It's why she made it as long as she did harassing and assaulting people and ended up at this woman's doorstep and not inside a prison cell It's why this woman took pity on her and nursemaided her out of Nazism -- letting her play with her kids! -- rather than calling the cops
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You want to talk about "moral luck", in the alternate universe where Martinez was 6'3", broad shouldered and muscular, Selby freaked out, got scared and called 911 as soon as she saw her, and now she's in prison today
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This timeline's version of Selby has the "moral luck" of getting to feel like a compassionate, empathetic person who never gives up on people because she saw a 5-foot-tall "elf" and her hindbrain got tickled in a certain way that felt like compassion
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But I don't know that the real Selby would even judge the alternate-universe Selby for kicking the scary-jacked-dude version of Martinez out of her house You gotta keep yourself safe, after all (even though the real Martinez had already proven herself to be dangerous)
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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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