#horseshoeisms

I honestly blame the rise of anti-intellectualism and things like hating on old books because they're not up to modern standards on why people can't think with nuance and are afraid of bucking the norm or forming their own opinions. You're going to read Of Mice And Men and you're going to be fucking uncomfortable because that's the goddamn point. You're going to read the original Romeo and Juliet and remember the whole point is to make fun of how stupid and dramatic teenagers are and you're going to sit there and be uncomfortable because the only way you're going to expand your horizons is if you're feeling weird and off and hate it for awhile.

Still wild to me that people who will tell people off for being xenophobic to Russians, North Koreans, Iranians, etc will then turn around and say shit about Israelis so horrendous it would make even Red Scare McCarthyists stunned. You can't "people can't control their country" and not apply it across the board. And if you're non-indigenous and think the only way to Land Back is to "go back where you came from" them all whole bunch of everyone needs to go back to Europe.

Last serious post from me for now, but every time I see people insist they have to talk about the conflict, that they HAVE to witness the horrors, retweeting untagged and uncensored real life gore and all it's just disheartening.

Awful people still deserve rights btw. Like deserve isn't even the right word here. Every human being should be treated with basic human rights and dignity because once you can justify mistreatment of any group or type of person you have every reason to lump in anyone you don't like into that group to justify mistreating them or violence against them. It horrifies me how often leftists are willing to dehumanize or justify abuses against anyone, regardless of who or what they did