I find it horrific that people can say this ugly shit out loud “pleased with ICE”… how does “being happy” with dehumanizing other people make you happy ?
Maybe the issue is that we continually insist on humanizing words and actions like this, and by extension, the people that generate them. Or at least, assuming that the origin of these kinds of thoughts is kin to us.
Studies of the typical C level boardroom execs show a distinct inclination towards sociopathy or outright psycopathy. Monetary success is the reward for empathy-free ruthlessness, and money is the means to spread your genes (a lukewarm hello to Elon and his bound concubines). There is a selection pressure for being less empathetic. Less sentient and conscious of one’s actions when framed in a larger context of their effects on others.
This is (to me at least) evidence that they are either at best, maladapted humans, or at worse then initial offshoot of a less empathetic subspecies. We’re not privy to recognize the intersections and points-of-no-return in any given species’ evolution in nature. We tend to organize it all into a neat tree so we can teach it in biology.
But once, long ago, we had cousins in the genus Homo. It’s pretty myopic to think our branch won’t ever bifurcate ever again: of course it will (has?).
(Heavy sigh).
I don’t know what this says about how we should treat this type of… disorder, from an ethical, empathetic or fitness position. Or about me. Probably enough to make a therapist weep openly about all of it.
At some point though, species eventually compete, but I suppose the silver lining is we’ll eventually be unable to produce fertile offspring with conservatives, and they will haaaaate that.
I’m also not advocating that we de-humanize them (a subspecies is still in the same species!), but we shouldn’t kid ourselves about a) all being animals that evolved and b) how we’re thought of by them.
I bet if I sent this to either one of my parents, they’d be like, “yeah? me too.”
I am super glad even as I came from white cis parents into a white cis town, I rolled homo and got the minority perspective because otherwise I’d be one of them. My mom really believes “democrats buy off blacks with welfare so they keep voting for them” and other such mind-bogglers I can’t anymore.
Not always true, I’m white, cis, and straight born to conservative Christian parents but fell out of that line of thinking by my teenage years. A lot of it really was just learning and understanding history and politics. Making friends with black kids early on might have helped as well.
As long as you are intelligent you likely would have figured it out on your own.
I find it horrific that people can say this ugly shit out loud “pleased with ICE”… how does “being happy” with dehumanizing other people make you happy ?
I need to throw up and have a long shower.
Maybe the issue is that we continually insist on humanizing words and actions like this, and by extension, the people that generate them. Or at least, assuming that the origin of these kinds of thoughts is kin to us.
Studies of the typical C level boardroom execs show a distinct inclination towards sociopathy or outright psycopathy. Monetary success is the reward for empathy-free ruthlessness, and money is the means to spread your genes (a lukewarm hello to Elon and his bound concubines). There is a selection pressure for being less empathetic. Less sentient and conscious of one’s actions when framed in a larger context of their effects on others.
This is (to me at least) evidence that they are either at best, maladapted humans, or at worse then initial offshoot of a less empathetic subspecies. We’re not privy to recognize the intersections and points-of-no-return in any given species’ evolution in nature. We tend to organize it all into a neat tree so we can teach it in biology.
But once, long ago, we had cousins in the genus Homo. It’s pretty myopic to think our branch won’t ever bifurcate ever again: of course it will (has?).
(Heavy sigh).
I don’t know what this says about how we should treat this type of… disorder, from an ethical, empathetic or fitness position. Or about me. Probably enough to make a therapist weep openly about all of it.
At some point though, species eventually compete, but I suppose the silver lining is we’ll eventually be unable to produce fertile offspring with conservatives, and they will haaaaate that.
I’m also not advocating that we de-humanize them (a subspecies is still in the same species!), but we shouldn’t kid ourselves about a) all being animals that evolved and b) how we’re thought of by them.
I bet if I sent this to either one of my parents, they’d be like, “yeah? me too.”
I am super glad even as I came from white cis parents into a white cis town, I rolled homo and got the minority perspective because otherwise I’d be one of them. My mom really believes “democrats buy off blacks with welfare so they keep voting for them” and other such mind-bogglers I can’t anymore.
Not always true, I’m white, cis, and straight born to conservative Christian parents but fell out of that line of thinking by my teenage years. A lot of it really was just learning and understanding history and politics. Making friends with black kids early on might have helped as well.
As long as you are intelligent you likely would have figured it out on your own.