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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getting a lot of post-hoc validation for fleeing the bullies, as you can see.pic.twitter.com/qdY7Jh9bzW
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Replying to @DanielleFong
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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Replying to @BLUNDERBUSSTED @DanielleFong
be anything, so everyone SHOULD be EVERYTHING. If I've been limited from these roles, it's an injustice, and if someone else is inhabiting them naturally, that's an injustice. Injustice should be punished, and I'm the party with injury." There's an overnormalization of humans.
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