I think the biggest disconnect comes when people assume their outrage is automatically interesting and valid just because it's deeply felt.
@moritheil Too few people are willing to say, "You shouldn't be feeling that way. Get over it"
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@HbdNrx More precisely, "You have no RIGHT to feel that way, because you haven't produced. You can't understand the tradeoffs involved." -
@moritheil idk about "no right" so much as "I don't care, your feelings are irrelevant" -
@HbdNrx Well, you'd have no right to be taken seriously. Feelings with no real-world grounding are just fantasies and masturbation. -
@moritheil Unfortunately, in the progressive culture (particularly on campus),all feelings are taken seriously at all times.Nobody says stop -
@HbdNrx All feelings but the feelings of the Enemy Du Jour. All are equal, but somehow his perspective isn't equal to the others. -
@moritheil right, all determined by privilege -
@HbdNrx Privilege, as soon as it's named such, now becomes the opposite of privilege. Funny how that works.
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@HbdNrx I'm willing to entertain a kid's opinion of candy, but not a kid's opinion of the difficulties of brain surgery.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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