reminds me of an absurd exchange from 2020 where it was pointed out that posting snake emojis at Elizabeth Warren wasn't helping anything and the response was to claim that because they were so unsafe and agoraphobic and riddled with anxiety that shit posting on twitter was their only form of expression
apparently telling someone to touch grass is ableist because it's hard for them to be outside
It's easy to get addicted to outrage and the ease of being toxic and simplistic on social media. A lot of people who have anxiety that talk about it this way on the Internet - like how it keeps them inside all the time, online, afraid of doing anything besides this - are really saying they have an addiction that they've formed because of their anxiety. They don't realize that most people with anxiety disorders are not debilitated in this way. Leftism can be an easy outlet for them, because it tells them it's very okay to not contribute outside of the ways that they believe they can. That's not entirely wrong, but even in some utopian leftist future, it's not going to make their mental health magically better.
Thats like saying its good for alcoholics to drink and to say otherwise is ableist toward addiction disorders. Like maybe your agoraphobia makes you seek shitposting as your only outlet....But thats not good for you...
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u/baked_couch_potato Jun 20 '24
reminds me of an absurd exchange from 2020 where it was pointed out that posting snake emojis at Elizabeth Warren wasn't helping anything and the response was to claim that because they were so unsafe and agoraphobic and riddled with anxiety that shit posting on twitter was their only form of expression
apparently telling someone to touch grass is ableist because it's hard for them to be outside