I know they deliberately described Selby's motivations for taking her in in deliberately emotive, irrational terms in order to humanize the moment Even so Selby decided to give her a second chance and treat her as worthy of redemption *because of what she looked like*
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I'm not saying this to attack Selby and say she's a bad person -- certainly she's probably a better person overall than me I concede that this questions are complicated and that the world is probably better off with Martinez as she is now than a Nazi teen who died homeless
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Still and all, it strikes me how fucking arbitrary the way we dole out compassion and empathy is, how kneejerk childish prejudice is impossible to escape, no matter how much you're preaching the ideology of universal lovingkindness
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Just imagining playing with Photoshop and altering Martinez's facial features as a teen until I hit the exact threshold point where if her eyes get a tiny bit bigger and closer together she gets saved and a tiny bit smaller and farther apart she stays a Nazi
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This isn't a small fucking thing, either This is why cops open fire on Black 12-year-old boys who automatically get upgraded into "almost-adults", while abusive white CEOs in their 40s who carefully dress like endearingly sloppy teenagers "still have a lot of growing to do"
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The Onion did this pitch-dark satire of the news media's "photogenic white woman" syndrome that's still one of the best things I've ever seen them dohttps://www.theonion.com/judge-rules-white-girl-will-be-tried-as-black-adult-1819594949 …
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People don't do enough self-crit about this, I feel Not willing enough to really engage with the idea they might be the same shallow horny animals as everyone else "This isn't empathy and compassion, you just think they're hot and you want to sleep with them"
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"Or you feel a visceral discomfort because they literally *physically* remind you of your own children, or yourself at a younger age If they didn't, you wouldn't care"
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