Paryah

IDK maybe it's because I'm older and have been around for the birth of 4ch*n and Reddit and shit but you cannot pretend to be invested in left politics or feminism and not be invested in not spreading material and media that is a wellspring of casual hate https://twitter.com/ClaudiaBrown100/status/1218195423627640833 …

memes, like EVERY OTHER FORM of mass media, COME from somewhere. They are MADE by people. They have a message and freight in meaning. They are just image jokes. And jokes always have a context and expectations they are subverting. It's not "meme policing" to care about this shit

Guess what, to be a leftist or a feminist, ESPECIALLY A FEMINIST, you have to /care/ about this shit. It makes you supremely "uncool" but guess what, caring about shit is part and parcel of this whole fucking thing esp if you materially benefit from privilege

therefore I am not 100% surprised Peter Coffin is included in this tweet thread because he's masquerading at being a serious leftist but you cannot have your profile be "Youtube Feminist" and get mad that people pointed out you used ableist memes from chan/Reddit spaces

The memes were already connected to ableism in the first place, Claudia

I'm sure one will survive without using rage faces

A lot of people use meme images that come from some shitty places and the constant media churn and content theft means a lot of people don't vet where it came from or what it indicates!