Since this mini-thread sparked a rather diverse array of comments and it's unwieldy to reply to them individually, here's where I'm at...
It is not my job to fix the massive array of personal failures that lead someone to vote for Trump.
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It is not my job to fix the massive array of personal failures that lead someone to vote for Trump.
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I'm not Trump voters' teacher, counselor or pastor.
It is not my job to educate them on why it's important to give a damn about others.
It isn't my job to persuade them that being racist or supporting one makes someone suck as a person.
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It is not my job to educate them on why it's important to give a damn about others.
It isn't my job to persuade them that being racist or supporting one makes someone suck as a person.
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It isn't my job to pull other adults under a comforting wing now that their decisions have proven to be unwise.
If a person acted out of ignorance, it's on them to seek out an education.
If a person acted selfishly, it's on them to develop better character.
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If a person acted out of ignorance, it's on them to seek out an education.
If a person acted selfishly, it's on them to develop better character.
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There is nothing I find more galling than people like the woman in this video.
I absolutely cannot stand people who experience some form of personal hardship and react as if they just discovered that hardship actually exists in the world.
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I absolutely cannot stand people who experience some form of personal hardship and react as if they just discovered that hardship actually exists in the world.
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I cannot stand when people who lay out the sorrows that just befell them in a way that completely reveals that they never gave a remote thought to the fact that other people endure these things and worse every. single. day.
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The subtext is "ISN'T ALL OF THIS HORRIBLE - THESE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING TO MEEEEE"?
If you didn't think it was horrible before it was you, I'm the wrong tree to shake for empathy.
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If you didn't think it was horrible before it was you, I'm the wrong tree to shake for empathy.
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This is all just me. Call it "tough love". Call it "hard lessons". Call it "being too damn busy worrying about the actual victims".
I ain't taking on the freight of 'fixing' people who arrived at adulthood caring only for themselves though. That's on them.
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I ain't taking on the freight of 'fixing' people who arrived at adulthood caring only for themselves though. That's on them.
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If others want to try, feel free. Godspeed and I wish you nothing but complete and utter success.
That ain't me though nor will it be in the future. I'd rather invest 100 hours in reaching the disengaged than 1 hour trying to persuade someone on the wrong side - by choice
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That ain't me though nor will it be in the future. I'd rather invest 100 hours in reaching the disengaged than 1 hour trying to persuade someone on the wrong side - by choice
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