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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It's fucked up and it's a *major thing*, a ton of vulnerable or traumatized people turn to this kind of ideology for reassurance, and it's a belief system that's like designed to reinforce the so-called "cycle of abuse"
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("There are two kinds of people in the world, predators and victims, and the fact that you were victimized is PROOF that you're the good kind of person and not the bad kind, and it means that anyone who criticizes your actions is probably a predator trying to do it to you again")
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Not to mention "do you really want to be a victim? You don't. Be a predator instead"
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Well, narcisphere people would say that it's impossible to take this advice
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Hi_Mike_Gorrie and
But I can see how someone could take it that way, especially if they were warped by mistreatment, and it would reinforce the idea that they should “do unto others before they get a chance to do unto you.”
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