Rage

[mystickeeper]

Elsewhere on the Internet, in a post that is unfortunately locked, various things have been purported. The post is here, now unlocked

Comments

[meganbmoore]

I swore off that thread yesterday. Too many happy things I could spend my time on instead.

[nylorac15]

Here here! My life has been full of disintegrating dichotomies lately, too. Hint to the world: it feels good. Everything makes more sense, not less, when you realize that nothing is black and white.

[wrdnrd]

APPLAUSE.

[takumashii]

I hate the assumption that we don't "get it," that people who are religious don't understand what it's like to have been proselytized to, or yelled at for having the wrong morals or the wrong opinions. I've known people who've experienced real emotional abuse at the hands of their churches; I've known gay Christians (speaking of asshats telling people that entire aspects of their identity do not exist...) trying to make a place for themselves at Gay Hippie Church. These things aren't easy; I'm not trying to pretend that they are.

I just know that if we genuinely believe in diversity, and plurality, then we have to acknowledge that there are a lot of different people in this world with a lot of different paths to follow, and it's condescending to pretend that anyone has more of a claim on a person's beliefs and identity than that person.

Blah blah blah rant.

[heyiya]

everyone buying into the soundbytes created from false dichotomies that assure us that our goals are not common, that our enemies are each other. And that we must stay busy fighting one another, so that we are incapable of waking up, banding together, and doing something.

*applauds*

I haven't seen the locked post, but I read all the comments on the one on the comm, assuming it's the same subject. And it just makes me tired... It feels like another example of the damage false analogies of critical race theory can do in the wrong hands. I applaud you for standing up to it and insisting that people complicate their binaries.

[mystickeeper]

Weird! I was referring to the comments at the community - when originally posted, it was locked; it seems now that it's been unlocked. I'll toss a link into this post, so non-WisCon folks can have context, if desired.