This is perhaps too much of an academic opinion but it’s become clearer to me over the years that many people on social media see racism as a permanent scarlet letter on someone’s record rather than an underlying ideology that anyone can recite and perpetuate unknowingly. These words from How To Be An Anti-Racist have always stuck with me
[Image ID: Two passages clipped out of a textbook. Text reads: “MY RACIST INTRODUCTION * 11 "racist itself back to its proper usage. "Racist” is not – as Richard Spencer argues – a pejorative. It is not the worst word in the English language; it is not the equivalent of a “slur.” It is descriptive, and the only way to undo what is racist is to consistently identify and describe it – and then dismantle it. The attempt to turn this usefully descriptive term into an almost unusable slur is, of course, designed to do the opposite: to freeze us into inaction.
THE GOOD NEWS is that racist and antiracist are not fixed identifies. We can be a racist one minute and an antiracist the next. What we say about race, what we do about race, in each moment, determines what – not who – we are.“ End ID.]
2014 Tumblr wasn’t about whatever Tik Tok thinks it was about. 2014 Tumblr was about overanalyzing Captain America: The Winter Soldier and that one website that let you play Cards Against Humanity online
And it slapped
me on a date: tell me your thoughts on 2014 tumblr them: oh that place? lol that was so cringe I- me, shoving breadsticks into my purse: I have to go
secret government agent: *punches me in the face* SAY IT! me:nogovernment agent: say 2014 tumblr was cringe and the new culture is better! me: *spits blood at the agent’s feet* fuck you
“[whatever Tik Tok thinks it was about]” I came out to have a good time and I’m honestly feeling so attacked right now
because 2014 tumblr had the best snemes (snake snail memes)
none of you denying it now would survive the Skeleton War
Beautiful Internet Era Too Good For This World, Too Pure
girls don’t want boys, girls want a return to actually wholesome memes
when I die I want 2020s tumblr to lower me into my grave so you can let me down one last time
I will climb 90-post-per-day blog archives to find 2014 tumblr content. I crave that mineral
this post is the real last meme of 2014
“average site spawns 3 iconic memes a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average site spawns 0 iconic memes per year. 2014 tumblr, which lived outside Plato’s cave & spawned over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
