Tag: facts

glumshoe:

You can dislike people Just Because. Most people vaguely dislike others based on trivial annoyances… it’s allowed. You really don’t need to justify it beyond that. There is no requirement that you find reasons why those trivial annoyances are actually Mortal Sins and you are Righteous for your distaste. I dislike lots of folk for reasons that aren’t related to whether or not they’re good or bad people.

mercurydaze:

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