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WhiskeyGrinder

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11. Thanks for reconsidering your approach.
Tue Dec 20, 2022, 10:02 AM
Dec 2022
But in the mean time, shouldn't how we treat each other matter more than how our internal clockwork (thoughts) works?
Sure, but fascists, Republicans and bigots aren't doing this. So do you insist to them that internal clockwork doesn't matter? Because to them it absolutely does, as it does to the people they're targeting. You can, I suppose, but it's not an effective approach.

It's like people who insist race doesn't matter. Race and gender are both social constructs that matter hugely in any society. Culture is built around them. They *shouldn't* matter, but they do. Which is why I say that the concept of *should* doesn't matter, because people are acting cruel and terrible ways anyway.

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