The best way to dehumanize someone while claiming you’re not is to believe you are just the same. You erase their experiences and perspective, their struggles and obstacles, their unique way of having to deal with those things in a world that also erases them. With the words, ‘but humans are humans’ or the bullshit dramatics of ‘we all bleed red’ normal people can simply pretend that if we all did things the way they did, then everything would work out okay. But, yes, we all bleed red but you don’t treat a papercut the same way you treat a gash, you don’t treat an infected wound the same way you treat one that isn’t, you don’t treat a wound to the leg the same way you treat a wound to the gut. You are not acknowledging someone’s personhood when you ignore the very things that make their lives different than yours, and when you refuse to understand that their circumstances have given them their own perspective that is just as valid as yours. More valid in fact – their perspective about their experiences that you haven’t been through is far more valid than anything you could ever think about it.
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The danger of worldviews (Speaking when the world sleeps) Truth bomb if I ever saw one. (via ikenbot) This needs to be read by sooooo many people lol (via xionin) |
Fans of naked Dan (and other Spartacus actors) can now preorder TJ Scott’s In the Tub on Amazon (special limited edition here).
everyone else: tizzy, excitement, fear, what do we do, chat, chat, chat.
nasir: keep calm and carry the fuck on.
I like that Nasir apparently has a gravitational pull that only works on Agron.
No, that works on me to.
This sculpture at Harvard’s Houghton Library is made from more than 4,000 books and has caused something of a scandal. More on scandalous works of library art here.
