[ SECRET POST #2617 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2617 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

As a note, social justice is not a fandom. Tumblr itself is not a fandom.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But it IS their blog. Asking someone not to say something on their blog is a shitty thing to do no matter what your intentions are. There is no way to ask someone to conform to what you want them to say without insulting them. If you mean to inform them that something they've said has a meaning or connotations they might not be aware of or that they've offended you, then just do that. Otherwise just unfollow them.

[sarillia]

I'm just going to have to chalk this up to People Are Different. I really would not care at all if someone asked me to stop saying something. Either I agree with the argument behind it and do it or I disagree and ignore the request. It's really not a big deal. I'm just not going to understand why people get so insulted by this. It's not expecting them to conform to what I want because I don't expect them to do anything. It's a request for courtesy and they are free to do what they want.

[(Anonymous)]

I'd just like to point out a side note in this little discussion: Sometimes people use offensive language without knowing it. If I was doing so, I'd appreciate someone pointing it out so I could make an informed decision regarding any continued usage. Things like 'gypped', 'welsh', and 'dumb' are almost always known as being negative, but people rarely consider that they're actually insulting Gypsies, Welsh people, and mutes when they say them. I didn't even know dumb meant mute and not stupid until I was almost 20.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think I'm familiar with "welsh". What does it mean? Other than "from Wales", I mean.

[quantumreality]

It used to mean "to go back on a deal". It's not a very common usage these days, I don't think.

[diet_poison]

I have literally never heard that.

learned something new today

[(Anonymous)]

It's more commonly spelt welch which may be why the confusion.

[(Anonymous)]

I always thought that was 'welch'.

[(Anonymous)]

Telling someone that they've used an offensive word isn't the same thing as asking them not say it. That's what sarilla doesn't seem to get.

It boils down to "This word means this and is highly offensive," vs. "I don't want you to use this word." The first one is not only acceptable but often welcomed. The second one is rarely going to get a positive response and it's what sarilla says they do.

It's ironic that someone who's so hung up on word usage is completely oblivious to the fact that they're doing the exact same thing and on a larger scale. That particular netiquette is common knowledge whereas literal meanings of words whose common usage is something else isn't as widely known. It also applies to a much larger group of people than most of those types of words.

[(Anonymous)]

"It's my blog" arguments get kind of weird when it comes to Tumblr, though- the way the interface works, you can be not following someone or even actively blocking them and still have their content end up on your dash.

It's even more of a mess when it comes to tracked tags- if I post something about an actor or show or whatever and I tag it, I'm not just posting it for my followers to see, I'm effectively posting it to the dashes of every single person tracking that tag (or if the tag is a busy one, all of them who happen to be looking at approximately that time).

I don't entirely disagree with your point, but the distinction between personal/private blogging space and public space is a lot hazier than it is on sites like LJ/DW and I don't think that the rules of netiquette that evolved for those sorts of infrastructures are entirely adequate.