those are literally not fucking crow babies goddammit how many times do i have to tell you fuckers those are rail chicks
Crows build nests. Their young are helpless and not very fluffy. They can’t walk when they’re tiny like these are doing.
These are baby crows:
this is 10000% a completely unnecessarily nasty response, jesus god. you’re screaming at a sixteen year old kid on the internet for making a completely innocent and harmless mistake (one that google images also makes) i guess because you feel the need to prove you are the MOST BIRDEST? i don’t know. tumblr, you do this shit a lot, turning what should be a gentle and friendly correction about unimportant stuff into a bellowing tirade about how you can’t belieeeeeve someone could be so stupid as to not know the difference between altricial and precocial birds. it’s fucked up. stop fucking doing it.
i know it’s easy to get frustrated by misinformation touted as fact on tumblr, but shit like this is not life or death. it’s not social justice. youranimeprince isn’t in some position to forever destroy the nesting habits of corvids. they are sixteen, and they wanted to look at some cute fluffy baby animals. have like a fraction of a SMIDGEON of compassion for how upsetting it is to innocently post something cute and inoffensive and return to find people furious at you.
if you want those misinformed tumblr kids to stop being so misinformed, then fucking educate them kindly. if you feel that you can’t be kind, then honestly fuck off and let one of us be the adult instead.
^This. So much this.
We need to be kind in our corrections. We need to make it OKAY to be wrong. If you are the teacher (literal or metaphorical) who makes a student feel like an idiot, eventually everyone will stop raising their hands and learning will stop.
It is OKAY to make mistakes. It is okay to be wrong. Encourage, do not condemn.
MOST BIRDEST THOUGH.
Can’t we all be the most birdest?
I’m just happy the correction was made. But okay; yeah. I’m a believer in “assume good faith” and “getting furious with someone for a well-intentioned mistake is probably counter-productive”.
Attention people correcting people on Tumblr: The people you are correcting are not bad people. They’re just wrong. That’s true for birds, social justice; whatever. If you can’t help but be furious about setting them straight, that’s really unfortunate, for you especially, but what you’re engaged in isn’t righteous, no matter how much it feels like it. You, too, are wrong.
There’s a vast amount of wrong out there. Kindness and forgiveness, though: that’s in short supply. So make a contribution.
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