Most Likely A Refuge

[whatamithinking]

It was probably safe.

The bar was...unusually reticent, in the lower layers of her mind (and she hadn't pried further; she wasn't sure if she'd be noticed; she wasn't sure if offending would get her kicked out, and regardless of whether it was actually safe it was safer than anywhere else she'd been for the past...three years?) so she couldn't be sure this place wasn't really a trap of some kind, but the higher layers gave a plausible explanation that didn't involve being a trap, and whatever else it was warm and dry and had food. Her guard was probably a full 25% down. Positively trusting, these days.

Comments

[whatamithinking]

"I mean, kinda, except it got a whole lot more backlash than the historical cases. 'Nazi' is pretty much synonymous with evil, now."

[onceandforall]

"But in a way mostly divorced from the details."

[whatamithinking]

"It sure didn't put a dent in homophobia, but out of all the different groups the Nazis decided to throw in death camps, Jewish people are the most iconic ones."

[onceandforall]

"Yes, and it made anti-Semitism... impolite, but it didn't scratch much deeper, I think? And you can talk around an impolite thing. Talk about Israel instead, or whatever."

[whatamithinking]

"Yyyyeah apparently the people doing the rioting were calling themselves pro-Palestine or something, you're not wrong."

[onceandforall]

"It hasn't been my focus but I listen around."

[whatamithinking]

"It's just...kind of discouraging."

[onceandforall]

"Yeah." Handsqueeze.

[whatamithinking]

Handsqueeze. "Sometimes I just want to take over the world because I could run it better, but then I remember that that's the best way to get branded a villain, thwarted by my peers and with a severely damaged ability to persuade other people to stop being terrible."

[onceandforall]

"Well, that's a reason not to violently take over the world."

[whatamithinking]

"Any other method would be enough more work--in terms of developing a viable plan as well as executing it--that I have yet to determine that would be more efficient than just keeping on as I currently plan to, in terms of fixing things."

[onceandforall]

"Yeah, fair enough. What I'd do if I were you about the anti-Semitism thing is find former anti-Semites. People who know the mindset and how to get from there to here."

[whatamithinking]

"I mean, it's a good idea, but then you have the question of how to find them. Just asking seems...ineffectual at best, extremely rude at worst."

[onceandforall]

"Well, don't go ask individuals on the street. Maybe try the Internet or ask nice friendly Christian clergypeople if they can put you in touch with anyone who has that sort of history."

[whatamithinking]

"I might go with the latter one, that's a good idea. Trying to find someone on the internet with criteria like that...I'm not sure how I'd go about it."

[onceandforall]

"You'd have to be prepared to filter. Heavily."

[whatamithinking]

"...Doing it personally sounds like an exercise in anger management techniques, but maybe I could hire a magical girl groupie or something to do it."

[onceandforall]

"Do you get a lot of those?"

[whatamithinking]

"Personally, not a whole lot, but I'm public enough about my goals and opinions to have a niche following of mostly tumblr social justice warriors. The trick would be finding one who would not also find the task an exercise in anger management techniques."

[onceandforall]

"I'm not sure anyone describable as a 'social justice warrior' will match that description."

[whatamithinking]

"Yeah. It is only mostly, thankfully, but."

[onceandforall]

"What's tumblr?"

[whatamithinking]

"...It's a website. For blogging, mostly. And you can 'reblog' someone else's post to your own blog and add a comment and add tags and there's a bunch of cultural baggage to go with it."

[onceandforall]

"Joy."

[whatamithinking]

"Enh, it's not bad. Not, like, bad cultural baggage, I just mean that I don't think I can explain the whole thing without more time than I suspect either of us care to allocate to the project."