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Would you be better than a disenfranchised demographic at handling their challenges?
So let's say you randomly woke up as a different race, class, gender, religion in a context in which your wellbeing and concerns were systematically treated as invalid, or worse, actively undermined by a dominant group. Would you be better at handling this than an average member of this demographic themselves?
I say yes. Granted my only experience is with being in a dominant social position, but I think I can make a reasonable argument based on purely abstract considerations. For example, I know that I am a very disciplined and awesome person. I also know that things like race, class, and gender have no inherent meaning. Anything that lacks inherent meaning clearly can't effect a person unless they let it. That's why I'm never effected by anything like disease, economic downturn, or natural disaster. These are all largely random and therefore meaningless events, and as such I rise above them because I have character and integrity. Therefore, looking at the widespread difficulties of these groups, I can only conclude that they want to be disenfranchised. Probably because it's fun and trendy, and gives them an excuse to accomplish far less than real people and still claim equivalent worth as human beings. The idea of "special difficulties" or "context" is just a mythos invented to try and make this difference in worth seem acceptable by validating a culture of victimization. I'm not trying to offend anyone here. I just don't understand this phenomenon of pseudo-disenfranchisement and want to learn more. I mean, race, gender etc. don't mean anything, so I'm just curious as to why certain races, genders etc let these things effect them in some sort of central way. I know I don't define myself by my race or gender. I don't see why everyone else can't be like me. In conclusion, I'm pretty sure I've proven through logic that I'm better than all these people, whose challenges I will never face. This makes me feel better about my life and restores my faith in a just world, since everyone who experiences bad things deserves them for putting so much focus on the superficial. |
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I think it's arrogant to assume that you would handle any situation that you yourself have never experienced better than a person that has or is experiencing it.
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I wish you were more specific as to what group you are directing this? The first group that came to mind were paraplegics and people that are physically handicap in general. If you look at how society is set up, they have minimal accessibility to every day life. If I had to worry every single time I had to urinate whether I was going to be able to find a bathroom that would accommodate my problem, I would be pretty pissed off at the world.
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Are you being serious?
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When you use words like freak when referring to people that are handicapped I can't take you seriously. If you honestly think you deserve any sympathy or empathy for your own situation then you should really take a look at how you look at the rest of the world.
And with that I will not be responding to your posts any longer. Edit: Listen it's obvious that you are being passive aggressive over previous posts in CT, but this kind of post will only fuel resentment towards you and people in your demographic. Your pretentiousness and the condescending way in which you express your opinions will not aid in changing people's minds about anything. |
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That reminds me. If minorities really want rights they shouldn't ever agitate or protest, because that's annoying. I blame the civil rights movement and the liberal mentality for this one, caving in to black people and setting a trend. The proper way for them to have earned their rights would have been for them to pay proper respect to their superiors until they elected to concede these rights to them. Y'know, saying yes'm and no'sah, referring to all white people as massah and averting their gaze in recognition of their inferiority.
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I hate it when minorities compare their struggles to those of other minorities too. By the time you have a good example group, they're no longer minorities dumbass. They're part of the establishment, and therefore have every right to look down on you whereas you have no right to what they have, because they earned it and you didn't. Otherwise you would be part of the establishment too. This is just plain simple logic folks, GOD
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It's easy to say that you could face someone's problems better than them, when given the situation that you suddenly "wake up" in their position. But seeing as that's in no way shape or form realistic, this argument is invalid. People act the way they act based off of past experiences, not gender, not race etc. But let's just assume that your scenario were possible. I don't understand how you're so easily able to assume that you could handle their situation any better than they could. When factors such as constant discrimination, bias, preconceived notions, and stereotypes come into play, it won't seem so easy after all. Also, to write off those who act disadvantaged in society in as "trendy" is, needless to say, beyond ridiculous. There's so much faulty logic in your original post, I don't know where to begin. Nor do I think I will, because judging from your last several posts, this isn't a serious thread.
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And even if you were right it doesn't matter anyways, because I would never get a chance to have the experience necessary to prove me wrong. As far as I'm concerned that's the same thing as being right, so there. |
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Easy to say for a pampered white kid ranting away on an internet forum.
Also, please continue to treat the topic at hand as objective. sarcasm |
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and realtalk anyways I make less than $3000 a year and live by myself in a ghetto that exists solely because of heterocentrism/cissexism so don't pretend to know me asshole Quote:
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I agree that a lot of minorities exaggerate how much their ethnicity or whatever impacted where they are today (although often this is not the case), however I think the idea that people shouldn't protest or speak up against such injustices such as how black people were treated when they were widely discriminated against, is completely ridiculous. The colour of their skin doesn't directly effect them, but when other people treat people differently based on the colour of their skin then yes, it DOES in fact effect them, and can (and did) hold them back. Sorry but reading your OP you seem pretty narcissistic and you're basically saying anybody who doesn't agree with you is a dumb ass. If you want people to take what you say more seriously you should be a little more respectful and open-minded.
It looks like you're just frustrated and need to perhaps come back tomorrow when you've cooled your jets as usually I agree with you but you're coming off as a bit of bigot right now. |
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wow, so much stupidity ITT
This guy's trying to troll you all, and he's doing a really, really bad job of it |
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Rubix beat me to it
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I don't know what's worse, the fact that people can't tell when I'm being sarcastic or that they can't tell when they're looking in the mirror.
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Honestly, that sounds like you're trying to cover up the fact that you've goofed up.
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He (or she?) basically is. Stop trying to excuse your utter stupidity as trolling. It would have worked better if you weren't in critical thinking. You're better off just admitting to the fact that you failed miserably at creating a quality CT thread.
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Can't point out foolishness to a fool.
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2. Distill their underlying reasoning to abstract form 3. Post them explicitly in a different context 4. Watch as nobody makes the connection 5. Watch as the ****ING CRITICAL THINKING FORUM fails to grasp relationships between concepts and thinks I'm serious 6. Nobody learns anything 7. |
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You would think if I had been serious I wouldn't have used rhetoric that deliberately revealed the inconsistencies in my (Read: YOUR) thinking
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but even with it spelled out for you you can't read it
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worthless cis POS ****tards
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You could solve THE AMAZING PUZZLE OF THIS THREAD with the FIND AND REPLACE feature in Microsoft Word
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But apparently that's too hard
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ITT "Critical Thinking"
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A thread about changing genders with the question being "would you be able to handle it", with the majority voting "yes", with the implication being "I don't think TG people have legitimate cause for complaint"
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Nope. Certainly that's not what I'm reacting to
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what the hell is wrong with you
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que?
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furry on a rampage
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Nice thread
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jesus man i come to actually read something in this thread but..
u ****in mad brah |
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¡Eres la estupido pendejo!
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Hard to believe that you're 22
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Are you finished yet, Kilroy x?
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I have a supply of rage equivalent to the amount of ignorance I'm confronted with, so probably not
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Ok guys, with all these posts, let's start discussing a topic!
Discuss being "civilized". :) |
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most people are ignorant and stupid this gives you ample opportunity to be smart and be ahead of the pack it's almost effortless but you have to not be a derpderpderper first. you seem to be failing this simple prereq. |
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Someone relocate this pathetic excuse for a thread to TGB. Thanks in advanced.
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manner plz |
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There is obviously something wrong with this person tonight.
I know I said I would not post any more but I can't contain myself. My biggest issue with Kilroy is that he/she thinks that her problems trump over everyone else's problems. Every time someone expresses their opinion based on personal experience, she feels like she has to one up him or her making the other person's experiences null. This is true with many people who are a member of some sort of sub-group. There is always someone who is worse off and as a result has a wiser than thou mentality. In Kilroy's case, he is a member of a sexual minority, and every time a topic about sexuality comes up she starts blasting the big guns about how nobody can understand how truly difficult it is to be her. Get off your high horse. Everyone has issues, some worse than others. Some people get high off of the drama that they create around their lives, and honestly, you seem like one of those people. Go take a Valium. |
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Ok, so far for "civilized", we have:
-Manner! |
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mad furry is mad
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kilroy is TG i get it now
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so you're TG kilroy. what's the big deal
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The big deal is that is all she is. She has no other sense of identity except for the fact that she is transgendered. Find a hobby. It doesn't have to consume your life.
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okay so why do you feel so disenfranchised as a TG
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obv the point of OP is over your head. |
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what is your point |
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Kilroy, I don't know what's going on but you need a couple days off. (That's a pretty lenient sentence with what I could give you.) You know the policies of CT.
To those who posted only to make this thread worse, knock that shit off. |
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