#people don't magically stop having a right to be scared/voice suffering/etc just because someone else has been in a worse situation | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

eisthenameofme · 13 hours ago

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'those stupid *marginalized (but also Priviliged i've decided based on vibes) group facing an increase in political pushback and violence* thinking they have it worse than Anyone Else In The World. they should just shut up about how scared they are.' is not the reasanable take some people seem to think it is.

If you can't recognise something as an issue without deciding it's the Only and Worst issue that has or will ever matter, then that is a Skill Issue and also pathetic.

'Some people have it worse than you so you should shut up' has never been and will never be a good argument, no matter who's trying to use it, whether it's parents alluding to 'children starving in africa' to arbitrarily guilt their own children into eating more food than they comfortably can or anti feminists telling people to shut up about misogyny in one country because people in another country further away have it worse or anyone else doing it

#and yeah i'm aware that in both these examples they're being racist and shit about it too #people don't magically stop having a right to be scared/voice suffering/etc just because someone else has been in a worse situation #not even if you are that person lmao #there being a greater or lesser degree of suffereing does not somehow negate the lesser suffering even if it genuinley IS lesser #and a lot of the times the people saying this shit haven't actually checked whether that's even the case or not #and have no idea what people's individual situations are or what other shit they have going on overlapping with it and making things worse #they are not the ones who need to learn how to shut up #you can feel however about it. feelings aren't always logical and are in themselves neutral.#that doesn't change the fact you should be able to recognise intellectually that this is a bullshit nonesense argument.#in much the same way having had to for example pay off student loans doesn't mean #everyone else in the future should have to go through the same shit just because you did #(as in i think it's the same emotional reaction happening and a similar premise for the idea)#anyway i am once again saying that you can tell people not to panic and point out where they might be jumping ahead on things #without being a raging asshole and also completely dismissive of often very legitimate fears #mypost

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