writing-prompt-s:
Thank you everyone for reading and sharing my pinned post. Hate mail went from 50+ per hour to 0! Back to writing prompts soon <3
You harassed a Gazan genocide survivor off of Tumblr (he’s had his account for over a decade, and on it, he’s documented the horrific losses his family has suffered even before October 7th), doubled down on accusing all GFMs vetted by Palestinians on Tumblr of being part of an organized scam ring by hyperfocusing on the one GFM on that list that’s sketchy (no regard, of course, to how this might effect the hundreds of other families trying to survive a genocide), quietly deleted all evidence of yourself being racist to the genocide survivor you fueled a harassment campaign against, never apologized for any of this, and now, after you’ve gotten to play the victim for a bit, you’re doing a victory lap and celebrating the harm you’ve done.
But before you go back to your regular scheduling of stealing posts from Reddit and pretending they’re your own, I think you’re followers should know what the backlash against you is about.
Here’s screenshots and a links to the posts you’ve quietly deleted:
NOTE: The person sending this ask is Mahmoud Balousha, a Palestinian refugee currently residing outside of the country. He’s organizing several GFMs on behalf of his family, and is very much a real person.
Here’s a post from his Palestinian friend (another long-time Tumblr user), with a reply from one of the people who has been in daily contact with Mahmoud and helped him set up a fundraiser.
Anyway, here’s how writing-prompt-s decided to reply to Mahmoud’s plea for help:
I’ll repost my own reply here, since you never acknowledged it, and never apologized to Ahmed (90-ghost):
This is really not my story to tell. It feels very uncomfortable to shared Ahmed’s history like this, and to see how he’s been forced to be this public about his loss and trauma in order to be believed (and then to see you, still doubting him!).
Ahmed is now trying to adjust to a life in Egypt, still has most of his friends and family in Gaza, and is struggling just to cover his own living expenses in the city he’s now a displaced refugee in.
The fact that you, from the safety of your home (Ahmed’s has been turned to rubble by Israeli bombs), felt so comfortable dragging him and other Palestinians through the mud like this is despicable.
And you can read yourself from @/Killy, the person who initiated Ahmed’s fundraiser when he was still in Gaza, the horrible effect this harassment campaign you’ve started has had on him:
Do you have any fucking conscience at all?
You never responded to any of this, and I know for a fact that you at least saw my reply, because shortly after, you made a new post doubling down where you tried to imply Ahmed had faked his entire blogging history:
And again, my reply, which you also didn’t respond to:
You’ve done real, material harm to the Palestinians you’re dragging through this. And I think you’re very well aware of that, you just don’t care and you never will.
Here’s the donation links again:
And lastly, if you want to accuse me of contributing to spreading scams, that’s fine. My conscience is clear. I’d rather take the risk of accidentally promoting a scam (and I’ve seen no evidence that I have so far done so) than keep silent and deny help to people desperately trying to survive a genocide.
