Lololita
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jan 19, 2017
Social Justice Warriors - Now With Less Feminism Sperging
- Thread starter José Mourinho
- Start date
- Joined
- Feb 8, 2018
That's a real scientific phenomenon though of altered stress profiles based on epigenetic control and was studied in the children of Holocaust survivors.
Just recently a study was published that used a mouse model and found that stress could be transmitted between partners via pheromones, and the alterations in the brain were indistinguishable between the one who had experienced the trauma first-hand and the partner who received it second-hand.
The key thing is, as pointed out by the researchers, this isn't necessarily completely negative and undesirable. This is likely the result of an evolutionary adaptation that enables social animals to avoid dangers and survive. It might lead to anxiety disorders in those in close proximity (partner, child) to someone who lived through a traumatic experience, but the reason we and other animals have this adaptation is probably because it's beneficial overall.
Of course none of this applies to people who are 400 years removed from their ancestor who had a miserable existence, though I'm sure that won't stop them from claiming PPPPPPTSD symptoms.
- Joined
- Feb 15, 2018
There is actually something like that. In Alaska, where I am, the vast majority of homeless and substance abusers are Indigenous, roughly 70%. A reason for this is during a period after America got it, they forcibly took kids from their homes and put them in boarding schools meant to assimilate them into American culture. This had a huge effect on everyone involved, to the point where the population's gene expression (epigenetics) was affected. A few generations later and you have an entire ethnic group prone to depression and self-destructive behavior.
But yeah, reading that wiki article, it's hard to buy Holocaust survivor's grandchildren needing therapy.
Edit: ninja'd
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2013
Well, it does make sense that the child of a slave, or a Holocaust survivor might suffer if their parents are dealing with a serious mental illness. (PTSD in this case). BUT, that doesn't mean you're a victim of slavery, or the Holocaust. Because not everyone suffers from trauma the same way. Not everyone goes on and abuses their kids, or their spouse. Just like not all victims of child molestation will go on and become child molestors too. It's so much more complex than that. Otherwise, almost the entire world would be majorly fucked up.
(It's also a cop-out. If you ARE suffering from some sort of trauma that makes you abuse your family, then fucking get help. There's no excuse for child abuse, or spousal abuse.)
Edited: already addressed. Good points.
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2017
Argumentum ad death toll drives me crazy. Mass killings often have more to do with broader historical circumstances as they do with ideology or personality. This sort of number-tallying also fails to distinguish between deliberate exterminations, deaths due to failed systems and cases that fall in between (e.g., the many people who inevitably died during the industrialization of the USSR). But, no, it's so much more satisfying to say, "This guy whom I've decided represents your position killed 1000000000000 people therefore I win hahahaha." This style of argument turns real tragedies into a kind of blunt instrument for one-upping people.
It should also go without saying that it's silly to qualify "Joseph Stalin, Kills: 23 million" with a disclaimer while attaching a totally imaginary death toll to Trump and also failing to qualify other death tolls that are necessarily approximate. (e.g., Nobody knows just how many people were exterminated in the Congo Free State because there weren't reliable censuses conducted before that period.)
It is useful to consider the fact that where and when you're born probably determines whom you consider to be a mass murderer and whom you consider to be a strong and effective leader who was operating during difficult times, but that's pretty much the only useful thing I think it's possible to draw from this graphic.
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2013
To be fair though, Leopold II really WAS a bastard. Even people in colonial times thought he was guilty of crimes against humanity. (He was an asshole in person, too)
- Joined
- Nov 4, 2017
I agree totally-- the Congo Free State has got to be one of the craziest chapters in the imperialist era. I think that this type of argumentation trivializes these actual tragedies by turning into a kind of inverted dick-measuring contest and by reducing these events to the consequence of a single person's ideological convictions or personality.
I more often see right-wingers applying this tactic against socialists than the other way around, probably just because you can make some really big numbers by lumping together the USSR, the PRC, the DPRK and the Khmer Rouge as a proxy for whomever you happen to be arguing with, but this graphic demonstrates that the stupidity cuts both ways.
Wallace
kiwifarms.net
- Joined
- Jun 23, 2015
It's just another tool in the arsenal of the professional victim. Nothing is ever their fault, and they are due reparations for slights that happened generations ago.
- Joined
- Nov 11, 2016
So, we've seen that the POC community screams that they want more black heroes and then wants money cut to the 'community' when Hollywood puts in a black protagonist.
As usual, when one group puts its hand out you can see what will happen next:
Get working on giving random twitter idiot 1 billion dollars because you didn't make her movie, Marvel.
Also, 99.4% that "Gabi," who constantly yells about how much of a lesbian she is, has a dick.
As usual, when one group puts its hand out you can see what will happen next:
Get working on giving random twitter idiot 1 billion dollars because you didn't make her movie, Marvel.
Also, 99.4% that "Gabi," who constantly yells about how much of a lesbian she is, has a dick.
- Joined
- Jun 7, 2016
I like how they're going on and on about how there isn't a LGBT superhero movie when Deadpool absolutely killed it in theaters. I know he ended up with an icky straight in the end, but isn't his canon pansexuality enough for these people? It's not like he shied away from the gay references in that movie
- Joined
- Feb 28, 2015
i'd like to introduce you to my friend stephen, the lesbian
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2017
Because they want the LGBTQW/E to not be white male, depraved, cartoony individuals. Deadpool is living a great sexual life; he doesn't suffer from it, he isn't oppressed because of it, he cracks silly jokes about it all the time. You can't have that, it isn't realistic. They won't take anything else than some carboard cutout dramatic mary sue exposing xher trans neo penis to everyone every two shots of the movie.
Remember, it's never enough, you can never win with these leeches.
- Joined
- Jan 15, 2018
Gabi, important message for you: AIN'T NO ONE OWE YOU SHIT!
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2013
A billion dollars for every member of the LGBT community?
- Joined
- Jul 1, 2017
I'd be amazed to find someone who wouldn't have gay sex for a billion dollars.
- Joined
- Feb 7, 2013
I had to use that one only because I couldn't find a gif of him saying "I CLAIM TO BE GAY," which makes more sense. Quel dommage
- Joined
- Feb 3, 2018
Lol, like in that old joke:
"What would you do if you were a billionaire?" - "Pay a millionaire to blow me!"
Considering how you don't need to engage in gay sex to proclaim yourself gay yeah it would be a good idea to say you're gay in order to get money sure why not.Even the biggest homophobes would probably accept saying they're gay for a billion dollars.
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2016
uh-huh, yeah that totally happened
Shit, might even have been the ancestors of these people who grabbed her great-great-great whatever(s). They didn't call interior Africa the white man's graveyard for nuthin'.