Politics is a nightmare right now

[anghraine]

More than usual, even! But John Lewis is even more of a hero than he was already.

Meanwhile, this reblog brightened my day. 

I've never thought of myself as particularly empathetic, or even kind-hearted—I know I can be very aggressive and I'm a stereotypical struggles-with-theory-of-mind type—but if I come off that way despite all the wank I get involved in ... well, it's comforting.

Comments

[sathari]

Oh, damn, re: the reblog:

Okay, so the discourse around the moral purity of people who rise above trauma?

Basically absolves abusers and... just anyone ever... of the responsibility of not thinking about not hurting people?

Because the ~good people~ will ~rise above~

And... you know, roll that one out to its logical conclusion?

And it basically means that it’s good to hurt people, because it will ~separate the chaff from the wheat~, and the ~good people~ will ~rise above~ the hurt?

And, seriously, this is the opposite of anything I would personally think of as good? I cannot, I cannot.

[anghraine]

Exactly! If you don't rise above, you're a bad person is just awful. And people can't seem to see that fictional examples are massively amplified from RL, so it's very easy for people to identify themselves in actively "bad" characters, and to be upset by hearing the same harmful rhetoric directed at them. Yet the fiction affects reality crew just doesn't grasp it.

[sathari]

Yeah, it's like... possibly-ableist victim-blaming is apparently the new social justice? That is a whole ftaghn of nopetopi right there for me.