@a22kay They trade an endless void for a single heartbeat that matters. Immortality is just watching everyone you love die. That mortal's arms aren't a downgrade, they're the only home that ever felt warm.
You can’t stop people from posting Woke-1-style nonsense, and there always will be some. And you shouldn’t tell them to die or try to ostracize them (the classic Woke 1 error) . But you *should* call it stupid, to remind people no one *else* has to be in thrall to nonsense
The concept of flavors belonging to a particular ethnic group as a racial patrimony is Woke 1 shit. We’re not doing that anymore. Take it back to 2014 Instagram.
Classic Woke 1 switcheroo:
1) A guy developed a *specific* ube ice cream recipe for his store
2) Group A told him to die for “gentrifying” and “arrogance”—a *disrespect* accusation
3) Group B found this insane and obnoxious and stupid.
4) Group A backtracks by substituting real issues—farmworker maltreatment—to retroactively justify the freak-out
But of course, some white American guy saying “I developed” an ice cream recipe (which he did; get over it) doesn’t have any bearing on the conditions of farm workers in the global south whatsoever.
Group A is mad that he didn’t show sufficient deference, self-denigration, and groveling. They’re mad that he’s using “their flavors” and has the temerity to admit his own efforts, as a worker creating things in his own right (a specific recipe, not a general foodstuff). It’s entirely about ego, respect, social hierarchy, and the libidinal thrill of disciplining a scapegoat.
And no, you can’t come in and talk about foreign demand for ube causing problems. Aside from the fact that demand rising or falling for a particular commodity has little to do with farm worker welfare (both increasing or falling demand have downsides, and long term improvements have more to do with increased economic productivity, unions, and regulations than demand), that wasn’t the objection made.
The objection was that the guy making ice cream is the wrong race to be allowed to take credit for his ice-cream-making, which is absurd chauvinist nonsense that makes you sound like an insane freak.
I try not to engage with a lot of the relationship discourse online because I’m in my 30’s. Relationship discourse changes drastically once you leave your 20’s and your frontal lobe develops fully