It’s about a real problem absolutely, and a problem that is worthy of discussion but just this thought process rings so false (at least, among the priviliged western users whom I think make up a large percentage of us.)
I can agree if you take it at its most literal. I was thinking op didn’t believe people think that exact sequence of words tho, so much as similar, but softer, sequences over much longer periods of time. Like, a person thinking “I’m glad my son is a serial predator instead of gay” is almost definitely not happening anywhere, but thinking about the various factors that play into this kind of predation as the, unfortunately, often highly normalized things that they are, is happening in just about every corner of the earth.
Their phrasing wasn’t ideal, but what they’re expressing is, in my mind at least, very hard to argue in good faith as false.
It’s about a real problem absolutely, and a problem that is worthy of discussion but just this thought process rings so false (at least, among the priviliged western users whom I think make up a large percentage of us.)
I can agree if you take it at its most literal. I was thinking op didn’t believe people think that exact sequence of words tho, so much as similar, but softer, sequences over much longer periods of time. Like, a person thinking “I’m glad my son is a serial predator instead of gay” is almost definitely not happening anywhere, but thinking about the various factors that play into this kind of predation as the, unfortunately, often highly normalized things that they are, is happening in just about every corner of the earth.
Their phrasing wasn’t ideal, but what they’re expressing is, in my mind at least, very hard to argue in good faith as false.