#have conversations

[melancholyghoul]

Fuck everyone who voted reform, you're doing exactly what they want you to do and they do not give a shit about you

I know labour or tories don't either, but we are NOT a two party system, and reform is NOT your only option

[todd--chavez]

When you look at posts on social media, it’s people putting out their own opinions. Most of the people who are going to see it are most likely only people who agree with it, creating an echo chamber. 

This is different. This is a dialogue. 

Watch it. This is how we should be doing things. 

[offmyterf]

Calling rational people terfs is a silencing tactic in the same way calling someone a coon is for disagreeing with the lyrical content of modern rap music. It is hyperbole! Stop being extra and see all sides of the equation. I consider myself left of center, but I cannot stand these crazy wingnuts (right and left) who have this dangerous obsession with absolutes and exaggerations. It's so freaking annoying. Most sane people dwell in the middle. Teetering too far to one end creates imbalance. Can we stop with the name-calling and actually have conversations?

[chaneajoyyy]

I want nothing more than black love that’s all

Lissen Black love is beautiful!

[slippingintostones]

i just don’t think that acknowledging how something is problematic diminishes any of the joy that you take out of a media object.

like, please talk to me about your favorite piece of childhood literature and how deeply flawed it is: tell me about the socio-cultural biases present in the text and how they reflected society then and when you read it and now, tell me about how your parents handled those problematic themes

(just because problematic is a buzzword doesn’t mean that it doesn’t still have meaning, and by bringing in a buzzword into a small conversation you can tie it into the larger cultural conversation without having to get into the weeds)

did you talk about how Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Pa was racist? did your parents tell you that the Calormene in Narnia were based on Indians and the English colonization of them? did they point out that there were racist caricatures in your cartoons? did they say that it was wrong? did they correct you when you repeated something you heard in looney tunes, and said that it was wrong then and it was wrong now?

you can like Little House on the Prairie, but refusing to acknowledge the racism (and sexism) makes you seem stupid (and racist), because it’s overt and obviously wrong. talk about how wrong it was and is! yes, it’s a story about a little girl growing up and exploring America. most of it is not racist, but there are a lot of racist elements because of how society was allowed to function then. we talk about how racism is systemic- this systemic racism is omnipresent in older books even if the story and plot isn’t “racist.”

get over yourself and talk about these things, even if “you’re not racist.” if you love a piece of media, you should know what it’s about. i wouldn’t want someone misconstruing my interest in something because im too chicken-shit to call out something wrong with it. media is flawed! even if it’s not racist—pretending something isn’t “problematic” because you don’t like cancel culture doesn’t erase the ways in which it’s problematic.

problematic by definition is a modifier. it doesn’t mean that every single aspect of the noun it’s modifying is problematic, but it’s a quick way to introduce the topic. some of you are babies.

[forthesakeofyourwolvelihood]

when will be the day when I don’t have to scream at the TV “JUST TALK TO THEM”.

[i-miss-garrus]

tbh you could yell at me for something i havent done and will never do and i would still get confused and upset before i ever got indignant