Hehe yes

But not everyone rejects because of malice. But often of ignorance.

The “centrist devil” has become another absolutism born from justice.

I am not saying water down the gravity, i’m just asking if we can do better in shortening the gap between defensiveness and acceptance, and redemption.

Most of what i see at least in my country Italy in regards to racism and structural issues is playing holier-than-thou and finger pointing.

Being right is not enough. Making new ways of “us vs them” between ordinary people, those that are bystanders to the oppression, is simply repeating past mistake, just as it would be a grave mistake to diminish the gravity of what’s to heal.

It seems impossible to solve, but the already woke were asleep once too

Yeah no i was totally wrong dont know why i said that. Its maybe that this meme seemed to undermine the cureent mobilization?

Like, we do need to address it but how do we minimize the resistance that comes from the defensiveness of “dont call me bigot?”

Certainly we can’t let this fear allow us to postpone a critical component of change.

People, especially heteronormative white people really, REALLY conflate accountability with an attack on their pride, it’s a cultural heritage the deconstruction of which can only be sparked from inside.

We all need to learn that past mistakes are only a permanent mark if we do nothing to change them

Better late than never, we can hold ppl accountable for inaction AFTER we beat the system

It shall be done, friends

“Oh, you mean the big tiddy goth gf was inside me this whole time???”

I’m not trying to absolve anyone, saying someone is stupid is not accountability, it’s just a cathartic insult. I’m just saying that free will is cultivated, not absolute, and the choices that people have available are often invisible to them. Everyone has a responsibility to do better, but it would be blind to ignore the tunnel vision our system imposes.

Trying to be all high and mighty and stroking our ego feeling “smarter” than poor assholes who never knew anything different is part of the reason anti intellectualism is so rampant

Is that sarcasm? I hope its sarcasm. It’s all mafia

It’s not about intelligence, it’s about mass manipulation starting from the youngest age. Intelligence isn’t an inherent trait, it is taught. And the system has been perfected to ingrain fear and ignorance or apathy and tiredness in our minds.

It’s not about the species being “stupid”, that narrative is part of the poison that manipulates us, and is ultimately, an incredibly stupid thing

Disgusting, i can’t imagine not washing your ass after a shit when at home

Jesus christ the comments in this thread…

You and me both, pardner

Anarchy in Europe? I wish!

feeling like my soul is mad at me for not picking up molotovs

The Patriarchy is weakened when gender is not absolute.

When the Patriarch is threatened hatred is the response

Firstly, I’d like to thank you for the thoughtful comment, it gave me a lot to think about, and i’m grateful. I did not feel you were trying to bring me down, quite the opposite.

I guess my problem is that i try to articulate my thoughts as much as possible because i fear being misunderstood. It relates to my childhood experiences and my personal social difficulties, i struggle with neurodivergence so communication doesn’t often come natural to me, so I try to explain things as best as i understand them and in the end i prove that i don’t understand them very well. My countermeasures trip my tongue and often i feel like i’ve exhaustively explained something only to find the persone in front of me, somewhat dumbfounded at best and irate at worst.

This happens specially with complex topics that charge me emotionally.

Add to that the fact that i’m not a native english speaker so maybe it is more prominent in this kind of writing. This excessive articulation then also happens internally when I think about my emotions and perceptions and i’m pretty sure it hinders my ability to understand myself. It’s also very energy-consuming.

Thank you again for giving me this opportunity to being constructive to myself in such a respectful way, it’s rare to find in the internet these days and i genuinely appreciate it

I think we have an ecolutionary predisposition to be very defensive when we feel threatened. Add that to a social environment where we are CONSTANTLY and artificially condititioned to be threatened, considering that emotional intelligence and the ability to articolate and understand your own thoughts (let alone other’s) are virtually never taught if not en passant and indirectly (and often the wrong this are taught) and you have the perfect recipe for the Tower of Babel.

Humankind’s inherent incommunicability of internal thought is paired with an artificial and political cooptation of our survival instincts, the ones we evolved to defend ourselves from the people that a re manipulating us right now. That’s the reason antiauthoritarian thought is often patologized. They name the cure a sickness so that we keep ourselves under the Veil

Ehrm…another pope?

I recommend a book, for this.

Blindsight by Peter Watts is an interesting insight in many science fiction topics, but the most important concept in the book is, I think, is the seemingly unfeeling protagonist journeying towards the edge of the solar system to discover his inner world and how he projected it unto others. It might not answers your exact question, but I think it will grant you interesting insight in the matter

Why not? Let them have fun in a safe place instead of forcing them to use their idiot teen brain outside and get themselves in trouble