First I am going to say that I am not being “offensive” and that if you read it as offensive, then there is something wrong with you.
Next, I am going to jump head first into a racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic rant. I will refer to groups as “those people” or “others”. I will minimize their concerns while also implying that they’re just too dimwitted to get the brilliance of my argument. I’ll rely on ideals of America, Freedom, and Justice and I will not acknowledge that these ideals are, by and large, available in full only to white, cis males.
Then, I am going to make this even more all about me. I talk about how I can’t be racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic because I have a friend who is a person of color/a woman/an individual who identifies with a QUILTBAG label/a trans person. I say that if you question me, then you’re really the one who is racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and I call upon a logical fallacy to back me up.
Finally, I tell people not to reblog or to publicly discuss my argument. If I see that my argument does not hold water and/or that many, many people disagree, I will delete the post and act like you all just didn’t get it.
Let’s keep it civil, even though I refuse to acknowledge you as my equal!
Normally I don’t dignify Tumblr fuckery with a response, but I feel compelled to do so here because I want to give ailanthusaltissima the benefit of the doubt, while also pushing back on the social attitudes embodied in her post.
I will respond to her fatuous points with well reasoned commentary backed by statistics, and will further argue that hiding behind claims like ‘tee hee, I don’t really mean to be offensive’ is a luxury for people who are not constantly forced to defend their very existence.
I’ll close with a pithy and ~deep~ quote from a book I haven’t actually read. Though I claim not to check reblog notes, I will be checking throughout the day and taking note of who didn’t reblog me; clearly, they are in tacit agreement with ailunthusaltissima and need to be added to the enemies list.
I don’t have anything to add to this other than an animated GIF, which I include without a text description, to demonstrate my feelings about the above.
And after all arguments have been parsed and it is clear for everyone that I have stepped out of line, I will announce that I am leaving Tumblr, closing my blog entirely and that it is your loss altogether because, even though I do not belong to any of the groups discussed, nobody knows their issues better than me.
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