Post by BSam on Jun 20, 2013 17:08:26 GMT -5
Yay, thank you Sophie That was what I was saying, and I didn't even realise that myself until this afternoon.
Thing is, you can't really assume that these people don't live up to the values they espouse.
Another thing I dislike (which i think you kind of mentioned) is whenever foreign aid etc gets brought up in a big way there are those people who say "why can't we fix these problems which are happening to our country, instead of giving our money and support to those in other countries"
I'm not assuming you are like this, but that is a pretty jingoistic attitude, and these are the people who are most likely to not actually give a crap about their fellow countrymen, they just dislike the idea of helping foreigners.
If there were no comments you would find the next thing to complain about. And people would find other things to make hurtful comments. There have been so many hurtful comments on me and other white people, because maybe they had pimples or their clothes were not expensive enough or their nose had a strange shape or they played the violin or they were too fat or too skinny or not able to run fast.
That isn't exactly what we're talking about. Yes people shouldn't be bullied, that's bad. But that's a pretty minor list of complaints. I'm not exactly disadvantaged, but if that's my list of how people in this world are treated, I'd feel very lucky.
At a guess, I'd say you're not really in favour of activism because you really don't understand just how bad some peoples lives are, and you seem unable to see things from their perspectives. So you don't get why they are forced to do things like rally against their governments. (similar to the feminism debate, I feel you don't actually understand just how bad the lives of so many women are, which is why you think we don't need more feminism)
I'm sorry for ranting a bit, and possibly making assumptions (especially after how i opened this post). you're an awesome person anka, and these are all just opinions, so one isn't more right than the other. But one is more moral and less selfish(or ignorant)(i don't want to use those words as they seem harsh, but can't think of better words to use) than the other.