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  • You see it as dismissive. Low effort reply, like they couldn’t be bothered. It’s not inviting continued conversation so you see it as someone telling you to stop talking to them.

    If I were to guess. In your eyes. They might as well have replied with “cool story bro”.

    Which is now forever a sarcastic term and no one regardless of what you say, will believe that you actually found their story cool.









  • You keep saying that word… I don’t think it means what you think it does.

    Pretend, something that isn’t what it is being represented to be. E.g. imaginary.

    Just because people collectively agree on things doesn’t make it pretend.

    Money doesn’t have value because we pretend it does, but rather because we believe it does. Because we trust that it does.

    And yes, there is a difference.

    On a more real note, it also has value because everyone else trusts that it does. All those other countries. And no, they are not countries because we pretend that they are. They’re countries because we recognize their authority over their territory, and their citizens recognize the authority of their government.

    So why do we recognize authority? Because of means to enforce it.

    There’s no pretend going on. The consequences will be very real.



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    3 months ago

    Dude, they’re not racists for disagreeing with your reasoning.

    Racism, of various levels, are built upon hundreds of years of mistrust, inequality and misinformation.

    It’s not as simple as just “cmon can’t we all just get along?”. And they are trying to explain this to you. And inform you that it’s a difficult and long path that has to be built slowly and carefully, and each place on earth will have to build it in a way that works for them, because all places experience racism differently.

    Them trying to explain this to you doesn’t make them racists. None of them are saying discrimination is ok. Not a single one.