social justice is not a bad thing, full fucking stop.
i’m getting really fucking tired of ‘social justice bloggers’ being blamed for ruining people’s fun
when your fun stems from oppressive, dehumanising ideologies and upholds the practice of further marginalising people, there’s a bigger issue at hand than hurt feelings that people don’t like your favorites
like, i don’t know why you would want to defend a system of oppression and privilege and the works over the people who suffer under that system, who are actively and passively oppressed and even killed by the system, who get the brunt of the microaggressions and have to live their daily lives enduring those microaggressions that exist outside of tumblr
fandom, you are gross as shit for doing this
privileged folk, you are gross as shit for doing this
calling someone out for their bullshit is not bullying, it’s not even to say your a bad person; it’s a signal for you to acknowledge the internalised isms you have as being a product of a society that institutionalises isms
these social justice bloggers - whether or not they identify as such (while we’re at it, stop shoving these labels onto people, stop shoving words into people’s mouths, stop misconstruing people’s actions when they call you out on your fuck ups) - are not seeking out these offensive things and getting angry just for the sake of it. these offensive things have riled up visceral indignation as a result of wanting to find peace and fun in safe places but instead get slapped in the face by unsafe, offensive things that you may think are innocuous but aren’t because your privileges afford you that ignorance to not see those things as anything but innocuous/non-offensive. so instead of saying ‘i’m sorry you got offended’ or ‘you’re too sensitive’ or ‘i’m sick of social justice bloggers getting offended by literally everything,’ how about you try to understand WHY someone got offended, WHY they were hurt by your actions, WHY a particular thing is drenched with microaggressions and isms
but you’d rather get angry that someone pointed out your fuck up, i see
you’d rather play the victim in this case…thanks for derailing and making it about you
unlearning bigotry is a difficult task to uptake, but wouldn’t you rather unlearn isms and oppressions than participate in fun that feeds into the systems that ostracise, endanger, erase, and marginalise folks who are not white, cis, wealthy, and men?
if you’re one of those folks that like to throw around social justice like it’s a pejorative rather than a form of social activism to fight and challenge against social injustices of varying types, regardless if it deals with media and media representation and the way media remains inflexible in their oppressive practices that are normalised by society and therefore by extension you normalise those practices
then it says a whole lot about your character and how little you empathise people and in actuality you’re not a nice person, you’re in fact pathetic excuses of human decency
(Source: jellyfishverse)
