Can we please stop it with the Tumblr hate?

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PsychicTaco115 said:
Please, NOBODY uses Google+ ;P
That's what we want you to think. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

OT: A lot of the user base for Tumblr is teens and we all know teens; they post whatever comes to mind

It's a lot like a diary but you can't burn the diary when you find it again after 5 years
Yeah, but that basically makes it...Just like the rest of the internet. YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, 4Chan (for anyone who identifies themselves), etc. It'll be a thing long after Tumblr goes away because it was a thing long before, too. In fact, I'd wager Tumblr's name sticks around longer as a pejorative than as a mainstream service.

M0rp43vs said:
What I tend to think are SJWs are basically people of the PC movement who tend to be overzealous at time, hence the warrior part of the title. They exist everywhere on the internet but the most visible group exists on tumblr for reasons others have pointed out.
Yeah, but I've been called a SJW just for pointing out facts. That's kind of the thing. By the Escapist's standards, you're pro-PC and would almost certainly be considered a SJW on the standards here. It's a trigger word[footnote]Note: Like feminist, this term had an actual use prior to the internet deciding to demand trigger warnings on everything, and I won't back off the word simply because some people have an automatic reaction to it.[/footnote] intended to make people feel uncomfortable and to distance themselves. and it's applied broadly enough that it can cover anything. Since "warrior" is just a ironic pejorative, it doesn't even matter if there's particular zeal involved. Just as I'm a "feminazi" for thinking that women are people too, you could easily be considered a social justice warrior for being "politically correct." Hell, political correctness is a similar bogeyman concept.
 

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Zachary Amaranth said:
Yeah, but I've been called a SJW just for pointing out facts.
Yea, no surprise. Like the words "Hipster", "Femi-Nazi", "Misogynist" and "literally Hitler", which describes a thing that does exist, they have become a sort of straw man ad hominem (Is that correct? I haven't been keeping up on my internet fallacy collection), magical words that once used, means you immediately win an argument.

And for some reason, the "last bastion of intelligence on the internet" loves throwing them around lately.

Which does annoy me, because like swearing, once you start using them wily-nily they start losing a lot of impact.

Also, Footnotes are my trigger. Mostly of sexual kind due to my love of Terry Prachett, but a trigger no less so remove it next time.
 

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Alleged_Alec said:
Okay, I've skimmed through the thread, since I haven't slept for thirty hours now and am not in the right state of mind to read 5 pages of posts. However, this is what I think about it:

IT'S WHAT PEOPLE DO.

Seriously, this is happening everywhere, every time to everyone. Some leftist guy wants to make some stupid law? "Democrats want to enact [stupid law]." Some suicide bomber blows himself up? "Muslims want to destroy America". /b/ and /pol/ poke tumblr? "4chan raids tumblr"

People will always simplify this way. Get over it.
Oh sure, if "it's what people do" who cares if it's completely wrong right? We should never ever seek to inform, challenge or correct anything. Ignorance and bigotry is much easier and doesn't make your head hurt.
Oh, get over yourself. Yes, it would be better if people didn't do this shit. However, telling people to stop it on one subject doesn't help. If you want to make changes here, you need to the source of whatever it is that makes people do this.
 

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Alleged_Alec said:
DementedSheep said:
Alleged_Alec said:
Okay, I've skimmed through the thread, since I haven't slept for thirty hours now and am not in the right state of mind to read 5 pages of posts. However, this is what I think about it:

IT'S WHAT PEOPLE DO.

Seriously, this is happening everywhere, every time to everyone. Some leftist guy wants to make some stupid law? "Democrats want to enact [stupid law]." Some suicide bomber blows himself up? "Muslims want to destroy America". /b/ and /pol/ poke tumblr? "4chan raids tumblr"

People will always simplify this way. Get over it.
Oh sure, if "it's what people do" who cares if it's completely wrong right? We should never ever seek to inform, challenge or correct anything. Ignorance and bigotry is much easier and doesn't make your head hurt.
Oh, get over yourself. Yes, it would be better if people didn't do this shit. However, telling people to stop it on one subject doesn't help. If you want to make changes here, you need to the source of whatever it is that makes people do this.
Everyone generalise without thinking from time to time but calling people out on it so they do stop and think about it dose work a lot the time. Certainly work better than being defeatist and never even trying to discus a problem.
 

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No, no I think I'm still going to take the piss out of Tumblr.

The more interesting question is why it bothers you so much. I mean, I like 4chan, I hardly ever see any of the crap people blame on 4chan but this forum used to love ragging on it.

That was OK then so why isn't this OK now?