I reblogged one specifically because it had links to specific posts the artist had made that were pretty clearly not someone I or probably most of my followers would want to support. Even if I'm not on board with "white law enforcement = bad", I didn't feel like it was appropriate to start wank or take the same links and post them as my own findings. Ultimately it was my discomfort with the law enforcement thing that led me to delete it sometime last night.
I still see far more controversy over so-called "SJWs" than actual "SJW" posts. For every one "hey this is bad to trans people", there are at least 10 "omG TUMBLR so OFFENDED we can't have anything nice!!" Which was the case I found for Frozen (thankfully after I saw it) -- maybe like 3 posts actually calling it racist and a pile more mocking people for thinking that way. One of my friends did an untagged personal post that boiled down to "I'm not interested in seeing this and I wish there were more black princesses" and got slammed for being an oversensitive, impossible-to-please social justice warrior.
I think it's just really misleading to act like it's just one site being like this, or like it originated on tumblr. It was the LJ crowd raising the torches because of a slur used in a fic, right? And how many people have just shut down journals because they got linked somewhere or quoted saying something gross? Comment trains can be as hard to follow as reblog ones -- if I see a post with a pile of replies, from a glance, how am I going to know if it's all "yes, you go OP!" or "OP, get your head out of your ass"? Not without uncollapsing every single thread on the post, which takes about as much time as scrolling through notes to get a feel for what's going on.
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I still see far more controversy over so-called "SJWs" than actual "SJW" posts. For every one "hey this is bad to trans people", there are at least 10 "omG TUMBLR so OFFENDED we can't have anything nice!!" Which was the case I found for Frozen (thankfully after I saw it) -- maybe like 3 posts actually calling it racist and a pile more mocking people for thinking that way. One of my friends did an untagged personal post that boiled down to "I'm not interested in seeing this and I wish there were more black princesses" and got slammed for being an oversensitive, impossible-to-please social justice warrior.
I think it's just really misleading to act like it's just one site being like this, or like it originated on tumblr. It was the LJ crowd raising the torches because of a slur used in a fic, right? And how many people have just shut down journals because they got linked somewhere or quoted saying something gross? Comment trains can be as hard to follow as reblog ones -- if I see a post with a pile of replies, from a glance, how am I going to know if it's all "yes, you go OP!" or "OP, get your head out of your ass"? Not without uncollapsing every single thread on the post, which takes about as much time as scrolling through notes to get a feel for what's going on.