philosopherking1887:

the-mjolnir-owner:

jones-jessica:

#there are two kinds of people #the hopeful and the exhausted

There are three kinds of people: the hopeful, the exhausted, and the pragmatic.

I added a comment to this post 9 months ago, and for some reason people keep finding this version and reblogging it at odd intervals. I don’t understand how Tumblr works. Of more interest, however, is that some asshat (whom I have now blocked) replied to say, “and they’re all white?”

This kind of knee-jerk social justice point-scoring is part of what makes Tumblr so irritating. Yes, a lot of iconic characters in media are white, and there should be more diversity. But how on earth is it relevant to this (completely non-serious) point? Do you have a substantive criticism of this tripartite categorization of people according to their attitudes toward humanity? Is there an attitude or type missing that could only have been represented by a non-white character? Are they attacking the collaborative makers of the gif/photoset for not including a character of color to represent one of the attitudes? Are they attacking me for… honestly, I don’t know what?

Ordinarily I consider myself a pragmatist (philosophically, I mean), but right now I count myself among the exhausted.