of us who were there - and not all of us who may be there

still - were or are disgusting racist pedophile white nationalists.

Some of us have been fighting against that bullshit from when it

mostly masqueraded as humor and jokes to now when it has become

perilously close to a dominant ideology in some places.

Be excellent to each other.

-mycroftiv