not_IOMar 6

smart people can admit mistakes and apologize

https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/39496641

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Show threadxxce2AAbMar 6
Worse: I distinctly recall the countless people who - in response to being called stupid and were told they were about to do a stupid thing - voted for Trump in a fit of contrarian infantilism.
Show threadTja
Sounds quite deplorable
Mar 6 at 9:46amWeb
Show threadHugeNerdMar 6
More than the system that created the conditions? So it’s the victim’s fault. I see.
Show threadTjaMar 6
Hating brown people is not the fault of the system.
Show threadAzzuMar 6

It… Kinda is though? Obviously xenophobia is baked into human biology, true, but why people are not xenophobic is because they’ve been exposed to lots of different things/people by their parents/society. The reason you’re not and I’m not is because we came in contact with lots of foreign things/people, so “our system” (meaning the immediate people around us that had the most impact on us) contributed to removing our natural xenophobia.

So essentially, other people, who did not learn to reduce their xenophobia, were “failed by the system”. Because the system allowed their parents, neighbors, friends to not reduce their xenophobia, like it should have happened.

Show threadproleMar 6
That doesn’t absolve them of responsibility and make them a victim though
Show threadAzzuMar 7
It can be the fault of the system and people can be individually responsible as well. They’re not mutually exclusive.
Show threadproleMar 6

So the victims, in this case, are the people who voted for Trump?

Yeah, nah.

Show threadTjaMar 6
Well, the leopards ate their faces too!