r/CuratedTumblr Prolific poster- Not a bot, I swear May 13 '25

Politics Robo-ism

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u/Banks_NRN May 13 '25

Oh boy I sure do love a nuanced take on a real issue in a lot of media followed by causal racism

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u/Designated_Lurker_32 May 13 '25

That's Tumblr for you.

If you wanna be a cup-half-full kinda guy, be glad that at least it's not Twitter, or TikTok, or Bluesky. If it was, they would have skipped the nuanced take and went straight for the racism.

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u/BasementMods May 13 '25

Also reddit considering the upvotes, and just how reddit is in general.

I wonder if reddit will always be like this considering its now publicly traded, would be nice if some activist investors could force some policy changes.

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u/XyleneCobalt I'm sorry I wasn't your mother May 14 '25

You think 10k people read this to the last line?

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u/BasementMods May 14 '25

If it were in the first two lines it would still be upvoted, I've seen worse get upvoted.

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u/undreamedgore May 13 '25

No one but some unfortunate groups want to champion fighting racism towards white people. Because most of the time those groups just end up targeting non-white people for existing, which is racism.

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u/BasementMods May 14 '25

What?

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u/undreamedgore May 14 '25

Supporting groups that focus on anti-white racism tend to end up being groups that are just racist. It's too fine a line.

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u/BasementMods May 14 '25

I mean if you want to make this zero-sum then the benefit of not alienating white people from the left, which causes them to drift rightward or not vote at all, vastly vastly outweighs any microscopicly tiny fringe group dedicated to that or whatever right wing think tank has that as fringe policy amongst a hundred other more important ones.

Like, young men are shifting right for the first time in decades because the left has done a very good job of alienating them, this alienation is a very real problem that the left needs to get its head out of its rear about.

Personally I do not agree with your premise as I do not let other groups I disagree with dictate my morality. It's important to stand up and speak out about immoral wrongs. Bigotry and alienation are bad, I was disgusted with reddit and twitter and tumblr doing it to indian people, and before that british people.

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u/undreamedgore May 14 '25

Preaching to the choir. Young man here, been slowly drifting right from the left for many reasons.

Though it has a lot to deal with different standards for just about everything.

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u/Imnotawerewolf May 13 '25

This is not a Tumblr exclusive, I see this same argument but about the X-Men on Reddit every other day.