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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 18:48:07 JST Aral Balkan

   • JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

   “Feels like somebody needs to explain this, so I'll try: You know the "racist family member" trope? That's why we have Trump & all the other extreme-rightwing problems in the world.

   Yes, really.

   …

   Simply put: While rampant, deliberate assholery has not been socially policed at all, pushing back against it carries a social death sentence.”

   This right here. I’ve been struggling to express exactly this for a while now.

   @jwcph nails it.

   💯

   Read the whole thread 👇 https://helvede.net/@jwcph/114029855409119327

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 18:52:08 JST Aral Balkan

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     • JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

     @jwcph No, seriously, thank you. This is important.

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     JWcph, Radicalized By Decency (jwcph@helvede.net)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 18:52:10 JST JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

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     @aral Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Feb-2025 19:09:46 JST Aral Balkan

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     • JWcph, Radicalized By Decency

     @jwcph To take this further, I wonder how much of the acceptance of the “racist family member” is the fear that were they to confront the worst embodiments of an unfair and unjust system they benefit from themselves, the whole thread might unravel, threatening their own place of privilege within such a society.

     In other words, how much of it is the implicit, guilty understanding that they are, themselves, fainter echos of said family member; at once disgusted by what they see in the mirror and yet terrified of the consequences of shattering it?