Some people on here [Tumblr] are very ridiculous about certain things, and this isn’t to be harsh on them entirely - it most likely isn’t their fault - they may be generalising based on their experiences;
Neurodivergence for example; for some reason, most of the times I see it referenced on here, everyone treats Neurodivergence as if it is one blob of people. No. Each autistic person is slightly different kind of neurodivergent to each-other, repeat that for each person with ADHD, OCD etcetera.
So, for goodness sake, Tumblr, please please, darling Tumblr; stop generalising neurodivergence for most of your virtue signalling about it.
‘Autistic people are completely unrecognised by society’ - my dearest hypothetical person who said such, I am so heavily recognised that I was diagnosed twice. Once without my consent, knowledge or even my families knowledge and once with my consent and knowledge. For others, it will likely be different, but some people’s (in this case) autism might be way more or less obvious than mine; my sweetest people, you cannot make these generalisations.
Just realised I’m the equivalent of the ‘man makes up hypothetical situation and gets mad about it’ but for autism - except this has happened to me before, so it’s fine.
You know what's the easiest, quickest way to gain my respect?
Generalise people.
Like:
"Why are people like this?!"
"Why do people do this?!"
"The audacity of certain people!"
"People are fucked up"
"People are dumb"
"People are assholes"
"People never learn"
Because, at the end of the day, our flaws and our capacity to commit mistakes are precisely what makes us human and human beings are capable of the worst atrocities.
Anyway hating/scapegoating any majority group in your country doesn't make you woke, it doesn't make you interesting, and it doesn't make you right. Men can respect women, cishets can respect LGBT people, white people can respect non-white people. If you get annoyed about generalisations of a minority but proceed to generalise the majority, you can't claim moral superiority.
As I was skimming through the articles that have landed in my inbox this morning, I was struck by how many of them include the phrase “everybody knows”, “everybody loves” or “everybody is using” in the first 3 lines.
It’s a favourite tactic used by people like trump, and it washes over people, it has become so common. Also common in TV and radio advertising if you actually listen…
Seven way-too-early sweeping generalisations about the Premier League season so far
Seven way-too-early sweeping generalisations about the Premier League season so far
[ad_1] We are all currently enjoying/enduring (delete as applicable) the second international break of this fledgling Premier League season with stars from home and abroad taking some time out from all matters domestic for a spell on their travels with their respective national teams. They are I’m sure all enjoying themselves immensely but in their absence – and the absence of other actually…
A bit long and written on my phone- i dunno how to do the "read more" thing on the app. Political musings ahead.
Edit: success! am on laptop now
I know it doesnt really help, but i always take a historical view on current events. When did the concept of White become synonymous to established cultural, economic, political hegemony? I know White likes to trace its roots back to Rome and Greece, but really werent those people more like olive and tan? I ask this because im trying to gauge how long this period of White has lasted.
There are entire pieces of spacetime they dont teach in us schools on world history. I only have passing knowledge of the byzantine empire (it "came after rome" and "capital was constantinople"). Know a bit more about the ottoman empire because i was a research assistant for a history professor who was dedicated to that region (and so many languages! Once had to try to format a bibliography with sources written in arabic, greek, turkish, romanian, bulgarian, persian- i forget the rest. They had a class system based on religion- they were a multireligious empire though muslims held the majority).
Know nothing about mughal, persian, arabic empires, nothing whatsoever about anything pertaining to africa- and of course the south american empires were demolished by europeans. But i guess my point is some of these empires lasted hundreds of years. China claims something like five thousand years of continued existence and dominance in east asia.
So when the election happened i was horrified, and i mean i still am. But my point is that the us has been an uncontested superpower for...30 years? Thats like a pop song that lasted one day at the top of the charts and then immediately fell into obscurity, if your timespan ranges back to the extinction of the neanderthals.
I just wonder if this whole "white lives matter" business is because the nation seems to have risen and possibly began falling(?) within the span of one generation. A dizzying rise and the forecasts of a dark, precipitous fall. White people got a taste of global power after wwii. Then 2010 comes around and it all seems to melt like so much dust.
This argument is probably problematic, but i kind of think of a young (male, white, protestant, etc) person given a chance at the helm of an incredibly complex and dizzingly powerful machine, and now that they feel threatened, like they might be booted off, being told they fucked up a lot of stuff and did terrible shit to people even before they had a go at the machine, they cling all the more to what power they perceive they'd always had. Creon comes to mind. Well, now ive gone and generalised about an entire demographic, making assumptions and wild approximations based on my feelings about things.
