Reblog if you’re black tumblr.

decodethefallenmoon:

antikoreaboo:

eo-akes:

ablacknation:

You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and you’re for us.

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Someone who’s black or supports black people and their human rights. it literally says that in the description. “You don’t have to be black, it just means you support us, you stand by us and you’re for us.” 

solitarelee:

the-four-humors:

ahaze:

bankuei:

solitarelee:

Another thing I’m salty as fuck about re: youtube 

Youtubers as a collective will go ON AND ON about how this is their job and they make money doing it, and how they deserve respect (they do). But then the second any group begins to hold them to the same standards we would hold a professional in any other job, suddenly they’re screeching about how “GOSH IT’S JUST VIDEOS ON THE INTERNET CALM DOWN Y’ALL.” 

You can have it one way or the other. Either your profession deserves respect or you’re a bunch of yahoos on the internet and should be treated and derided as such. You can’t be serious professionals when you want respect and then helpless nobodies when the tides turn against you. Use some of that ad revenue on a PR guy if you’re that nervous about your inability to keep your mouth shut and not make racism the butt of your jokes. 

Like, I’ve got fucking two thousand readers and I treat my writing/business account with more seriousness than people who have three to sixteen million viewers. I make a tiny fraction of what they do and I treat my position with more dignity and my supporters and fans with more respect. 

If you’re going to be a celebrity, realize what that fucking means and be a fucking adult when people treat you like the actual celebrities with actual reach and influence that you are. And if this is going to be something you get paid for? That makes it a job. And I guarantee that if someone brings your manager at McDonalds a video of you shouting racial slurs at a customer? Your ass would be fired there, too. 

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Every single geek media I’ve seen people pull this bullshit.  Comics. Videogames. Tabletop RPGs. Anything.  

When you point out they’re doing something fucked up “Oh, it’s not that serious, you’re not the target audience, etc.” but then you point it out and tell people to put their money elsewhere, suddenly, “OMG, how could you do this? You’re starving me and my children, etc.”   

I manage to not pop off at my work place every day even when people are pushing all my patience beyond it’s limit to make my rent, maybe you can undertake the oh so gargantuan effort of not hatemongering in your work? 

It’s so funny how folks will tell us they’re media experts and that’s why they should get paid but once you point out all the obvious ways they’re being shitty suddenly they’re completely clueless and new to the craft and how dare you expect them to know anything about their field?

This is such a good point.
And just like in other jobs, we all know and have to deal with annoying, entitled customers who DO ask for more than they should ask for, have annoying bosses,… this is also not a problem only celebrities have to deal with. There are things a customer is allowed to expect, and some requests that are ridiculous… we all have to deal with that bullshit.

There’s this really good article from 2003 called ‘The Five Geek Social Fallacies’ that actually addresses this issue. There’s this long-standing idea that among geek circles, criticism is bad, ostracizes are evil, and true ‘friends’/fans will accept you at all times even if you’re being a complete shitheel. 

The origins of GSF2 [Friends Accept Me As I Am] are closely allied to the origins of GSF1 [Ostracizers are Evil]. After being victimized by social exclusion, many geeks experience their “tribe” as a non-judgmental haven where they can take refuge from the cruel world outside.

This seems straightforward and reasonable. It’s important for people to have a space where they feel safe and accepted. Ideally, everyone’s social group would be a safe haven. When people who rely too heavily upon that refuge feel insecure in that haven, however, a commendable ideal mutates into its pathological form, GSF2.

Carriers of GSF2 believe that since a friend accepts them as they are, anyone who criticizes them is not their friend. Thus, they can’t take criticism from friends – criticism is experienced as a treacherous betrayal of the friendship, no matter how inappropriate the criticized behavior may be.

Conversely, most carriers will never criticize a friend under any circumstances; the duty to be supportive trumps any impulse to point out unacceptable behavior.

This article, again, is 15 years old. 

Granted, it talks more about the inability of geeks to expel awful people from a small social circle (like, say, a D&D group’s willingness to put up with that guy who makes the only girl in the group super uncomfortable) but it’s pretty clear how the social fallacies of geekdom have given rise to our current social climate. 

Oh wow! You know, I’ve seen the Geek Social Fallacies discussed at length and talked about, but I’d never seen the original article! Thanks for linking this. 

nicesuggestions:

me and you and a field of flowers

90sgrl:

my hidden talents include romanticising everything, oversharing, crying, and overthinking 

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honestly i miss eating him out all the TIME FUCK