@The Smiling Pony Well, I know Lampy was afraid of what would happen, at least xD
also, it’s tumblr-related, that means it’ll never run out of material until the site is forced to close and the brony hatedom decentralised.
@Turkeynomster I’m not really sure how Malcolm X relates to that, but there’s probably some sort of politically scientific process that could show he really had something going. If he had been running for president I know
I’D definitely vote for him, and I’m a freakin’ white
german. His “House Negro” speech is probably one of the greatest I’ve ever heard and someone like him is sorely needed on the anti-globalist/corporatist side of things, it applies too well to the fatcat shills who rise from poverty only to forget where they came from and crunch down on their necks harder than the original oppressing force. I have seen far too often, that the people who ‘really make it’ wind up committing worse excesses than the silver spoonfed ‘white cishet ol boys clubs’ that tumblrinas usually rail about.
And they can dodge all sorts of criticisms by shielding themselves with their former poverty, until they’ve
really made a huge mess of things. Kwame Kilpatrick and Ray Nagin being the two most notorious in recent US political history. They would present themselves as victims by ‘abducting street language’ and professing to ‘keep it real’ and their sucker voters bought it over and over. Marion Barry was pretty bad too but he at least had the excuse of serious mental problems caused by his lifelong drug abuse. Dude just straight up baked his brain. The voters that kept him in though…
Seriously Malcolm’s one of the few US speakers who can make me tear up with pride, I’ve felt like a li’l sambo boy in a southern baptist congregation listening to some of his longer speeches.
@Background Pony #C601 Yea, that’s usually how these kinds of movements get so strong right off. There’s a kind of shocked disbelief where people won’t question them, they will just be all “Oooookay. I will go stand over
there now” and be unable to fight them upon first exposure, because it’s just so utterly
ludicrous that you can’t believe what you’re hearing/reading.
@Archonix hahaha, vegans are the oldschool form of tumblr, before they realised throwing ‘sexism’ and ‘rape’ at everything was a far better shield than ‘but don’t you care about the cute animals?’ Go on Livejournal and search tags for anti-vegan groups, see what
that reminds you of, what the ‘internet social media culture’ looked like when PeTA was at its height. It’s not far off from tumblr, just replace all things about sex with things about animals. At one point the animal rights movement was so bad that a government study found only 15% of accusations leveled at companies for animal abuse or unethical animal testing were wholly true, and a scant 5% more half-truths. A
lot of PeTA’s slaughterhouse videos are staged, or real-because-I-let-this-company-hire-me-so-I-can-fuck-up-on-camera, where they would ‘plant’ their members at food processing plants and pretend they were longtime workers following obsolete or abusive company policies.
The only really really big difference is that Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty is the only one I can think of that really hit tumblr-levels of extremism, and that’s more due to the rest of the movement being very tech-unsaavy hippies than anything else. When you look at how they put their arguments together and then presented them (by pretty much stuffing them in a bag of dogshit, lighting it on fire, and throwing it at your children) it’s
really similar to the kind of shit tumblr does not. Tumblr is just what happens when that same mentality hits indoctrinated kiddies who have access to do-this-at-a-push apps and scripts, while back in the 90s you still had to know
something about computers to get shit done. These mobile devices really did kill civilised discourse and language in the western hemisphere after all, just not the way we thought it would.