#normalization

[eccentricphilosoph]

So true. I always lived my life being proud of being weird and that things I did weren’t perceived as normal. It’s worked out well enough for me overall.

Not everything has to be nor does it need to be normalized.

Let’s normalize people being weird and different in general rather than normalize all specific things.

[randomly-generated-posts-machine]

normalize @pukicho denormalize calling it "x"

[tales-from-syscord]

Jeez sometimes I wish the normalization wasn’t 100% total source separation = everyone and anyone’s goal, ever, sometimes, especially since it seems so unfair who gets targeted with it. I’ve been in servers where I specifically was told to go by another name, not talk about source stuff, etc, because of my own identity. I get people being uncomfortable around me at times but when even ex friends were being all “who invited J” “Who let J fill out that quiz?” “Haha, why is she here?”

A lot of people also got VERY weird when I wanted to talk about my boyfriend by name, because of source implications again! I don’t know how they always spew the same “introject aren’t their source” (which is super complicated for us since,, I am but I’m also very much not? Dunno.) and yet when I’m dating another introject from the same source and I talk about how much I love the man, suddenly I’m basically a proshipper because I’m evil and he’s “canon gay” (he’s bi.)

I wish people would just! Decide what they believe? Certain introjects are treated super unfairly and people really seem to forget they’ve been preaching that introjects aren’t their source when it comes to an introject commonly thought to be exclusively mlm dating a woman or similar,

Be normal about people’s relationships pleaseeeee

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[netscapenavigator-official]

I love when TikToks or YouTube Shorts of drag queens (or whatever) breech containment and make it onto straight people's front pages, and they're just normal about it. Like, a video of some drag queen giving life advice, and all the cishet dudes in the comments are like "She's spitting facts! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥☝️🚫🧢"

Like, I know we're not supposed to reward straight people for the bare minimum, but there's just something so comforting and heartwarming about people who are total strangers to our community, looking into it, and being completely normal about it.

They're not substantializing it, and they're not denying it. They're just being totally normal about it. Nothing makes me feel more valid and welcome in this world than normalization. Just having other people treat me like the human being I am, not some clown for entertainment or abomination for arguing about. It just feels good when cishet people treat queer folk as their equals; Nothing more, nothing less.

[girlactionfigure]

And so it begins.

[olena]

The firehose of falsehood, also known as firehosing, is a propaganda technique in which a large number of messages are broadcast rapidly, repetitively, and continuously over multiple channels (such as news and social media) without regard for truth or consistency. An outgrowth of Soviet propaganda techniques, the firehose of falsehood is a contemporary model for Russian propaganda under Russian President Vladimir Putin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firehose_of_falsehood

(fuck that guy 🇺🇦🖕)

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A big lie (German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth primarily used as a political propaganda technique.

The German expression was first used by Adolf Hitler in his book Mein Kampf (1925) to describe how people could be induced to believe so colossal a lie because they would not believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously". Hitler claimed that the technique had been used by Jews to blame Germany's loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist political leader in the Weimar Republic.

According to historian Jeffrey Herf, the Nazis used the idea of the original big lie to turn sentiment against Jews and justify the Holocaust. Herf maintains that Nazi Germany's chief propagandist Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party actually used the big lie technique that they described – and that they used it to turn long-standing antisemitism in Europe into mass murder.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie

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Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 by Alberto Brandolini, an Italian programmer, that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. The law states:

The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

The rise of easy popularization of ideas through the internet has greatly increased the relevant examples, but the asymmetry principle itself has long been recognized.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law

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The Gish gallop is a rhetorical technique in which a person in a debate attempts to overwhelm an opponent by abandoning formal debating principles, providing an excessive number of arguments with no regard for the accuracy or strength of those arguments and that are impossible to address adequately in the time allotted to the opponent. Gish galloping prioritizes the quantity of the galloper's arguments at the expense of their quality.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

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The Overton window is the range of policies politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

[thepersonalquotes]

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

Alfred Adler

[wat3rm370n]

Public Health has “public” in it for a reason.

Public health solutions require normalized adoption of mitigation methods across the broad public. Buying into stigma by seeking “discreet” solutions is individualist hopium. The known effective solutions to infectious disease require uptake of measures at a community level — such as high uptake of vaccines, normalization of respirator mask use, and adoption of air filtration in indoor spaces. Nothing is going to happen “behind the scenes” to save anyone in a secret “stroke of genius” by some prominent people, nor by randos disseminating “hidden knowledge” of special products. Anyone claiming that is is likely peddling a bamboozle.

My strategy remains as ever: use proven measures whenever possible, don’t waste money on potentially harmful devices or unproven potions, pester your elected representatives for public health solutions for the problem of disease spread, and be the change you want to see by rejecting stigma.

[yourfriendlyneighborhoodem]

Normalizing something doesn’t make it right. Lemme repeat that for my friends in the back:

Normalizing something doesn’t make it right.

[nando161mando]

[juicebokks]

What is the problem with Latinos in the media? 

In the midst of Hispanic Heritage Month, I think it’s very important to acknowledge the problems and faults of Latinos in media. When many people think of a Latino influencer, they may thing of this stereotypical “copy paste” Latino that encourage or try to normalize problematic behavior. Now, while this “type” of Mexican or Latino identity in and of itself is not necessarily bad, it does portray Latinos in a bad light. That is where I would like to bring up the question, “What is the problem with Latinos in the media?”. 

The types of people we chose to allow to represent us are the people we are showing to the world to say, “This is what Mexican is”. In hindsight, many of these people represent an uneducated, toxic, and sexualized culture. Again, just to preface, there is nothing wrong with being less intelligent, or having faults, or being a sexual person, however, I do believe that it isn’t fair to the people that try to represent Latinos as hard working, strong, smart, creative, and accountable. These issues are what the problem is with Latinos in the media. 

Many of us Latinos tend to feel underrepresented in places like Hollywood, most of the biggest names in the entertainment industry playing a lot of the same roles. Instead of embracing this “copy paste Latino” we should embrace the differences we all have. All Latinos are different, we have different interests, we look different, we pursue different jobs. A single visual trait does not define what you are or what you aren’t. Curly hair, straight hair, blondes, brunettes, redheads, big noses, small noses, tall, short, skinny, fat, and others are all traits that any Latino can have. One characteristic does not “make you Mexican”.  

The big issue with Latinos in the media is the people we chose to let represent us. Women like Antonia Hernández, the first Latina staff to the counsel of the Senate Judiciary, and men like José Moreno Hernández, a Mexican American engineer and astronaut are forgotten and marginalized. Famous names like Jenni Rivera, Selena Quintanilla, Juan Gabriel, Vicente Fernandez, and Ana Gabriel, represent so much of our culture and our struggles as a community, but are slowly being drowned out by modern influencers that want to normalize high school dropouts, sexualizing minors, toxic relationships, and people who want to misguide our youth. 

Hispanics make up a large chunk of the students that drop out of school every year. Latinos throughout history have always prided themselves on being hardworking and having grit. However, our education rates don’t reflect that aspect at all. There are many Hispanics who have reasons as to why they are incapable of finishing school, but so many of us have the facilities and resources to help us complete our lowest levels of education, but for some reason we ignore them. We choose to embrace this stereotype that Latinos are dumb or uneducated.  

Our youth are being sexualized and preyed on before our eyes, but these issues go unnoticed by our community because we are so caught up in toxic influencer culture. These are the harmful pieces of representation that we are choosing to let represent our community. 12-year-olds online have grown men and women sexualizing them and shaming them for being themselves. These destructive routines create unpromising futures for our youth and future generations if these are the experiences that kids from today are having. 

The rate of domestic abuse in Hispanics is getting higher and higher, and the number of influencers that regularize abuse and toxicity is not going to help bring that rate down. Domestic abuse is a serious issue that isn’t spoken about very often. Teaching kids and other adults the things to look out for is what will help our community break through this cycle of generational abuse and trauma. 

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we should use platforms to spread kindness, to embrace the positive aspects of our culture, and reform the way that Latinos in media are being represented. We can all bring unity back to our community, but it all starts with yourself. 

Happy Hispanic Heritage month, and si, somos Latinos! 

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

Writing in Alaraby, Hulmi al-Asmar writes that normalization maybe isn't so bad - that perhaps if Arab nations act nicely to Israel, Israel will implode from infighting since it is dependent on aggression.

Setting aside his main argument, al-Asmar gives a brief description of how Arab leaders have used the Palestinian issue for their own benefit, and how they have actually hurt the Palestinians with this cynical pretense. For years, official Arab discourse used to murmur a heavy [Palestinian] "nationalist" sentiment, to the effect that "Palestine is the Arabs' top issue." From this slogan, a series of canned phrases emerged that affirmed standing by the Palestinian people and calling for their victory. Preachers filled the space with resonant speech in forums all over the world, and printed millions of pages with them. Books, poems, and commentaries were written about it, and they pulled their voices and roared their throats with enthusiastic songs. Millions of statements, and thousands of conferences and summits were also held, all of which threatened the enemy, or at least “confirmed its position in support of the Palestinian people, and their right to establish their independent state and defeat the occupation.” More than that, under the heading of “confronting the Zionist threat,” billions were spent on arming their armies, while morsels of bread were withheld from the mouths of the hungry, in preparation for the decisive battle with the “enemy” to build what they called “Arab national security,” and for that purpose legislation, emergency laws, and martial law were enacted. How can it not, when the nation is in a state of war and on constant alert? Therefore, there is no time for the luxury of “democracy,” nor for the “mockery” of elections, social justice, and other rights. This is not the time (!), as the nation is passing through a “delicate circumstance” and a “turning point.” It is a "dangerous time in history" and a "sensitive stage" that requires not paying attention to these "trivialities", and focusing effort on confronting "the enemy's plans" aimed at tearing apart the Arab ranks, and undermining "national dignity and nationalism!", etc., to the end of this series of great lies that may have passed on the minds of the "masses"... So what was the result? Israel is expanding and strengthening every day, while Palestine is withering, and its nakba has been “Arabized” and reproduced. It was not limited to the Palestinian people, but the Arab regime produced other versions and more and revised versions of the Arab catastrophes, so that almost every Arab country has its own nakba. 

This is stuff we've been saying for many years.  It is rare indeed to see these words in Arabic:

[cinemafromcinema]

“You can’t put lipstick on that pig and make it look good”

[catgirl-catboy]

Reminder that Cis people get gender affirming surgeries, go on hormones, and feel gender dysphoria too! We just don't use the same language for them because they are so fucking normalized.

[gudamor]

NPR's Steven Innskeep started telling me "If Donald Trump is successful in his plan to deport millions, he won't be the first to do so" and I had to turn the radio off