"Iran before the Islamic revolution" vibes.
I barely have knowledge about the middle east so idk what youre referencing.
Its not orientalist or atheist its manufacturing consent for invasion and genocide.
I think it's all those things.
Even when you're praising people while being orientalist, you're 1D-ing people down closer to a homogenous blob. Suddenly negative stereotypes about that race are more popularly applied on a homogenous level too.
Well I grew up in that kind of enviroment, but now that I'm out of it im encountering other immature covert abusers. Who might not straight up have a personality disorders and who are simply immature downpunchers. They'll wait until I'm alone with them to strike. Now i have these windows of being bullied where I came start defending myself and not face mortal fear. Idk where to start.
There are victims of incest so generally nah, but it is a funny way to make fun of eugenicists.
"Highschool politics are bullshit but if you can play them its pretty easy not to be at the bottom of the food chain."
I'm no longer in highschool (see edited title) but yes that can be true.
Capitalism has hijacked what the general public views as a "grown up". So i don't say grow up. People who act immature are still having a legit adulthood. It just that that's what their adulthood looks like.
My issue is not that they're not grown ups. My issue is that they're self projecting cowards who don't deal with their own bullshit insecurities. That they're downpunchers trying to make me absorb their damage.
Now I'm trying to not change minds. Skipping explaining that they're sad and should punch upwards, and simply being confronting about what they're doing. Responding coldly.
Lol I used to know people who actually act like the characters and so the chaos of the show stung for a while. But in the past year I finally learned to love it because my brain can register it's just a show.
I know someone whose good at both, giving withering roasts and grey rocking. They confronted my bullies. One avoided the confrontation by hiding in another room with the door closed. The other was smarmy and denied ever doing what they did to me. My friend is pretty impenetrable when it comes to gradeschool-level bullying. This was all done when we confronted them completely peacefully. He understands the quote, "no one can make you feel inferior without your consent." I think the beginning of me understanding that quote is to learn how to speak up for myself. And that involves taking risks.
I understand there are abusers with personality disorders, but I've seen my friend shut down even those people. There are people who are simply immature abusers without personality disorders, and I mostly want to start standing up to them. Either way, when someone is incapable of taking accountability for their wrongs, I want to show they shouldn't try to step on me to begin with. People avoid mistreating my friend and I want that treatment by being just as witty as him.
I wasn't very clear and edited the title. I probably haven't interacted with actual public school students for years now. I just mean 10-20 year old levels because I never started socializing in environments where I'm allowed to talk back until the past few years, and i need to start somewhere. I don't talk to middle to highschool aged kids. A lot of adults act that young and dehumanize me in the style of lame kids.
I just looked up smarmy. It's a great word to define a lot of the public personas of covert abusers I've known. What a great word.
How so? Because I strongly feel that but I don't know exactly how.
Is it really? because I've felt this is a pattern but I didn't know it's true 100% of the time.
Yes on the gruesome part, they would do a smear campaign pretending that I'm their bully.
One of them loved to cut peoples lifelines and doom them to threat of literal death. They had a job they said they loved. In it they enjoyed firing people in the most crushing ways they could think of speaking. I would ask them "how was work?" and they call every single person they talked to at work "stupid" "fucking stupid" or "stupid as fuck." It was at a work place they hated being abused at before they got promoted to the position of firing people. Then they loved how abusive the workplace was. They were the boss's favorite pet. I have no idea if the world is literally better off without this agressive lifeline cutter. If it is, I won't be the one to tell them.
The other person that they bullied me with acts like this person's vistigeal organ, copying dehumanizing behaviors as if it hurting me protects them from being targeted themselves.
I think i just need to just comment on their immaturity or roast them in a very simple way that discourages them.