When a person lives a life so privileged that their bad decisions bear them little negative consequence, they start to believe all their opinions are good ones.
@alice so many people that could be about...
@alice so....men 🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣🀣

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Mostly men. Old men. Sprinkle in a few women and younger people.

But still mostly old men.

@alice vaccinations. Only in a society no longer burdened by the horrors of many diseases due to vaccinations, could a movement start screaming about how vaccines are actually The Devil.
@alice And when they face the mildest of mild consequences (such as people suggesting the harm they're causing others is maybe not so great) the only way they know how to respond is to cast themselves as the victim.
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That's been my experience.
They also see any move to curb their most costly and harmful privileges as an outrageous attack on their rights

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The opposite of learned helplessness is learned infallibility.

@alice The most accurate description of being a white cis-man ...
@alice this is so true.

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a lot of folks have said this approximate sentiment in a more elegant fashion,

but I do definitely think that everyone needs someone in their life - a close friend, a therapist, some kind of counselor - who is willing and able to take them aside from time to time and say "hey you're slinging bullshit, cut that the fuck out"

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