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The Coddling of the American Mind

🕑 Added 2025-05-12 16:36:15 +0000 UTC

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Bowl of Piss Water

One of my dad's friends was hit hy a car and died when he was a kid. The way he tells it, his friend would have survived if he had a helmet, so me and my siblings were never allowed to do roller blade or bike without helmets. Wheels = wear a helmet. Point being, that particular survivorship bias didn't take hold in my house when I was growing up.

Markus D

I'm white, but also trans, so I don't experience the same things, but I absolutely have middle-class white family members who are telling me to "stop listening to the news" to help me not be depressed, because a lot of them are privileged to not have to WORRY about things, so they don't properly understand that my reactions are normal reactions to stress and not me getting fucked up by doomscrolling.

Uriah Jackson

Update: I went back to check on the post, and it got better. People were able to help the poster understand micro aggressions better, and the comments complaining about Cara were downvoted. There's still some decent people.

Uriah Jackson

If anyone wants to lose a little more faith in humanity: right after the episode dropped, there was a post on the god awful reddit where someone with zero self-awareness explained that they don't think micro aggressions are a real thing, and that they don't like episodes with Cara because of her views. How is someone like that even still a listener?