when i was a kid reading encyclopedias and astrophysics books for educated amateurs (‘cause that’s what i wanted to read…) i arrived in kindergarten where we were literally learning letters from the alphabet one by one it was kafkaesque torture & my teacher called me a smartasshttps://twitter.com/elizashapiro/status/1446435627495530496 …
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People don't like those different from themselves. It inspires insecurity. This was a reiterated point in my poli sci curriculum, Oakeshott addressed it, as did Ortega y Gasset. It's about being made uncomfortable about who one's self is. Pretty absurd hatred, yeah?
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They don't even know you. "These people should be provided with the same things as everyone else. If they have other needs and voice them, they're weak, or wrong, or insufferable." An issue with the kind of mass liberalism we've undertaken is the genuine sense that "anyone CAN-
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You called being in a classroom with people who weren't at the same literacy level as you "Kafkaesque torture," simultaneously proving any bullies correct and showing to the world that you don't know what Kafkaesque means
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actually, what I think what I said was, being forced to learn the alphabet letter by letter -- seriously, I think we were learning 2 per day, was kafkaesque torture.
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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That’s one of the nastiest comments I’ve seen on Twitter.
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@craftyc0der this exemplifies my point on that other thread: envy - and then ratchets it up several notches = nihilism. - Show replies
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This is an unbearably stupid time to be alive in general, but it's still pretty entertaining that aggressively online trolls think talking like psychopaths is equivalent to having a persuasive position on public policy.
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