#'the news is biased and inaccurate' yeah i see you've done a lot of media literacy training for yourselves on tumblr dot gov

[crimeronan]

i think the wildest cognitive dissonance i've had re: the realization that the average (?) tumblr user Truly Does Not Look At The News was when like. people started bitching and moaning that "everyone" was focusing on crimew being a trans catgirl anarchist without actually looking at the importance of her work in leaking the no-fly list.

when earlier that day i had clicked on a top CNN headline reading something like "hacktivist leaks US no-fly list, exposes racial discrimination, islamophobia, bans on two-year-old children"

(i don't remember the exact wording. i know it was About The Important Shit.)

and then i'd logged onto tumblr. and only THEN found out that the hacktivist was a trans catgirl anarchist. CNN's early reporting did not give A Fuck about that At All, because THERE WAS A LOT TO SAY ABOUT THE NO-FLY LIST.

so imagine my surprise scrolling thru tumblr's meme coverage like

me: oh shit the no-fly list leaker who exposed all that heinous shit is a trans catgirl? good for her that's delightful :)

a sizeable portion of tumblr's population, for some fucking reason: nobody would come to my house and click on article links for me so now i'm mad that my memes don't double as exhaustively researched current event bulletins :( HOW DARE THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA SILENCE US >:(

#not to be condescending but like are you guys fucking serious. #'the news is biased and inaccurate' yeah i see you've done a lot of media literacy training for yourselves on tumblr dot gov #and are super informed about everything all the time. #meow. sorry. this is catty and mean. BUT LIKE. I FELT LIKE I WAS GOING OUT OF MY FUCKING MIIIINDDDD #IT WAS IN THE NEWS EVERYONE WAS TALKING ABOUT IT. THAT'S WHAT THE MAINSTREAM PUBLIC FOUND OUT #YOU ARE IN AN EXTREMELY SPECIFIC ECHO CHAMBER PLEASSEEEEEE LOOK AT STUFF OUTSIDE TUMBLR O N C E #OH MY GODDDDDDD #am i crazy??? like am i insane??? please fucking tell me other people also saw that it was in fact covered in the news???? #I FEEL LIKE I MADE THAT MEMORY UP WHOLESALE OR SOMETHING ????? BY THE WAY TUMBLR USERS WERE FKCN TALKING?? #politics #american politics #i have a migraine. i'll become less of a bitch when i'm done having a migraine probably.