Remove the White Supremacists

thespiralpath:

Dear Tumblr @staff, 

In light of the recent white supremacist terror attacks worldwide: 

We, the Tumblr community (your community), implore you to change your previously passive policy against white supremacy and white nationalist extremist ideologies. 

Every major news station, social expert, and experts on extremist ideologies have identified that these extremist ideologies are spread and grown on online platforms: specifically social platforms. They have identified the major ways that communities can confront these violent extremist views; the biggest one being for social media groups to actually start removing user accounts that post and spread extremist white nationalist dog whistles, memes, and rhetoric.

Your users are begging for your help in stemming the rising tide of xenophobic violence. As has become evident by the recent terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, these ideologies don’t begin with violence, but with strategically spouted rhetoric and hate speech that riles up others who are vulnerable to being persuaded by their subtle methods. 

Please. 
If you support the safety of your users. 
If you support the Muslim Community.
If you support the Jewish Community. 
If you support People of Color. 
If you support your users regardless of color or religious background. 


Then it’s time to start taking a proactive stance against extremist white supremacist and nationalist ideologies and remove them. 

The signatures and reblogs below should serve to show you how strongly your userbase feels about this. We all stand for a world without Hate. Do you?

(via lady-iwilltouchyouwithmymind-de)

Source: thespiralpath

crinaprida:

Thoughts about Day 1 of “Pure” Tumblr

First day of the “new and improved” Tumblr seems to have found a ghost town here. I could still see nipples, significantly fewer than per usual, but still.

It seems to me that a good number of blogs will continue as before, because the photographers were less into portraits and human form. That’s not very reassuring, because the community which I and people like me have been used to, included both figurative, abstract, street, conceptual art. Take one big chunk out of it, the machine can still work, but a lot of emotion and honest interaction between us is going to vanish. We’ll see how the community adjusts to the “new order”. I’m not optimistic, and I already miss the eclectic scroll through my feed. Migration to Ello or similar isn’t going to fix the major…tumble of Tumblr, because it’s impossible to just transplant an online community to a different web address. I, for one, am going to check back with this place for a while, but the whole thing feels like a painful and ugly post-divorce settlement. We’re left bitter, frustrated, and without much of a clue to what’s next.

Congrats, Tumblr, on a job…done.