Just because Tumblr is, for a large part, its own little world, are you purporting that the values are insignificant and pointless?

No, not exactly. I meant that Tumblr is a tiny insular world, an echo chamber full of parrots parroting back and forth to each other the accepted Tumblr orthodoxy on white males, feminism, terrorism, what have you. Pick a topic, there is an accepted Tumblr orthodox view. I like Tumblr, but it reeks of elitism sometimes. I’m not making any judgments on which values are right or wrong, but it is very obvious that the world “out there” does not share Tumblr orthodoxy. And the world “out there” is much, much bigger than Tumblr, which is striking me more and more as a self-righteous, loud-mouthed tiny little world doing, I think, its pet causes more harm than good.

Not all Tumblrs are SJW types, but many are influenced by them, parroting (reblogging) their views. I like the idea of critical thinking. I like the idea of not everybody believing the same exact things, and then, somehow, being civil to each other. I realize now that who I’m following and who follows and interacts with me makes my Tumblr experience what it is. If I post an opinion about something and someone unfollows me for it, how in the world can that not be a good thing? I don’t want any parrots.

Thanks for playing along!