I can't imagine that the trend could get any worse this year, it'll probably reach its peak during it

More and more I find ppl who are really getting fed up with tumblr's bullshit left and right, which is kind of a double edged sword since for one it's good that people acknowledge that Tumblr's methods and some of their casues are fucking stupid and are made aware of it but on the other hand too many ppl are gonna be saying "go back to tumblr" to dismiss genuinely good causes

go back to 4chan

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everyone always drops 4chan. i've actually never really checked out 4chan tbh but i never mention it because i feel like i'm out of touch with internet culture lol

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The only guilt I feel is that this got AOTY over Sufjan

i've actually never really checked out 4chan

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this was always going to win aoty. not so unlike how the academy awards are set up. racial themes automatically makes the piece of art 10 times likely to get an award. not even joking, this has been a trend for a long time now

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I honestly don't think ranking causes like that is really the way to go when it comes to fixing the world though. Who decides what is worse than anything else?



Otherwise should we ban people donating money to the WWF because humans >> animals? Should we stop caring about domestic violence because more people are ding in africa? It's not as cut and dry as X is worse than Y so fix X first imo.



Also, it is a lot easier for people to empathise and understand things that are part of the culture they themselves live in, for example how can a middle calss white woman living in America *really* understand exactly what life is like for a poor young african child? So the causes they can understand, 1st world feminism and smaller injustices (but injustices still) that exist in their lives are what they understand.



There is a huge problem in the 1st world with image-dissonance when it comes to poverty. We see poverty in the third world through the lens of pictures and videos and white people visiting those countries showing us more images. We don't experience their lives, or exist in the same context or society as them. it's a type of othering. We think because we feel sorry for them that we understand, but the issue seems foreign and alien to us in our brains. it's why you can hear a statistic of 20000 people dying in Ethiopia and feel sad but move on with your day but the Paris attacks happen and you feel real emotion when so few people died compared.



Shit's complicated. This stuff is hard to fix. And when it's on everyone's mind and in current issues everyone feels like they need an opinion on it. But quick opinions on things tend to be simplistic, and this is the opposite of simplistic. Simplistic opinions just don't work here, but since everyone has one when something's in the public eye, they become the mainstream opinion.

nice essays why don't you start a tumblr

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i think my main issue is with people victimizing themselves, or having an elated sense of moralistic values and then projecting that sense of entitlement, or excluding others from a conversation about these issues because they're 'privileged.' i see a lot of that shit going on these days

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People like to feel like they had things hard compared to other people, and other people don't like being told they haven't got things hard.



Because everyone has their own problems that really only they fully understand. So a randomer going because you're white/cis/gay/straight/jewish/a muslim you are better/worse off than me feel honestly insulting to the complexity and impact of those problems that everyone has individually.

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'nice essays why don't you start a tumblr'



because people don't actually read essays they read buzzwords and stuff they already believe duh

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yes, exactly. we all have our own issues, and when we discuss who's privileged and who isn't and bar them from a dialogue on these issues, we're practicing exclusion, and that's where the problem begins

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When people try and bar people from discussions like that it's because they don't like dissenting opinions and want an echo chamber not a real discussion. it's weak shit

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^ i couldn't agree with you more

more people are offended by tumblr being offended than the original group. for every SJW bitching, i see ten people bitching about the SJW.

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Good. We need those SJW's to be the minority.

my point is that largely middle class white male demographics of a lot of internet culture really like to circlejerk and magnify shit where they're wronged in any way because it's so rare for them to feel persecuted. the sjw shit isn't really a huge movement, they just make out that it is.

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IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK



Edit: Wtf is this convo above me just stop

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plz & thank u

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direnrefused tbh everything in that post was bs. this sjw movement is a huge thing and it's a fucking burden on mankind. sorry, 'humankind,' i should say. don't want to trigger anyone in here