internet pop psychology terms like "narcissist," "toxic," etc are a rly scary carceral identity based thinking - creates a "mental disorder" that just defines a person as "evil and always will be"
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Replying to @jdr____llc @arthur_affect
Did Trump or somebody pay you to write this tweet? Because this has the same kind of energy as those chuds that spew nonsense about cancer culture or that "TERF is a slur". There are just some bad people out there that can't change and never will, because they choose not to.
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Replying to @Zulnahdwiin @jdr____llc
If you believe the problem is indeed that they "choose not to" change then that's a reason to avoid medicalized terminology, especially because there are people who very much use it in this eugenic sense of identifying people diseased from birth
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Replying to @arthur_affect @jdr____llc
I'm beginning to understand why the right thinks us lefties want to police all thought. All this pedantic nonsense and needless ethical agonizing is completely ridiculous on it's face. I see no advantage to pointing out how a word is used by worse people in a different context.
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Replying to @Zulnahdwiin @jdr____llc
It's not "pedantic nonsense", the word "narcissist" isn't just a random word people throw around, the "narcisphere" is a whole detailed pop-psychological theory that people on the Internet are really into that generates a lot of what I think of as very harmful ideas
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There are a lot of people -- often people who present themselves as authorities on the concept of abuse -- who outright say shit about how "The human population is divided in a 1:10 ratio between 'narcissists' and 'empaths' the way animals are divided between predators and prey"
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I have a lot of ambivalent feelings about the word 'empathy' and the way it's used Because the more someone valorises it, the more likely they are to demand it for themselves and/or use it as a stick to beat dissidents and neurodivergents with But it's also an important skill
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I think saying that an "empath" is a *kind of person* is incredibly dangerous, misguided nonsense, much less saying that an empath is a kind of person who is the *opposite of a narcissist* It's like the most shockingly irresponsible thing you could say to someone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hi_Mike_Gorrie and
Especially because "narc discourse" BRAGS ABOUT THE LACK OF EMPATHY "EMPATHS" HAVE FOR NARCISSISTS They straight up say a narcissist is someone it's impossible to genuinely empathize with -- "You think you can predict their actions and reactions but there's just nothing there"
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It turns into this unfalsifiable fortress of self-justification If you think you "get" other people and their emotions make sense to you, that's somehow proof you're a good person If you meet someone this fails to be true for, that's proof THEY'RE a bad person
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