If one could show that this hypothesis is supported by evidence rather than refuted, I am more than willing to say that the Stuff(tm) happening on tumblr really isn't fanwank at all but, instead, that it is yet another front of the much larger culture battle is being played out across America and the geocultural Western world. And I suspect you and your anth friend have already thought this?
As for the "single broad brush and fresh and cleansed coat of paint" comment, if we assume that white-on-white policing is what all this is primarily about, clearly the Solution(tm) is as simple as woke white folk enlightening everyone on how to properly behave. [/insert dramatically winking emoticon]
Because who owns that discourse?
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Tumblr tags: staking out ownership of one's words? Tumblr body comments: stepped on the soap box while everyone captures videos of it?
I have more to say about this at another time (another place) but now I am so late on my lunch break -- really late.
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Date: 2016-10-06 08:49 pm (UTC)If one could show that this hypothesis is supported by evidence rather than refuted, I am more than willing to say that the Stuff(tm) happening on tumblr really isn't fanwank at all but, instead, that it is yet another front of the much larger culture battle is being played out across America and the geocultural Western world. And I suspect you and your anth friend have already thought this?
As for the "single broad brush and fresh and cleansed coat of paint" comment, if we assume that white-on-white policing is what all this is primarily about, clearly the Solution(tm) is as simple as woke white folk enlightening everyone on how to properly behave. [/insert dramatically winking emoticon]
Because who owns that discourse?
...
Tumblr tags: staking out ownership of one's words?
Tumblr body comments: stepped on the soap box while everyone captures videos of it?
I have more to say about this at another time (another place) but now I am so late on my lunch break -- really late.