Originally Posted by
Opaque
Apparently. Josh talks about "peers" but the way you two talk it's like you're still in High School and the grown ups don't understand that it's not a phase, it's who you really are!
I learned how to differentiate between real discrimination, oppression and hate a while ago. The people waving Nazi flags at State Capitals are evil. The anti-vaxers pushing for an end to social distancing or refusing to wear face masks at Costco are dangerous. People that think this won't happen again if we don't change the way we handle health care, universal income and most importantly pandemic preparedness are delusional.
But you guys are like "Opaque doesn't think I have the hardest life on the planet, he's an asshole and I can't even understand him". Like your job, healthcare, economic status, and life are even, I don't know, bottom half in the world? 3 Billlion people on Earth live on less than $2.5 a day with no healthcare to speak of. Like a billion people in each China and India instantly have worse lives than you in almost every measurable metric of economic viability, health care and civil liberty. Most of Africa and South America you'd hate. Russia? North Korea? You have smart phones, vaccines, indoor plumbing, netflix, grubhub, the internet. We're able to argue right now about how we can be better as a society, we're not cowering in fear the the murder squads might come down our streets and wipe us out. You've never, and likely will never, even experience a domestic war. There's hasn't been on on US soil since 1865 for fucks sake. Almost every country in Europe has experienced war on their land in the last 100 years. Many countries have on going on RIGHT NOW. Bombings that can blow up your neighborhood. Fleeing your country not because you'd like another one better, but because you'll die if you stay.
Most people on the Planet have a worse life than you. Everyone who lived 100 years ago or earlier had WAY worse lives than you. America has SO MUCH ROOM to be better, but to act like you don't have it better than most currently living humans and 99% of all humanity that came before you is just childish bullshit.
You live in some magical world where you and Anne Frank are just going through the same shit and anyone who doesn't think exactly like you must be racist, sexist, xenophobic or something evil. There's no way bad things that happen to you are just bad things, they must be the WORST of things and you must have it as bad or worse than anyone else going through life. You got offended on behalf of domestic violence victims when NO ONE was even talking about them. You got offended for M ->F transgender men not being allowed to dominate women in sports. But if I, a dude who just doesn't think you are the victim of a genocide right now, voices that opinion I live on a different planet from you.
Well good. The planet you live on is clearly fucking bonkers.
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