Thoughts?
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Sounds like this person doesn't understand empathy, which seems to be a common thing on the Right. It's way easier to say "F them, I got mine" when you have no basic empathy for other humans.
They aren't talking about empathy, this is something else. It's about the guilt of feeling happiness in a world that seems like it's going in the wrong direction.
That guilt is understandable, but when it becomes so pervasive that you feel the need to express that guilt on every single expression of joy, that seems unhealthy for society, and it makes people much less likely to join a movement.
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I get the impression that when he says "find your own way out," he actually means "stop caring."
I take it more as "find a way to come to terms with it" don't let it ruin your every personal moment
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I've definitely done this, but I hate the way this is phrased. This makes it sound like the left are a big club with rules: "Thou shalt first acknowledge how shit the world is, or else." What BS. It disallows for the possibility that this is actually how people are feeling. They must be doing it because of social pressure. I don't think anyone on either side of the political divide would admonish you if you just posted about your engagement, but (for myself at least) it's legitimately how I feel about things right now. 100%, A-grade, home grown despair, baby! I ackowledge it because it's really how I feel, not because my friends would chastise me if I didn't.
Hear hear!
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Jake makes two mistakes: doesn’t realize people actually feel this way and thinks of people on the left as some organized group who stage this.
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I agree with this.
As a leftist, celebrate life and fight so others can have those celebrations. Checking your privilege can be an entrance to that battlefield, but it can also stall out there. And it can feel like something important has been done because of how much feeling it has. But stalling out there does nothing to liberate anyone.
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I propose a replacement trend:
- "FUCK ICE we had a baby!"
- "BURN DOWN THE PATRIARCHY and come to my wedding!"
- "BE GAY DO CRIME it's my Birthday!!"
- "ORCAS ATTACK YACHTS let's have a goddamned LAN party!"
- "PUNCH A NAZI I got my PhD!"
The US is funding GENOCIDE. Bake sale today!
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i wonder if Jake Eaton is a young white cis male with a comfortable safety net
I'd say a chunk of his social circle is men and women like that, this behaviour has white guilt written all over it.
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How can this person sit there and say this and not acknowledge being kidnapped off the street by a terrorist group for nothing else other than having brown skin or dare being gender fluid and think for a second life can just go back to being normal?
What the actual fuck is wrong with you, Jake.
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Someone isn't afraid of losing their rights
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I completely agree, there's a definite layer of leading with a statement that you're on the right side of whatever the dominant demographic feels strongly about. It seems like if you aren't personally suffering enough it means you're part of the problem. Call it non-poverty guilt?
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They aren't talking about empathy, this is something else. It's about the guilt of feeling happiness in a world that seems like it's going in the wrong direction.
That guilt is understandable, but when it becomes so pervasive that you feel the need to express that guilt on every single expression of joy, that seems unhealthy for society, and it makes people much less likely to join a movement.
They lack empathy is my point. The person doesn't understand why the Right fucking everyone over constantly would make people feel bad/sad/depressed. The thought of others doesn't even occur to them, it's all about them, how they are the victim.
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If you keep basing your enjoyment of life of what other people say, it doesn't matter what they say, you'll be miserable.
Politics are politics, your feelings are your feelings, keep those apart for your own sanity.
