I want every single person on Tumblr read this. This is important, this is what SJW are doing. It’s not just a Tumblr issue and that’s simply terrifying.
I’d just like to add that this doesn’t condemn trigger warnings, it condemns the overabuse of trigger warnings which makes them appear defunct and take away the seriousness of their implications
Think people who self-diagnose themself with depression or schizophrenia because they think it makes them edgy or cool
It’s important that we be provoked. The world is a dangerous and strange place and we’ve got to be able to deal with that.
If you sterilize a child’s environment, physically, they will form allergies to things because their body doesn’t know how to deal with foreign things being around. Thus, if you sterilize a child’s mental environment, they won’t know how to deal with things that upset them or seem strange. We are, as a generation, becoming ‘allergic’ to emotional response and the reactions are becoming disproportionate.
Social justice, at its nature, is a good thing. Feminism, pro-gender and sexuality, and the push towards better understanding of mental illness are all good things that we as a people need to get a grip with and integrate into our society to be a better people.
However, this… dramatic overreaction to anything deemed remotely offensive, this hypersensitivity to concepts we may not necessarily agree with and at worst, the complete refusal to understand or analyze them, is dangerous and backward.
A phobia is not treated by isolation, it is treated by slow exposure and an acquired respect. You don’t have to like things, but you do have to be able to understand them and be able to discuss and analyze them like adults.
The right to provoke intellectually, and to be provoked, is necessary to any artist, educator, scientist and thinker. Because there will be times when your world view is wrong and there is no castle, no ivory tower of structured thinking, that is not worthy of being challenged.
Oh my word, please do yourself a favor and read this. It’s a little lengthy but it really highlights a lot of the major problems with not only tumblr’s culture, but really America on the whole.
It doesn’t straight up condemn the idea of trigger warnings really or even the idea of political correctness necessarily. It DOES warn how the overabuse of these things have negatively affected our generation.
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