Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago[CW: Slurs] Any attempt to connect with my dad immediately turns into "Woke liberals are ruining the world."NSFWlemmy.caimagemessage-square90fedilinkarrow-up1305arrow-down134file-text
arrow-up1271arrow-down1image[CW: Slurs] Any attempt to connect with my dad immediately turns into "Woke liberals are ruining the world."NSFWlemmy.caZoidsberg@lemmy.ca to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square90fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarefbbfan_ar@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago They see everything through a political lens. IMO everything is, in fact, political. The problem is seeing everything to an irrational and wrong political lens.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoOh my god dude look up what “lens” means. Like, you can look at everything through the lens of subatomic physics. And you can look through other lenses too. The existence of the other lenses does not imply the lack of existence or even ubiquity of the subatomic realm.
minus-squarefbbfan_ar@lemmynsfw.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThe “lens” that considers certain people less than human or devoid of rights is not a valid viewpoint, is antisocial and it doesn’t deserve respect.
minus-squarenieceandtows@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoIf everything is political then nothing is political.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoyou realize that doesn’t magically become true because you state so, right?
minus-squareTlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoThat idiom only works with relative terms. “When everyone is rich, then no one will be” Not “When everyone is blond, then no one will be”
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IMO everything is, in fact, political.
The problem is seeing everything to an irrational and wrong political lens.
Oh my god dude look up what “lens” means.
Like, you can look at everything through the lens of subatomic physics. And you can look through other lenses too. The existence of the other lenses does not imply the lack of existence or even ubiquity of the subatomic realm.
The “lens” that considers certain people less than human or devoid of rights is not a valid viewpoint, is antisocial and it doesn’t deserve respect.
If everything is political then nothing is political.
you realize that doesn’t magically become true because you state so, right?
That idiom only works with relative terms.
“When everyone is rich, then no one will be”
Not “When everyone is blond, then no one will be”