as small as a world and as large as alone

9:07am June 8, 2014

patternsmaybe:

plansfornigel replied to your post “It scares me when people say things like “I analyze things at the…”

why? it’s like saying, it’s not about you and if you are a nice white person, but about white supremacy as an institutional oppression. but whatever makes you feel special. who cares.

Because when you stop thinking that the experiences of individual people matter, things go really wrong really quickly.

WTF why do people always talk about this as in ‘feeling special’?

The problem with saying things like “I analyze things in terms of groups of people, individuals don’t matter” is because individual people are the only things that matter in the end.  Without individuals there would be no groups to analyze.  And even if you can get important information out of analyzing the patterns that groups of people make, you still have to acknowledge that the the bottom of everything there are people.  Specific, individual people who are not numbers you can count and analyze and calculate as if who they are doesn’t matter.  And if you lose sight of that, if you lose sight of people as people, you’ve lost sight of the foundation of ethical behavior itself.

“whatever makes you feel special” my ass, it’s not about feeling special, it’s about the fact that people aren’t group-patterns.  "who cares" my ass too, you cared enough to not only write a comment, but leave a little barbed insult at the end.

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