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@judai-sm
Unpopular opinion but literally not one person in the world should have their human rights violated
If one person's rights can be waved away, so can yours
yes, even those people.
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.”
― H.L. Mencken
when the subject of "why do people believe things that are seriously wrong and harmful" comes up it feels like you kinda hear one of two perspectives:
"oh, that's easy! it's because they're fundamentally Bad people who want to hurt others and choose their beliefs to justify that! :) hope this helps"
or
"they just don't have access to the same information we do. look at this person who was raised in a cult! don't you feel sorry for her?"
and like, yes, fine, some people were in fact raised in cults, but what i wish people would understand is that the bulk of it is just normal human flaws, like:
they want to believe stuff that makes them feel smart and cool and like they've figured everything out (you also do this)
they want to believe stuff that makes them feel like their emotions are justified and grounded in reality, and that the people they want to hurt deserve to be hurt (you also do this)
they form conclusions before they've processed all the relevant information, and cling to that first impression even when new info comes to light (you also do this)
they pick up beliefs from the people around them because they want to be liked and fit in, not because the beliefs are good or true (you also do this)
they come up with reasons that the stuff that benefits them (and the people they like and identify with) is actually overwhelmingly best for everyone and obviously the right thing to do (you also do this)
they pay more attention to stuff that supports what they already believe and avoid looking in places that might show them otherwise (you also do this)
they listen to people who talk like 'one of them' and ignore others (you also do this)
they come up with reasons to dismiss people with conflicting viewpoints as obviously in bad faith or ignorant or a shill or evil (you also do this)
they fail to take their own beliefs seriously sometimes, and take their beliefs way too seriously other times, in a selective way that lets them do the things they already wanted to do (you also do this)
the very ways they construct the ideas of 'knowledge' and 'wisdom' and 'belief' and 'understanding' are biased so that what they don't want to believe comes under lots of scrutiny and what they do want to believe receives less (you also do this)
you, dear reader, are presumably right about everything and were correct to die on every hill you've ever died on, but the difference between you and someone who's wrong about important stuff doesn't look like "well they're inherently evil and i'm not", it probably looks like a combination of:
natural environment (they would have been exposed to different information than you regardless of their choices)
being in the right place at the right time (your particular profile of flaws and virtues happened to be what was needed to lead you to the right conclusions, they had the opposite experience)
random luck (you doubled down on what felt right to believe but wasn't, but it turned out to be inconsequential, or even right for different reasons, while they doubled down on what turned out to be a horrible mistake distorting their entire worldview)
you do less of the things in the previous list, and over time the difference between you and them adds up
and, look, i also do these things. the nicest and most thoughtful people i've ever met do these things. if you meet someone who never does any of these things, i dunno, give them a fucking medal or something.
i know you're doing your best. we're all doing our best.
People in the notes being like "these are weaknesses of neurotypical people; my autism means I don't have these flaws": yes you do, and this post is about you specifically. People who believe that they're somehow magically immune to cognitive biases are the ones who tend to fall victim to them the hardest.
“netanyahu made people hate the jews” he didn’t need to, you already hate us
you know it really is quite evil to go onto a post about Jewish grief over Oct 7th and make a reply saying something along the lines of “free Palestine you genocidal freaks”. That’s not a strawman either, that’s something i just read before blocking the poster.
the rainbow is a well-known symbol of gay pride that originated in the late 1970s in san francisco, when the gay community promised to never again destroy the earth by flood
Seriously stop calling people born to Jews from Poland “Polish” because we aren’t. Same goes for Jews from Germany or Russia or Ukraine or Bulgaria or England or literally anywhere in Europe. We were discriminated against and slaughtered over and over and over again for NOT being Polish et al. Things like the Venetian Ghetto and the Pale of Settlement weren’t established because Jews were viewed as European or “just like everybody else.”
I was once told not to refer to myself as Polish because I am a Jew by someone I had met literally 15 minutes earlier. That was the moment I stopped telling people where my family LIVED, and just started saying I’m Jewish.
I understand most people think it’s uncool to be Jewish these days and want to whitewash us to pretend we are fundamentally European, but we aren’t. We were never viewed as European within Europe, ever. Ashkenazi Jews only are called Polish etc. now because it serves a political purpose. You don't get to rewrite our history just so you can feel better when you talk over us and dismiss our lived experiences.
funny how Jews are the only minority that are accused of weaponising their own oppression. funny how we are expected to denounce Israel at every turn and if we don’t we are genocide apologists. funny how our indigenous status is constantly questioned. funny how we are getting hatecrimed every day and the progressive left still finds a way to make it about everyone but us. funny how we are harassed out of queer spaces, fandom spaces, universities, workplaces, our friend groups, and worst of all we are harassed out of our own ancestral homeland. funny how the so called minority solidarity goes down the drain the minute they find out you’re Jewish. funny how goyim steal our words and twist them into something they’re not. funny how they appropriate our trauma and then turn around and say it’s not ours to begin with. funny how there is nothing funny about any of this, yet it has become a universal Jewish experience and we are so fucking tired
I don’t think I should have to have encyclopedic knowledge of Jewish-related history and politics to be able to exist as a Jewish person. I’m tired of having to have sources for why I deserve to live
Jew haters really be like “Nobody actually hates Jews. you’re lying and exaggerating. Btw you’re to blame for every bad thing in this world. fuck you and die”
Help me. I am a 8 year old boy living in the illegitimate Yankee Capitalist regime. President Xi, our shelves are empty and we are hungry. I am asking you to liberate my state of Connecticut with your Chengdu J-20 Stealth air superiority fighters and your Dongfeng 41 Missiles.
it's always some sort of day of the week
some of yall want so badly to frame your hate as progressive but the truth is that hate can never be progressive. only compassion and understanding.
having being anti death penalty as one of my core beliefs is fun because it really makes me realize how even progressive people want soooooo badly for there to be a category of people they can kill. I'm sorry but "group of people okay to kill" does not exist.
Get your ducks in a row. Now get them in a circle. Get them in a Socratic seminar with that duck in the middle. Get them in a mosh pit. Get them moshing. Get them moshing.
I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird
There was a parenting-kids-with-trauma book I remember running into around 2010 (I was not and am still not a parent, but I am an older sibling) that had a lovely little slogan I like to quote all the time:
“It’s not about the Cheerios.”
This was in reference to a story about a kid flipping the HELL out into a full-blown panic about running out of their favorite cereal. Not a tantrum, not a whine-fest, but an all-hands-on-deck, code-red, world-is-ending blowup.
The kid had originally come from a very unstable situation and experienced food deprivation. The new adoptive parents were stumped, because look at all the other food! You’re safe! We can get the Cheerios tomorrow!
But it wasn’t really about the Cheerios, it was about that first flicker of unease triggering all the old trauma. From the outside, it looked ridiculous. To the trauma-trained reaction of the kid’s brain, it made perfect sense.
Human brains are weird, and we’re all out here trying to survive. Sometimes our brains do this in socially acceptable, convenient ways. But not often.
(The book was titled “Beyond Logic, Consequences or Control” I think, I’ll look it up and edit this in a bit.)
I am once again begging people to realize that AI checker doesn’t work. it’s never worked. it’s notoriously known to have flagged human-made works as AI and AI-generated works as human-made. and by feeding it people’s works, you are feeding more works to AI, because apparently the machine itself is AI.
the only thing AI checker does is harm genuine artists and people in general too.
