me when a customer asks why there's a funko pop with their likeness and full name that we refuse to sell to them
Some dude in 2020: You should not judge a historical figure, a man from the past, by the modern ethics! He was a product of his time. 500 years ago his actions were completely normal! It’s present-ism, we can’t judge… bla-bla-bla…
People from 500 years ago: Oh my, this guy is such a bastard, a genocidal butcher, a total piece of garbage. Let’s keep records of this douche so people from the future shall hate him too.
Columbus’s crew were writing about what a genocidal monster he was. There were mutinies and uprisings by his crews and colonists constantly. If his contemporaries were willing to risk the ire of the queen of Spain to oppose him, we have every right to call him out on it too.
And you know who else opposed him? Indigenous Americans. Africans who were trafficked in the slave trade he helped create
“This was normal in that time period” always leaves out the implicit assumption “… for white people”. It completely fails to acknowledge how the victims of these atrocities felt
And there has never been a point in history without people who I could sit down and talk to and come to a general political agreement with, who opposed all forms of hierarchy and fought for liberation. Even among colonial and imperial societies. By no means was it impossible at the time to be better than they were - so they have no excuse
Guys I found the only good thing on Facebook.
Update:
Oh fuck they’re inclusive ants, too?!?
Image Descriptions
[Image 1: A Screenshot of an invitation to a Facebook group named: “A group where we all pretend to be ants in an ant colony.” Under that is a post in the group that reads: “We reached the center of the Earth. Now what?” Four people commented saying one word each in this order: scurry, dig, work, melt. These words are in capital letters and have spaces between each letter.]
[Image 2: Another Screenshot of a post in the group that reads: “It has come to my attention that when we put the spaces in-between letters it makes it difficult for visually impaired ants to know what we’re saying and so I was wondering if we could try to make this group more accessible for them. (The text to voice can’t figure out what we are saying with the spaces) (Picture of an ant for attention)” This text is then followed by a close up picture of an ant.]
[Image 3: A screenshot of some
comments on the post in Image 2. Five people commented: adapt, adapt,
inclusion, love adapt, adapt. These words are in capital letters and
have no spaces between the letters.]
End of IDs.
Please do not reblog this post without image descriptions! The irony of sharing undescribed images that talk about inclusivity for the visually impaired is… Painful.
I’m in this group!! It’s great!
Dont let my intelligence distract from the fact that I'm stupid
High int and low wis
Or high wis and low int?
High int and high wis but terrible, TERRIBLE luck on the rolls
High int and wis, but with permanent disadvantage.
DING DING DING, BABY
[ID: tag reading, “#wait that’s just adhd” /END ID]
listen I’m just dreading the day when they’re gonna screw us over and close this site for lack of use. you already see people talking like “oh I miss Tumblr” all the time like we’re not still RIGHT FREAKING HERE enjoying our fandom shenanigans in real time…like half the memes on Twitter and Insta are just reposted from here??? uh?? what is that saying???
like I KNOW that Tumblr usage has plummeted and half the blogs that follow me are probably dormant by now. I know that. but if other social media outlets aren’t gonna learn a thing or two about hiding follower counts or allowing tag-based organization or ACTUALLY SHOWING POSTS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER FOR ONCE, then I don’t want them touching this one
seriously what on EARTH are you talking about
Speaking of lack of use… Guys, please reblog stuff. That is how this website works - unlike something like instagram, which has all sorts of metrics that influence how a post disseminates based on likes, the only way for someone to see a post here on tumblr, other than from the tags, is if someone else reblogs it. Not just in an “it helps the artist” way (although that too), but in a, “this participation is how we keep this website alive” way. Likes make the poster feel good (do them too, if you want!), but the great thing about Tumblr is that is it not (is less?) beholden to those algorithmic metrics that ru(i)n all the other sites, and the only way we have that is because we reblog posts, so tumblr doesn’t have to do it.
“reblogs aren’t important you’re just whiny”
yeah because when you see this
tell me you don’t get annoyed.
tumblr’s algorithm only cares about posts that are reblogged, it doesn’t count likes. posts don’t get promoted or circulated when they only have likes (the way instagram functions), only reblogs matter for increasing reach on tumblr as a platform.
support content creators.
like y'all are fuckin killing tumblr (& content creation) but okay
you think that’s not a lot of notes? that’s cute.
but yeah, tumblr’s system definitely doesn’t advantage non-popular artists, but there’s a big problem from within the community too. i have over 400 followers and i consider myself lucky when more than 2 people reblog my art, so imagine how much worse it is for people with even less followers.
reblog content creators, guys. liking posts doesn’t do anything.
THIS!
Reblog art and writing.
Seriously if you like something, SPREAD IT!
Sorry to break it to you but they’re all right. Tumblr isn’t Instagram. Likes don’t get us anywhere. Everybody’s “drop a heart and keep scrolling” mentality has murdered all of my original content sideblogs. Each and every one of them.
don’t like this post. spread it
Starbucks funded the police in Atlanta so here’s their recipes
do you have a link to the images cause they’re a little small and compressed
Found these when going through the notes, so unashamedly reblogging.
This is bullshit. I’m sorry, I’m not looking to start an argument, but this is how petty we are? Yes, there are shitty police officers, but fucking hell, 99% of them are trying to help make the world a safe place to be in. Yes, they need to change, but defunding them is going to do more harm than good.
You like them boots huh?
I’m just going to leave this here…
im on mobile, can someone make one that adds “jews”
Done
Cowards won’t reblog this version.