Possibly unpopular opinion? There’s a thin line between anti-elitism-in-academia and anti-intellectualism, and tumblr really walks it sometimes.

Anti-elitism:

• Criticizing class barriers to getting into academia
• Criticizing lack of resources to help students with physical or mental health issues
• Calling out racism and sexism in academia
• Calling out people who treat others badly for being less educated
• Calling out people who believe academia is the only way to gain knowledge

Anti-intellectualism:

• Being opposed to academia as an institution
• Acting like everyone in academia is a rich and privileged white man
• Acting like their opinions shouldn’t matter because of this
• Assuming that any specialised language exists only to make things difficult for a layperson to understand and couldn’t possibly be necessary in order to explain a complicated topic
• Assuming that if a specialist can’t explain what they’re doing to a non-specialist in five minutes then what they do is nonsense
• Shaming people for taking pride in their academic and intellectual achievements

Am I crazy for thinking that tumblr sometimes veers towards the second?

Nope, you’re observant.