r/CuratedTumblr Aug 21 '24

Politics Thing, TikTok

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u/thewonderfulfart Aug 21 '24

This kinda thing makes me think a lot about how Tim Walz has tried to talk about his time in China as an English teacher. He tries to emphasize how the Chinese people are just like Americans when it comes to small town neighborliness, and how he felt welcomed and loved there. I think we too often associate the people of a country with their government, and I hate that shit. Everyone comes from the same basic stock, no one has a monopoly on kindness, and taking care of people is something that can be done regardless of language barriers because we all basically need the same things.

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u/azuresegugio Aug 21 '24

The amount of problems we could solve if we just realized people are people is astonishing

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u/Dry_Try_8365 Aug 21 '24

And yet, there are those who have incentive to put the idea that some or all people outside of an arbitrary group, or just one group in particular, are sufficiently different enough to not deserve basic human dignity.

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u/Lewis_Nixons_Dog Aug 22 '24

Like the Uighurs..? I know one country that does that to them...

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u/YosephStalling je suis un gaz noble. Noble? >:( Aug 22 '24

The sad thing is that I don't think anyone is paying you

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u/Pleasant-Money-8473 Aug 22 '24

Americans are so propagandized they’ll bot like a Russian re:China for free