This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
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This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
@jensorensen
Spot on! -
This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
Polarization : 2020's :: Class warfare : 1990's
And 60% of America has no fucking clue what any of the above means or how to read it.
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@jensorensen I've often felt the same about the word 'divisive'. People who draw attention to a division are so often accused of causing the division.
All it comes down to is people who prefer ignoring problems over solving them. People who, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, "prefer a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice."
@Catriona @jensorensen I ghosted on a 30 year friendship after hearing her say if people just stopped talking about race then people wouldn't get upset about it. A few vodka lemonades later and she thought it was a good time to reveal her very shallow understanding of the world with me. Uncomfortable topics are easier to deal with if they are ignored
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This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
@jensorensen It's hard to emphasize enough how much of the "polarization" is indeed just someone saying "those people should be dead" versus someone else saying "I'd rather not be dead."
But what's really sick is how much this country bends over backwards to give air time to the ones who say "those people should be dead." The person who says "I'd rather not be dead" has to word things very carefully to even be heard. The one who wants them dead gets quoted verbatim.
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This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
When one pole is Nazis, I must insist on polarization.
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This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
@jensorensen This certainly explains the alarm bells that go off in my head when I hear people say it.
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This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
Funny how the accommodation in committee is always achieved in one direction
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This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
@jensorensen fascism relies on people submitting before they're even asked to
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Polarization : 2020's :: Class warfare : 1990's
And 60% of America has no fucking clue what any of the above means or how to read it.
@OvertonDoors @jensorensen I was going to say I wouldn't be surprised if this cartoon goes straight over the heads of 60% of Americans.
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This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
@jensorensen
How about people murdering healthcare CEO-s? -
@jensorensen I've often felt the same about the word 'divisive'. People who draw attention to a division are so often accused of causing the division.
All it comes down to is people who prefer ignoring problems over solving them. People who, as Martin Luther King Jr. said, "prefer a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice."
Yeah, absolutely this.
I get very annoyed by senior leadership types who use "divisive" to mean "disagreeing with me", ignoring their own instances of genuinely divisive behaviour.
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This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
@jensorensen completely disagree. Used polarisation precisely because it’s extremism becoming evident at both ends of the spectrum and mastodons might like to think on that.
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@jensorensen
How about people murdering healthcare CEO-s?@jensorensen @kupac A clear self-defense case. -
This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
@jensorensen Question for our hard of hearing comrades: does capitalized alt text sound as yelling in your applications ?
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