But Its Definitely Another Concerning Trend Ive Noticed - Tumblr Posts

Sorry, I’m also going to drag these two comments into this because I’ve seen a lot of this type of rhetoric on both TikTok and tumblr, so it’s another thing to be consciously and deliberately aware of when critiquing online trends/their meanings and origins. We need to remember that prejudice (purposeful or not) is prejudice, even if you tack on that you’re only referring to the white queer/disabled/poor/etc people. This isn’t coming after the op specifically, because they’re far from the only one guilty of this, but it is definitely something for anyone who finds themselves specifying that they’re talking about the white (or cis or male or whatever) sub-sect of any demographic to really look internally as to why you’re doing that.

White people as a whole have become a very popular scapegoat in online and irl social justice discourse, and regardless of historical roles, that’s always a very dicey path to head down. It’s always easy to blame someone else for a social issue, and no demographic is immune to that urge or to being the perpetrators of shifting responsibility for their own comfort and absolvement of guilt

I think it needs to be said cause currently I'm not seeing anybody mentioning it or providing context, but the whole 'girl dinner' meme was created by a black woman on tiktok and the joke was that within her video she's just finding a random assortment of lunch meat and crackers and shit. the joke was about like being broke and having to scrounge up a meal in the same vein as the ice soup meme. but then in typical fashion, white women stole it and co-opted, particularly the coquette dollete girl interrupted female hysteria types and mutated it into a gender essentialism ed thing. it was never meant to be about disordered eating.