I fully agree and just want to add that long-term stress can be traumatizing, just like being berated over long time can be violence and abuse. So yeah, there is no room for differentiation in that meme, it does discourage discussion in favor of being a purity test for right wingers.
True. I never quite got the concept of “microaggressions” until feeling myself how modest disapproval can become a fucking burden if voiced regularly by someone you can’t avoid. You go from having interests that someone doesn’t happen to share to feeling that everything you care about is invalid and you’ve failed at life.
It doesn’t help the discussion that a behavior can be perfectly fine normally but can be hurtful to specific people because of specific things that happened to them. So this is a nuanced problem, which already doesn’t bode well for reasonable public discourse. And then we have have assholes who deliberately don’t want the discussion to happen because psychologically vulnerable people are a minority and minorities getting harmed is a desired outcome for them.
I fully agree and just want to add that long-term stress can be traumatizing, just like being berated over long time can be violence and abuse. So yeah, there is no room for differentiation in that meme, it does discourage discussion in favor of being a purity test for right wingers.
True. I never quite got the concept of “microaggressions” until feeling myself how modest disapproval can become a fucking burden if voiced regularly by someone you can’t avoid. You go from having interests that someone doesn’t happen to share to feeling that everything you care about is invalid and you’ve failed at life.
It doesn’t help the discussion that a behavior can be perfectly fine normally but can be hurtful to specific people because of specific things that happened to them. So this is a nuanced problem, which already doesn’t bode well for reasonable public discourse. And then we have have assholes who deliberately don’t want the discussion to happen because psychologically vulnerable people are a minority and minorities getting harmed is a desired outcome for them.