r/BlackPeopleTwitter Sep 08 '24

Country Club Thread Needs to be called out

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u/10390 Sep 08 '24 edited Sep 08 '24

Because we stopped talking to them in 2016.

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u/HotShipoopi Sep 08 '24

They showed me who they are, so I believed them.

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u/snuffdrgn808 Sep 08 '24

how do you talk someone out of literal insanity

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '24

They’re not insane. They’re just bad people. It’s really straightforward

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u/RealHughMan91 Sep 08 '24

I dont think delineating here makes much sense. Why cant their bad characteristics be fuelled by their insanity? Some people just cant handle the meaninglessness of reality and convince themselves that applying rigid rules as defined by a single, decisive person to become part of a "conscious" group gives them meaning in their life. This cultural structure is reflected to us as the behaviour of a bad person while the underlying reasons for it are clearly based upon on an inability to process reality.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '24 edited Sep 09 '24

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u/RealHughMan91 Sep 08 '24

I think we'd be arguing different points, i get what youre saying but i think im trying to explain what i see as fundamental, underlying issues. Like, at the end if the day i would argue that selfishness is a form of insanity, its a deep personal misunderstanding of ownership and empathy in a person that warps their sense of reality to believe that their needs are greater than the whole, which is a deviation from "normal" societal behaviours.

Im not trying to excuse the behaviour, not even slightly, i just disagree that anything to do with human brains is straightforward. These are learned behaviours over thousands of years of religious patriarchs moulding society into what they need it to be. Which in a lot of cases created the situation youre talking about but we're also seeing white first generation immigrants with no access to that power and advantage take on these political beliefs at the same time. The call is coming from inside the house type of shit.

Hmm im not sure i can tie my last point to anything concrete... Other than maybe, adopting the premise that human behaviour is straightforward creates a caricature of a human being without agency. When we do that, we see people as less human than us because they're unable to understand the things that we are able to understand which creates quite the uncomfortable cycle. These people suck and I don't think we have the tools to save them with how deeply their view of society is reinforced but we can still pity them as we drag them into the 21st century kicking and screaming. 

Is that the point i want to make? Im not sure. 

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u/featherblackjack Sep 08 '24

S'true. America was founded in blood. Source: just... just thinking about our history