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if i was my uneducated ignorant little 14 year old self y’all would have ripped me a new one and probably scarred me for life

Check their blog/content/about me. How old is this person? If they are still in HS/under 18, remember that this person is a minor and needs guidance, not chastising.

Second, look at a little bit of their tumblr. Are they going through serious mental health struggles(Depression/suicide/etc)? Please take this into account when formulating your response.

Finally, evaluate why you follow this person to begin with. Now, if you are 19 and following a 17 year old, then you are within the same age bracket and can talk to this person as if you are talking to a peer. 12/13/14/15 year olds are still formulating their opinions of the world, and you being nasty to them isn’t going to help inform their opinion. So why do you follow a 13 year old? Would you hang out with this person IRL if you two were in the same location? Would it be weird(mentally and physically) for you to hang out with this person? If the answer is yes, unfollow their blog and step away from the situation.

NOW, here is how you formulate a PRIVATE ASK OR FAN MAIL to someone who has said or done something problematic. Shaming them publicly for ignorance/limited world view is a great way to close someone off or harass them, and you don’t want to do either of these things. Online bullying can take on many forms, and being an adult harassing a young teenager adds to online culture problems

“Hey! I noticed that you reblogged (x). I wanted to let you know that this is really hurtful to (x) group, and it is offensive because of (x) reason. I just wanted to let you know because you may not have known. Thank you for receiving this message and listening”

This points out what is wrong, why it is wrong, and does not demand anything of the person you are sending this message to

And then you step away. Do not send this person 20 asks. Do not threaten them. STEP AWAY.

If they engage, respond, or ask further questions, answer them kindly. If they don’t respond, don’t continue to engage.

Here’s the thing: 

Out of the 4,140 institutions of higher education in America, 1,845 of them are private, 4-year colleges (44.5%)

Yet those private colleges only enroll ~24% of higher education students in America

The Ivy League is a tiny fraction of all the private 4-years in the nation

Total enrollment in the Ivy League is about 66,000 undergraduate students. That’s 0.377% of all higher education students 

The reason Ivies are such a big deal is literally just, because of their age and their selectivity, basically, their “brand,” they are able to solicit lots of donations, not just from alums, but from people and corporations around the world*

*This is definitely an oversimplification and there’s other stuff involved, including things like patents and research grants and stuff, but I don’t want to get into that

Those donations make up what is called an endowment. Harvard’s endowment, for instance, is larger than the GDP of half the countries in the world

Unless something bad happens, universities don’t really like to touch endowments, but that is more possible for some institutions than others. Institutions like those in the Ivy League basically just live off the interest they make, which is enough for them to offer pretty stelar financial aid packages to students and do other fancy things

Many of the other 4-year private institutions in the country have not been doing so well because of the economy and could go bankrupt in the next decade or two 

Meanwhile, community colleges and public institutions educate the VAST majority of the nation’s students 

So basically, as it I see it, the Ivy League perpetuates privilege for a very tiny fraction of students. And those schools help an even tinier fraction of students break into privilege 

All the action is really happening at the public institutions 

That’s why I want to work at one.