Reblog this or you hate kittens!

[lizbee]

One for the researchers: is the ease of reblogging on Tumblr facilitating the spreading of unfounded stories in the name of slacktivism?

I wonder, as tree_and_leaf casts doubt on the heartwarming banned books locker library story, and last week saw the return of the old "Australian government makes transgendered people go on sex offenders register to get hormone treatment" story that was debunked two years ago. 

On the other hand, the ease of reblogging on Tumblr also lets one see at a glance which of one's friends secretly think less of you for being religious*, which is convenient.

* Or at least, such is the logical conclusion to be drawn from their reblogging of tired old anti-Catholic jokes, devoid of any meaningful content beyond, "Christians! SO STUPID!"

Comments

[phosfate]

I grew up around the sort of Christians who think it's perfectly acceptable to bully and terrify people (especially children) into their way of life. Fundies and Dawkoids? Exactly the same.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world has people of faith and people who pass on it, and they somehow all manage to be decent human beings.