I am now refilling my queue LIFO. It will be on for two posts a day.
And then I think I will be taking a hiatus.
If you want reasons, here you go.
Tumblr is a phenomenal place. It’s a place where creative minds can stretch out and experiment and create. It’s also a marvelous place to learn about things.
But social justice bloggers have really been getting to me recently.
The problem with social justice blogs is that they’ve turned a movement about equality into a movement that demonizes everyone for any mistake and offers no hope of redemption or forgiveness.
It’s just a question of feeling superior. The reason that these social justice bloggers just yell and scream is because they don’t actually want to educate anyone. All they want to do is lord their “intelligence” over everyone and scream about oppression. And yes, I did mean to quote “intelligence.” These people aren’t being smart, they’re just yelling definitions and “CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE” at people that they deem unworthy or sexist or racist or transphobic or… the list goes on and on. This isn’t intelligence. This is like Jeopardy! Trust me on this, you are not being smart here. You are not being intelligent.
The way for you to be intelligent here is to calmly go to the people that you find problematic, tell them what you found problematic, and most importantly, how they can do better. Yelling at people isn’t going to educate them. Yelling at someone that they did something wrong isn’t helping anyone but yourself. All it’s doing is helping your ego.
When someone apologizes, and sincerely means it, you accept that. That’s how we work in the real world. You don’t lord it over their heads for that one time they messed up.
People really need to relax. I understand what oppression feels like. I understand. I understand this completely. But you can’t expect everyone to be perfect all the time completely and utterly flawless. We are human. We make mistakes. And you know what? Most of us try to be better. To rise above our faults. That’s what redeems us as humans.
You denying people’s trying to be better denies their humanity.
If you want any more specifics, feel free to message me. I’ll be on sporadically to refill the queue.
tl;dr, “social justice” bloggers are pissing me off and I need to step back for my own sanity.
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