the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family
Can parents stop acting like providing a child’s basic needs is something to be earned? So many kids grow up traumatised because they were made to feel guilty about the existence they never asked for
my parents could
literally pull out a knife and stab me and people would still go “Aww I’m
sure they didn’t mean that! 🙂 they’re your parents they love you, maybe you
did something to cause that? Remember you must always respect and listen to
them!!” it makes me sick
(½) Got into an argument with mother over trigger warnings (specifically regarding course materials in college classes). I brought up the fact that there are college students who are veterans and have PTSD. Thinking, foolishly, that that would make her consider being in favor of trigger warnings, considering that she has 1 brother, 2 cousins, and 2 uncles who have been in the military. But she didn’t budge an inch.
(2/2) Do you really care about your family members, or do you just like the bragging rights their shiny military status gives you? God, how far up your own ass are you? You’re talking about it like it’s censorship, like it’s a violation of freedom of speech. Trigger warnings aren’t a violation of freedom of speech, and they aren’t the same as censorship. Censorship means preventing people from seeing things. Trigger warnings mean LETTING people AVOID things they DON’T want to see.
べんきょうしなければならない 