SO UH!!!!! HOW ABOUT THAT NEW SANDERS SIDES EPISODE HUH!!!!!!!!!! NO I HAVENT BEEN WATCHING THIS 7 SECOND SEQUENCE OVER AND OVER HAHA HOW ABOUT YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!
WOW!!!! This is absolutely incredible!!!! I love it!!
Previous Media Matters studies show that Sunday shows have favored conservative guests for years, regardless of whether a Republican or a Democrat was in the White House.
well I mean…. yeah. It’s a SUNDAY show.
There’s literally a flag now for people who “agree with their assigned gender at birth, but refuse to be cis.”
half the notes: youre the real oppressor for telling me what to do.
the other half: cut out this useless liberal proselatizing. you are an invertebrate and you will perish in the revolution.
we have a new prize comment which is “pretty neurotypical of you to assume i have the capacity to care about other people”
While I recognize people with mental disabilities that prevent them from caring about other people are valid and deserve respect; I must also remind you that not caring about other people is contrary to human survival. Humans would literally die at birth if other people did not care about them
Oh look, it’s the thing. The exact thing.
I know Geek Fallacy 1 is tempting, guys, but “when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time” is still good advice.
If someone does uncaring things and you call them on it and they throw back that you have to accept it or you’re ableist against Cluster B people, run.
Some people can deal with that. You are not required to, though.
No one is.
The reason I reblogged this in the first place as being relevant to The Empathy Discussion was the comment after makiruz (via @lines-and-edges, quoted here):
This comment is a reaaaallly good example of how English uses “caring” to mean both an experience of emotion and an action you can take and how sometimes those definitions are not… really all that directly linked, but get conflated with each other by people who experience them as the same thing.
Like, if you experience the emotion of caring towards cats, then you probably like being around them. But you don’t have to experience any particular emotions to keep a cat alive and happy. (In fact, cats are notorious for enjoying the presence of people who don’t particularly like them, because emotionally demonstrative humans are sometimes Just Too Much.) Taking care of each other (and animals) – aka altruism – is the part that’s necessary to survival. And it’s important for people not to forget that part – no matter what emotions they do and don’t feel.
Those who do not experience the emotion of caring are still capable of performing the action. They’re not the same thing, they’re not even linked. Even those motivated purely by self-interest can understand that altruistic behavior evolved at all because it is beneficial and a sound survival strategy, and choose to act accordingly.
If you experience them as the same thing and for you they are linked, that doesn’t mean you’re automatically an evil person, but it DOES mean you might have a harder time behaving caringly toward someone you don’t emotionally care about – hence the people who keep arguing that “high-empathy people lack empathy for low-empathy people”. It’s not that they want to demand you to have empathy for them when they have none for you because they have none in general, but that they want you to treat them decently, and they understand that if for you “treating people decently” is so intrinsically linked to “having empathy for people” that you can’t believe someone who lacks general empathy might still somehow be motivated to generally treat others decently…. then you are highly unlikely to treat people decently if you do not have empathy for them.
I don’t know if this explanation is finally going to make sense, since the last several tries apparently didn’t, but. Here it is again, in yet another different phrasing.
Anyway, I can say from experience that I personally do experience the emotion of caring, but also since I don’t link that directly to performing the action, I’m able to act caringly toward people I really don’t emotionally give much of a crap about. Because altruism is a survival strategy and it’s actually easier in my estimation to just treat everyone decently and behave caringly whenever possible, than to go around trying to come up with a way to determine who “deserves” my caring behavior. And also because I don’t wanna be just another flavor of bigot who excludes certain groups from my “people who deserve to be treated decently” calculations on the basis of some superficial characteristic.
Heck, sometimes the emotion of caring is overwhelming enough that it paralyzes me from completing the actions of caring. Which is a lovely little catch-22 when it comes to trying to interact with people who conflate the emotions with the actions, because they then assume I have no caring emotions when really what’s going on is I’m having TOO MANY caring emotions to handle and have stopped functioning temporarily on account of empathy overload.
I still don’t understand not having emotions about your own actions though.
“sure I fed my cat but who gives a fuck”
?????????????
if you say this to me i will be Concerned about the welfare of your beastie
Look just because I have to clean the fridge and scrub out the oven routinely doesn’t mean I’ve got Emotions about it???
Yeah, it’s my cats. I love them. But also they are little rat bastards who bite and attack my ankles and are in general little terrors. They still need to eat tho, even if I’m not super enthused about it. I’m GOING to feed them regardless of my emotional bandwidth because hey, living creature that I am responsible for.
Latinoamérica de mi corazón, cuándo vas a ser la tierra con la que sueña tu gente?
if you’re brazilian and LGBT i can help you move to Argentina. its not the best, but its what i can do
everyone share this around for brazilian lgbt people who want to become a refugee in argentina. tell them to contact me (love#3592 on discord) if they need more information.
relacionesinternacionales@lgbt.org.ar 011-4338-4900 int.8106 ó 0800-999-3722
Mandar un mail a: defensoria@lgbt.org.ar
O buscanos en FB y TW: @defensorialgbt
TO MOVE TO ARGENTINA SAY A MEMBER OF ZONA LA PLATA SENT YOU THIS INFO TO BECOME A REFUGEE
Heey, this is sweet, but you don’t need to become a refugee to live legally in Argentina if you’re Brazilian! It’s the easiest country to move to for Brazilians and the whole process to obtain a DNI (the Argentinian national identity) takes 90 days and you get a 2 year visa, which you can later turn into a permanent residency visa without much trouble. It’s very affordable, we don’t even need to translate the documents thanks to a bilateral agreement and you don’t have to prove you have a job lined up for you or anything. Unless Brazil leaves the Mercosur, there’s no need to go so far as to ask for refuge if you choose Argentina as your destination.
thank you so much for your addition! reblog this please
if you plan to do this, id suggest you do it as quickly as possible, because its been said bolsonaro wants to leave mercosur
we’re almost in the ‘20s and dadaism is thriving, europe’s in a shambles, everyone is broke and the right wing is on the rise so i guess we really don’t learn a goddamn thing huh
This is really the post I was looking for
This… This is actually a bit disturbing.
in 1918 the Spanish flu epidemic killed some 50-100 million people just after the Great War left 10 million dead and 10 million wounded; so far the 21st century is amazingly, incredibly, fantastically better than the 20th was.
2018′s not over yet lad
I mean in fairness they didn’t need to worry about blog spam in 1918.
breaking news: harry potter has quit his job as an auror!
stating that ‘i have no idea why i thought that was a good idea, holy shit’, potter has since relocated to diagon alley and reopened florean fortescue’s ice cream parlour. in a comment, potter said ‘yeah. yeah, this seems more like it’ and added ‘i mean, he gave me ice cream that one time. loved that guy.’
All Pottermore stories and other HP related extra-canon are hereby replaced with this text post
I really hate the phrase “Respect is earned”, because I don’t see why I have to EARN respect. Respect isn’t a consolation prize. I’m a human being. That in it self, should warrant respect. I guess in a perfect world, respect would be something that is given to all, instead of granted based on merit.
Respect should be freely given, trust is earned. Everyone should be respected, their autonomy and personhood valued. Trust and love must be earned and developed.
There’s two concepts being conflated here tho: Basic Human Decency and Treating Someone Like An Authority.
Human Decency should be given. Treating Someone Like An Authority IS earned.
And sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority will say stuff like “if you don’t respect me I won’t respect you” and mean “if you don’t treat me like an authority I won’t give you basic human decency” because they’re conflating two things that we use the word “respect” for.
Meanwhile sometimes people who have often been treated without basic decency will say “if you don’t respect me I won’t respect you” and mean “if you don’t treat me with basic decency I won’t treat you like an authority”.
Can I watch a great film knowing the actresses in it were terrorized and mistreated the entire time? Can I watch a football game knowing that the players are getting brain injuries right before my eyes? Can I listen to my favorite albums anymore knowing that the singers were all beating their wives in between studio sessions? Can I eat at the new fancy taco place knowing when the building that used to be there got bulldozed eight families got kicked out of their homes so they could be replaced with condos and a chain restaurant? Can I wear the affordable clothes I bought downtown that were probably assembled in a sweatshop with child labor? Can I eat quinoa?
Can I eat this burger? Can I drink this bottled water? Can I buy a car and drive to work because I’m sick of taking an hour each way on the subway? Whose bones do I stand on? Whose bones am I standing on right now?
On one hand, it’s a privilege to be able to choose to acknowledge these horrors or not–we’re going to acknowledge that privilege. On the other hand, I once attended a lecture by the explorerer-conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s daughter and son and they had a lot of opinions about what we could do to help the environment and the ocean and I talked about how in my country, we have to drink bottled water, because it’s a desert and there’s only salt water all around, but we’re contributing to pollution and all of these things…
And she looked at me and told me not to fall into the trap of “activist guilt.” I couldn’t remember the exact words, but, it was the first time I’d heard the term and it took a weight off my shoulders.
We do what we can. It’s so much better than giving up entirely or not doing anything at all because we can’t do it perfectly. It doesn’t benefit anyone in the end if we just sit around feeling guilty about every little thing in life. I’d just joined tumblr back then (haha, so like, eight or nine years ago at this point?), I was being exposed to way more than I’d ever been before (I was previously just into feminism and animal rights/wildlife conservation/environmentalism since I was a kid), and it was weighing on me.
As long as humans are humans and living flawed lives, many consumed by greed, there will not be anything in this world untouched by evil.
I usually avoid stuff that says it was made in China or other cheap looking knockoffs, out of fear of them being made in sweatshops (now, I know even a lot of big brands use those…), it’s exhausting. Then, I read something about how people who actually lived and worked in those would still buy this cheap stuff and how this shocked the foreigner reporting on it, but they just looked confused like, it’s what they can afford and them avoiding consuming it isn’t going to change the whole system from the ground-up.
… it went on about how “money talks” and choosing where to put your money still feeds the whole capitalist system and is nearly a way of comforting yourself, but you not buying doesn’t mean everyone else isn’t. What needs to be tackled is at a much higher level than any of us can reach.
Of course, I’d still, given the choice, give my money to companies I agree with and I’ll boycott what I know to support awful stuff, but I also feel no superiority over this and know now it’s not as black and white or easy as I thought it was.
This is the same reason that moral purity “you can’t enjoy [x] because it’s Problematic ™” is such nonsense, because nothing is pure. There’s something bad about everything if you dig deep enough. As long as we lived in flawed human societies we’ve got to make the best of what they offer us. If you have the choice and means, please, do support those who do good, but also, don’t beat yourself up over not living up to an unattainable ideal.
No one can. You’ll just make yourself so miserable, you either burn up and stop fighting entirely or you’ll make yourself a non-productive, depressed heap just out of a bleeding heart left unchecked. You can’t make a change to this world if you refuse to engage in it.
You can’t make a change to this world if you refuse to engage in it.
Which is why, in my opinion, the better world religions don’t lionize the monks on the mountaintop, but rather demand that if they want to be “holy” they engage with the people they’re supposed to be helping.
I really hate the phrase “Respect is earned”, because I don’t see why I have to EARN respect. Respect isn’t a consolation prize. I’m a human being. That in it self, should warrant respect. I guess in a perfect world, respect would be something that is given to all, instead of granted based on merit.
Respect should be freely given, trust is earned. Everyone should be respected, their autonomy and personhood valued. Trust and love must be earned and developed.
There’s two concepts being conflated here tho: Basic Human Decency and Treating Someone Like An Authority.
Human Decency should be given. Treating Someone Like An Authority IS earned.
House Of Crows 