End Suppression On tumblr.com

As a person, do you represent something that Tumblr as a majority tends not to support? We are sick of the blatant bullying people get put through here on tumblr for expressing their right to free speech. ESO is a safe haven for controversial opinions.

[seafoampup]

cis ppl: *refers to an animal with the incorrect pronouns and then corrects themselves* cis ppl: *have extreme difficulty with trans ppls pronouns for some fuckin reason*

[endsuppressionon]

Actually as a trans person who works in a cat shelter I have to say this isn't quite correct. People who misgender our cats correct themselves but usually forget and misgender them again. It really isn't so easy to just switch pronouns. I have trouble with some of the cats too. There's a cat named Flip who is a girl but occasionally I call her "he" because the name strikes me as masculine. I even have trouble with my trans friend sometimes, it took me months to get it right because his voice hadn't dropped yet and my brain associated the voice he had with "female". It really isn't that easy to use the correct pronouns.

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

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[endsuppressionon]

idk about the unconditional amnesty for all those arrested. I mean some of those people were looters and I don't see why someone who saw fit to use the chaos of the the whole event to steal should be pardoned.

[xweetox]

If you refuse to raise a male child in the future, you are the problem.

If you say “die cis scum” instead of making an effort for actual equality, you are the problem.

If you refuse to listen to a doctor, someone who has years of medical training, about your health situation because they are ‘fat shaming’ you, you are the problem.

If you choose to disrespect someone else due to the bullshit excuse of ‘priviledge’, you are the problem.

[emotionalbxbygirl]

This post gives me life

[500daysofevilexes-deactivated20]

JonTron is a comedian who makes fun of games online. He has a fanbase that rivals the most popular of YouTubers, and up until today very few people had anything negative to say about him.

At some point today, he used the word “retarded” to describe a PS4, and everything went to hell. If you asked Tumblr or Twitter, you’d have thought that the guy burned an orphanage to the ground.

Now here’s the deal: When you’re that famous, nothing gets past your fans. You can’t say “retarded” to describe anything or anyone (no one should, really). So JonTron made a mistake here and used an offensive word in passing to describe something frustrating. 

And the internet exploded. 

I want everyone to know that I’m not “siding” with JonTron here, because I’m not a fucking 12-year-old who “takes sides.” He made a mistake and didn’t publicly apologize for it, and that can be frustrating. However, how did all of this blow out of proportion anyway?

It goes back to the bizarre mentality of ganging up on people via the internet, hashtag hate, and clicktivism. JonTron is well-known and made a mistake, and it’s easier for us to blindly attack as a group than to attack as individuals. Countless studies have shown that human beings want to feel as if they belong, especially people who don’t normally feel like they belong anywhere (which is a majority of people of Tumblr). So they will join internet crusades in sorry attempts to take down YouTube celebrities because, you know, it’s a bandwagon that they can feel high and mighty while a part of.

I think that a large majority of social justice warriors suffer from the mentality of “I need to feel like I belong.” It’s why they knock so many innocent people down in awful ways while simultaneously boosting other lonely, desperate people up. 

In reality, however, this whole “attack on JonTron” did nothing but prove how ridiculous hashtag hate and clicktivism really is. People have been reblogging things like “I hope JonTron gets shipped up to Israel and gets blown up by a missile”, which is infinitely more offensive than JonTron’s original slip-up.

Why is it that responses and threats to people who have offended you are allowed to be more violent and offensive than the remark made by the person you’re attacking?

I can’t believe that I need to say this, but there are so many worse things happening in the world than an internet celebrity calling a video game system retarded.

To close, let me just show all of you clicktivists how you look to the rest of the world:

Way to save the world, guys.

[dflladdslo-blog]

I love everything about this As a disabilities rights activist, caregiver, and autistic woman myself I have to say a couple of things: First and foremost retarded is definitely a slur and very personal to many in the community. That said it’s a word and most who use it don’t mean harm, they use it out of ignorance not malice. When you blindly attack like many do you aren’t helping anyone. All you are doing is confusing people and causing more division between neurotypicals and non-neurotypicals.

[endsuppressionon]

This is perfect. If you tell someone that they should die or be killed or that they should kill themselves that just makes you a shitty person. You aren't a hero for your cause. You're just a bully.

[endsuppressionon]

just... omg. i was talking to someone who literally thinks that speeding in a vehicle isn't dangerous. what century do you live in, buddy? they think i'm "just so wrong [they] don’t even know where to start". just omg i hope you don't drive.

[tenaflyviper]

I will never understand bullying and hatred.  What do you even get out of it, besides making yourself look like a complete asshole?

"I hate this person."

"I hate this group of people."

Okay…and what is that supposed to tell us about you, exactly?  Are we supposed to be impressed?  Are we supposed to think highly of you because of it?  Because honestly, if I see someone spreading hatred against others, or putting others down so they can feel better about themselves, I’m going to be inclined to think a lot less of them.

[torinc-deactivated20181217]

[endsuppressionon]

OR

everyone could just stop telling cishet white men to die.

Why should anyone have to leave this site to avoid being bullied and sent death threats? Avoiding bullies doesn't stop bullying it just redirects it onto someone else. What tumblr users should do is stop calling each other names like "cishet scum" and "actual ____ trash" etc. coupled with death threats.

The worst is when someone who says something ignorant gets brutally attacked even when they realize their error and apologize for it. But tumblr is too blinded by rage to even bother checking to see if they have or not. I've lost count of how many times I've gone to a blog and seen they've taken down the original post and apologized and they're still being sent hate months later.

calm the fuck down. you're not a hero if you tell someone to die on tumblr. you're not doing anything for your race/gender/gender identity/sexual orientation if you bully someone off of tumblr or encourage them to kill themselves. you're just a shitty person.

[foxythepirate-fox-deactivated20]

Transphobia/homophobia:

Has gotten people killed

Has gotten people abused

Has gotten people kicked out of their house

Has gotten people raped

Cisphobia/heterophobia:

Has hurt a feeling or two on the internet

[endsuppressionon]

ok, this isn't aimed at all people who are cis/heterophobic because I understand that not everyone participates in the whole "die cishet scum" thing. but how does going around making posts and sending anon asks saying "die cishet scum" actually help anyone anywhere with anything?

Short answer: it doesn't.

I don't suddenly feel more comfortable because there's a bullshit movement on tumblr telling other tumblr users to die just because they're cis or het or both. Maybe you feel like you've accomplished something but you really haven't. You've just told someone to die and that's a really shitty thing to do to anyone regardless of their sexual orientation or identity.

You aren't helping yourself or other LGBTQIA people by telling cishets to die. It honestly just makes me and other LGBTQIA people and our supporters want nothing to do with the tumblr LGBTQIA community as a whole because it's just so spiteful and hateful. We are better than this. We don't need to tell them to die just for existing because that's what a lot of them do to us. We are better than that. Now, please let me be clear that it's absolutely ok to be upset at people who have hurt you or even the group of people who have hurt you as a whole. It's ok to hate or be afraid of people who want you to die for being who you are. What's not ok is going into someone's ask box and telling them to die. Plain and simple. It's wrong. It's wrong for them to do it and it's wrong for us.

[icyarguments]

I’m sorry, what was that you were saying? Something about M&Ms?

[megasumpex-deactivated20160710]

haha hilarious! disabled and neuroatypical people who have triggers and are uncomfortable by things and want them to be tagged are so funny!

[demukio-deactivated20180710]

I’m sorry but trigger warnings should be for those who actually have disorders and disabilities, or those who have actually experienced something horrific/traumatizing in their life and has something that could actually yknow trigger them not some blogger who just doesn’t like something, or someone who is just mildly uncomfortable by something.

[megasumpex-deactivated20160710]

triggers can be about everything and not all triggers are intense as others anyways so for some it can be uncomfortability rather than breakdowns um. so yeah this is kinda gross

[clockworkcrow]

like for me i don’t get the typical trigger reaction but i get intrusive thoughts and have the image repeating over and over and over in my head and the more i try not to think about it the worse it gets and like why would you force that on someone???

[endsuppressionon]

ok but that would be something that triggers you. maybe not into a full blown panic attack, but it's not just a mild discomfort to you. It's something that begins a cycle that gets worse no matter what you do.

i think op was talking more about people who get uncomfortable for 5 seconds over something and if they just scrolled away they'd get over it.

it's like me with spiders. they're gross and creepy and if i see one on my dash or irl my skin will crawl for a few min. but I can forget about it if I just scroll past and get on with my day. i don't go and throw a bitch fit at the person who reblogged it because I got mildly creeped out for a bit.

I think the problem isn't with people who have legitimate problems but with people who would go ahead and bitch about being temporarily uncomfortable by spiders like I am.