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Actual bill name: Stop the Sexualization of Children Act.

Purported purpose: "to protect children from being exposed to explicit material in the classroom".

How it's sold in the press: "Ban strippers and porn from classrooms!"

Actual text of the bill: Expands the meaning of "sexually explicit content" to include the words "or involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism".

Not and. Or. Meaning "involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism" is in and of itself enough to be classified as sexually explicit.

If you want to fight:

To get you to stop thinking, that's why. Many on the right really are that stupid, but the people behind the headlines - and making sure to get those headlines in front of your eyes - are not.

And if you look at political literature from English speaking North America and writing by both American and British slaves and former slaves from the time of the first British North American colonies all the way to political and abolitionist literature right up until the end of the war, from poetry to sermons to political speeches, it is so obvious that the war was about the wealthy class of the southern states wanting the right to own other human beings.

And if you read political literature and literature concerned with the black experience in the United States from reconstruction to the present, it’s clear that we are still living with the consequences of that 300+ year long political debate.

This isn’t just black history or only concerning black descendants of enslaved Americans. This was a deep system that people of all backgrounds in this country and in other countries associated with it were involved in or affected by. And those of us still living in the US and those countries closely aligned with it are still living with the consequences and aftermath of that system and the reactions to its dismantling today.

This is why it pisses me off when I still hear people say the US civil war was about states rights.

--no state in the Confederacy would be allowed to be a free state (so much for states' rights!)

--if two states had different laws regarding freed or escaped slaves, the one with the stricter laws won out every time

And THEN, during the war, when Lincoln was like "dude you guys could end this today. You could literally just stop having slaves" Jefferson Davis

Jefferson fucking Davis

Said he had no problem doing that because he'd done more for enslaved people than they'd ever done for him

And then he proceeded to not do it

***Because they don’t know HOW to read

***Because they’re not ALLOWED to read

***Because they weren’t TAUGHT to read

***Because the generation BEFORE THEM were never taught HOW TO READ or how to TEACH READING

***Because we DON’T VALUE INTELLECTUAL PURSUITS

***Because our society prioritizes PRODUCTIVITY over QUALITY OF LIFE

Sick of the “yall are stupid because you’re lazy” narrative. Obviously people with no time no family no money no books no education no perspective no respect no options no support no mentors aren’t perpetually disseminating themes of Othello on the fly.

People aren’t stupid, reading isn’t the peak proof of intelligence, and society isn’t on a decline because poor people are poor.

You’re confusing a symptom for a cause

the left, original way of displaying notes shows exactly how many notes the post has from every single interaction: reblogs, likes and replies. but the right, post-update way only shows direct interactions on that version of the post. so every person who saw this post from Tumblr and reblogged it not from them, but someone else...or replied to it, or liked it...that doesn't show to the OP. it's counted as separate notes.

I'm the OP. I'm making this post. If you like, comment, reblog (without comment) on this post, then I'm the one who will see all those notes in my activity page.

However...

If you reblog (with comment), I will get a notification that you did that, but any likes/comments/reblogs (without comment) you get on that reblog will only be shown to you. As OP I won't see them.

If someone adds a reblog (with comment) to your reblog...as OP I won't see that. I won't see any of those notes in my activity page.

Basically, if someone with a large following makes a comment, then they will get all the notes and OP will see nothing. If OP has said something silly because they're, y'know, 21 and it happens, and then someone reblogs it onto the dash of someone with a large following who then dunks on them for fun? OP doesn't see it, doesn't get notes for it, but they're gonna get the harrassment for it in their inbox.

If I, someone with a 5 digit follower count, reblog something to correct misinformation on Ancient Egypt, then OP will never see it unless it was on the original post, but I will continue to get notes on that post even though it's not my post. If I reblog fanart, or just art in general, with a comment like 'Oh this is so lovely!' then OP will not see any of the notes from people reblogging it from me. They'll only see my reblog. So it's possible for an art post by someone else to have 200 notes for them, but 9000 for someone who reblogs it with a comment, and the OP artist will have no idea it's been seen by that many people.

It's killing blow to the community we've built here, by someone higher up who doesn't understand that being able to see all the comments and reblogs is what makes this site the place I keep coming back to.

That's what sucks.

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.