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Ever heard of Pawlik Morozov?

Pavlik Morozov, or Pavlik as he is better known was a Soviet youth glorified as a martyr by the Soviet propaganda machine. Born as Pavel Trofimovich Morozov in 1918 to poor peasants in the village of Gerasimovka, some 350km north east of Sverdlovsk in the Soviet Union (today Ekaterinburg in Russia) Pawlik was a dedicated communist who led the Young Pioneers at his school and supported actively Stalin's collectivism of farms.

He became famous when at the age of 13 he went to the political police the GPU and reported his father to them for allegedly 'forging documents and selling them to bandits and reactionaries working against the state'. The father, Trofim, was arrested, sent to a labour camp for ten years and subsequently executed. Pawlik's family didn't take kindly to this at all, and soon after, on September 3 1932 his uncle, grandmother, grandfather, cousin and younger brother all got together and murdered Pawlik. All the family except the uncle were rounded up by the GPU and sentenced to the highest measure of social defence' - execution by firing squad.

Thousands of telegrams poured in from all over the Soviet Union urging the authorities to show no mercy to the killers. The Soviet government declared Pawlik a glorious martyr who had been murdered by reactionaries. There were monuments and statues built of him, schools right across the Soviet Union named in his memory, songs written, pilgrimages made to the school he attended in Gerasimovka by school children from all over the Soviet Union, and even an opera based on what had happened.

However it's highly unlikely any of these events ever happened, as the only evidence is hearsay and second hand witness accounts. It's a myth, a legend, Soviet propaganda, the classic Soviet morality tale: obedience to the state is a higher virtue than family love.

Now it would appear that nearly a century later here on either side of the Atlantic we have a new era of totalitarianism and history could oh so easily repeat itself and we could end up with a Western version of Pawlik. It could even be for example a Mohammed Pawlik, a young Muslim who said the wrong thing at the wrong time in the wrong place and on the right day with a couple of journalists and the media, we would easily have another Pawlik.

Only history wouldn't be repeating itself exactly. The oppression we are under is far more implicit, we still have democracy and a certain amount of liberty, we can still vote if we like, for who we like, the votes are counted and those who win form the government. This time the totalitarianism is coming to a certain degree with 'the will of the people' who after 20-30 years of clever social conditioning where we have been conditioned to compete against one another and become valuable to society as a resource, the haves are struggling to remain haves and to protect themselves against the have nots. This is totalitarianism coming out of class warfare.

And maybe not so much out at the munches and the events, you can see this very much if you care to join or log into any BDSM website. Only some are really interested in BDSM and 'the lifestyle', but many others aren't.. and here I have in mind the scammers, those who are just here for the money, whatever they can get out of other people, those who seek to exploit and use others.. those who cheat, deceive, and yes, there's the dangerous side of BDSM coming from organized crime hand in hand with petty criminals and also those who perhaps need a little more supervision than they're getting.

But it's also bringing the fascists, influenced by God knows what, reality TV, media, politics, religion, who come on here with a sense of social privilege and feel that it is their entitlement and moral duty to decide what is acceptable and what isn't, what is normal and what isn't.

Yes normal, acceptable, here on a BDSM website where people look for others to beat, whip, tie up, piss on, and others who need this sort of treatment.

Let's take for example taking hold of someone's profile, their personal space allocated for them to write or express themselves however which way they wish, and copying it verbatim as the opening post on a message board.

Now don't get me wrong, there are profiles worthy of discussion, humour, a good laugh, photos too, and I certainly don't see anything wrong in anyone doing this among the people they already know, as friends, where it is shared in private.

But to decide to take someone's profile on your own and post it on message board with an opinion or offering opinions from people you don't know, complete strangers, that to me is unacceptable. What's more it's a blasphemy of everything the community is supposed to stand for, especially when the questions is asked 'is this acceptable or not?'

I'm sorry, I cannot sit in silence on this issue. Not when those who are doing it 'for a laugh' think it's 'harmless fun'. It isn't. It's not funny at all. Some people come here because they find it difficult to find acceptance in wider society, they don't have that sense of social privilege, they are unsure of who they are and how it relates to their kinks and fetishes, some are going through a very vulnerable stage either emotionally, psychologically, and others really don't have much of a social network - for whatever reason - beyond the mouse, keyboard and computer.

I know, I was one of these people, and I know there are others. And well whaddya know, those people who are excluded from mainstream society are now being shut out of the BDSM community and your 'just for a laugh' or 'a bit of fun' actually does cause them misery, anguish, anxiety, depression, and other problems. Not that this would concern such people who do post other people's profiles, for they are too wrapped up in themselves to ever consider other people, and they lack the awareness, intelligence, humanity, tact and social skills to comprehend what it is they're doing is wrong or hurting people.

This is fascism. And it's right here in this group.

And I'm sorry, but I have my principles and morality, my own, and I would rather take a bullet through the head than associate with such people.

Therefore I'm out of here. I'm a Collarme Refugee Refugee. Those who know me know where to find me elsewhere, I'm quitting the group and the site owners are welcome to delete my profile here.

But please don't let me stop you. Enjoy the party.

After all, this is truly about freedom of personal self-expression. You now have peace. I'm no longer posting here.

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

Stella,

I can cure any misgivings I have about these sorts of things with drink. I dunno, am I the only one?

Is this normal?

Ron

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ORIGINAL: hlen5

  I don't think the point was taking another's profile as your own as much as person A posting person B's profile specifically to ridicule it.


That is small and uncalled for. See something you don't care for? Ignore and MOVE ON.