I grew up without routine emotional abuse and it took a while for me to realize that isn't the default, but I know now
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @karltaro
you have an expansive concept of abuse, though it has become the default in therapeutic settings and among nice white folks. Essentially no immigrants have this baseline.
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btw I don't think considering this abuse is expansive https://twitter.com/wesyang/status/1175059540926185472?s=21 … for balance: I also think circumcision should be illegal
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It absolutely is too expansive. As probably anyone who was raised outside of the Anglo-Saxon asylum will attest.
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Replying to @Rationalbot @sonyasupposedly and
And I'm Eastern European, not East Asian.
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Fair enough. I'm not changing my mind, but we can just disagree
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @Rationalbot and
the majority is always sane ;)
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly @Rationalbot and
I'm joking that if a majority of people say it's not abuse, it's not abuse, definitionally.
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Replying to @mr_archenemy @Rationalbot and
disagree, if everyone beat their kids and thought nothing of it, that would still be abuse
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there are two different ways to define a word: * descriptively (how OTHERS use it) * prescriptively / theoretically if everyone beat their kids & society thought nothing of it, the word "abuse" as used by normal people would NOT include child beating (but we'd still say it was)
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