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I've always had an undercurrent of "we just need to try to understand each other" with people I disagree with. Forever. But I'm starting to feel myself losing it with the woke infection. I'm watching myself shut down and curl up and go "actually no just go away." 1/

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Aug 7, 2020

It's surreal and I'm not sure how I feel about it. I think I'm starting to view them as an enemy as opposed to simply misguided. I feel a little grief over this, but this is coming after a *lot* of charitably-attempted interactions with these people. I feel exhausted and done.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Aug 7, 2020

I know this isn't fair. I know that I've always wanted people to try to interact charitably with me. And to be fair I do think I would be happy to have conversations with seemingly Infected people if they were charitable! But I'm absolutely biased now upon just subtle signaling.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

Aug 7, 2020

Like, I've noticed I've mostly stopped following people with BLM in their bios - not because I disagree with BLM, but because it's been associated with this terrifying and brutal infection that's claiming the minds of so many of my friends. I hate it.

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Aella

@Aella_Girl

I'm also afraid that me saying this will be used to justify meanness to the infected. I don't want that - I know this is a hard, nuanced line to walk. I don't think we should go easily into a war mindset at *all*. It shouldn't be easy to think war is justified. It should be hard.

2:42 AM · Aug 7, 2020

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And I absolutely don't want my expression of this fear and aversion to be taken as welcoming to the other side of the shithole. I disagree probably even more with the core ideology of the alt-right. If you're far-right, I'm not your friend either.

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This is just my two cents, but I don't think calling people "infected" during a pandemic, to refer to anyone other than people with medical conditions of the viral type, is really helping your case.

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"I'm also afraid that me saying this will be used to justify meanness to the infected" Any angry responses you get are more likely to be because of your casual and repeated description of people with a dehumanizing slur.

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I applaud even though nuanced, you could express it [Ref: last few tweets] Nietzsche’s pointers on ‘futility and dangers of resentment‘ came to my help in similar situation TLDR; Formation of any general rule/conclusions is dangerous, each life scenario merits its own attention