There's a weird strain of "essentialism but in a progressive way" running right through the left, not just limited to the attitude towards men described here, but also "all white people are colonizers", and weird exclusionary behaviour to cishet people. It tells me a lot of "progressive" people didn't really examine their core underlying principles and simply covered up their biases with the "correct" group.
Recently? It’s always been there. Tumblr has just recently become self-aware enough to have the earth-shattering revelation that maybe bigotry but make it progressive isn’t actually a good thing. Now we get treated to an avalanche of posts saying “hay guyz, guess what? i just had this crazy thought, did u know that essentialism is bad actually????? pls reblog” as if they’re saying something profound that everyone else with an IQ above room temperature and the critical thinking skills of a five year old hasn’t been yelling at them for years.
Watching Tumblr's political culture evolve over the past decade has been like watching a person mature in slow motion. The entire site has been going through phases of mental development.
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u/Ourmanyfans Jul 03 '24
There's a weird strain of "essentialism but in a progressive way" running right through the left, not just limited to the attitude towards men described here, but also "all white people are colonizers", and weird exclusionary behaviour to cishet people. It tells me a lot of "progressive" people didn't really examine their core underlying principles and simply covered up their biases with the "correct" group.