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