Comment on Well damn. Glad he's dead.

• pH3ra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Thank you, you reasonable person

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  • JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You’re in the right here. Some people just lack reading comprehension.

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• cobalt32@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Yeah that’s how I interpreted it too. However, even with that interpretation, it feels like they’re blaming the victim for their own subjugation.

  It’s akin to saying that black people stealing from Walmart gets in the way of eradicating racism, without addressing the reason why they have to steal in the first place. If they had money for groceries, they wouldn’t be stealing. Likewise, if that young woman had enough money to live a comfortable life, I highly doubt she would have spent two years of her life married to that crusty old man. Subjugated people do what they have to do to survive.

  We all word things the wrong way sometimes, and that’s okay. Everyone deserves a chance to clarify what they meant. In this case, however, it seems that pH3ra has only continued to double down on their original statement.

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• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Ah, but you’re forgetting that this is the age of the internet, when discussing potential solutions to a problem (or root causes of that problem so that real solutions can be found) is basically equivalent to providing justification for that problem.

  We’re just supposed to paper over everything to make it presentable to an audience, even if beneath the surface everything is still a wreck. Superficial, temporary solutions are preferable to lasting solutions that address the problems at their roots.

  Something about toxic positivity, and confusing descriptivism with prescriptivism.

  “Does” ≠ “Should” (strawmen hate this one little trick!)

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