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There is something subtly insidious about people who use ‘tumblr’ as a sort of placeholder for social justice bloggers or marginalized people.

It’s so subtle, the way they use ‘tumblr’ as a replacement for what they believe are ‘young, willfully ignorant, slacktivist sheeple’.

It’s laugh-worthy how offendable and whiny they are, in regards to being threatened by socially/politically aware people on the internet.

It’s hilarious how they will go to any lengths to trivialize, generalize and undermine every cause that they don’t understand.

Why is it funny? The ‘plight of the white’ or the ‘struggles of being straight’. Why do these things catch us as humorous?

Joseph Fink said it best.

"It’s simple: Comedy is funny and brave when aimed at yourself or the powerful. It’s lazy and cruel when aimed at the weak or persecuted.”

So, when someone uses ‘tumblr’ as a placeholder for the persecuted, especially in a joke, what do they mean? Why don’t they just say what they mean?

"Everyone on tumblr is so easily offended. Hate breeds hate. It goes both ways. You hate me because I’m cis/straight/white. I’m oppressed, too because [false equivalency]!"

Translation: “I am ignorant to the struggles of those around me and I believe the persecuted are too loud about their oppression.

This bothers me because I am uncomfortable when things aren’t about me or when my identity is the target of negativity.

I am used to being privileged and will say anything to feel like a victim.”

Jun19