#idk there was some angry psa about it forever ago | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

drewsaturday · 11 months

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there is a very weird specific way i feel when i see people who are very passionate about a very niche thing get so extremely annoyed about average people making mistakes about it so they make a very condescendingly worded venty PSA about it.

like they use this very mean tone about something they are personally upset by that the average person has literally no reason to have ever even questioned before and it just... treats anyone who didn't take some specific college class as a total idiot personally out to purposely ruin their day, instead of remembering they're in a position to genuinely educate on an issue that is honestly fucking harmless.

#txt #they're right i just wish they weren't so unbearable about it outside of their personal/academic circles bc misinfo IS important to correct #an example being how we call pics with wild composition Renaissance Paintings when we mean... baroque i think?#idk there was some angry psa about it forever ago #that i obvs still remember and so i know every time i say ren painting it's wrong #but at this point 1) no one else is going to know what i mean if i say baroque painting and 2) the tone was soooooo #annoying that i kinda wanna keep making that mistake on purpose out of spite even tho it's wrong!!#which is Bad but.............................. if ur trying to bestow knowledge upon us mere mortals maybe don't be a dick about it jskldf;#i get it bc i have my own topics i'm like that for but i think if i were ever going to outright make a psa i would...#yknow........#use a tone ppl would want to actually listen to me from because i know my annoyance is not what the world revolves around #it's not like tone policing where the person is like personally impacted by it on a foundational identity level #i'm not telling someone they need to talk about racism in a palatable way for white people #in Most cases this is just random academics who spend way too much time engaging solely with people in their field #who then have paper skin and glass bones whenever they interact with someone at the grocery store who #has no need to know anything about this #if you want to come across less misinfo you can educate people!!! kindly!!!!!#if you want to come off like a super smart pretentious asshole above us all then go for what i'm talking about i guess

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