Comment by fhdkweig
5 days ago
> Got it. Doomerism will fix the fact that there will always be assholes/people trying to break systems for their own gain.
I know you put a lot of effort into typing all that, but I just stopped reading at sentence #2.
Doomerism isn't about fixing things. It is about knowing when you are beaten and just give up. The Serentity Prayer says "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference."
I really wanted to believe that people were better, but they just aren't. My white brother married a Chinese girl in summer of 2016. My parents were so happy for their first child to finally get married. By 2018, they told him that if he had a "mongrel" baby, they would never come to visit.
People were always this evil, they just hid it better. In 2016, they gave themselves permission to be evil in the open, and they ran with it.
So they had to hide it previously because why? Because it's not who we are (the larger we). Saying it IS who we are isn't true AND normalizes their horrible behavior, gives them permission to be awful.
Some people suck, some people will always suck. That doesn't mean we can't aspire to build on the good, to override/reduce the shitiness. That doesn't mean we label the whole irredeemable. Are you the same as them? Doesn't sound like it. And why aren't you? Because it's not who we are.
40% of people still support what’s going on. Would you want to be in a friend group where 4/10 hated you because of the color of your skin if your sexuality?
You are ignoring that who we are required these people to hide it, and to raise children that don't agree with the belief and who didn't care about race when marrying. WHO WE ARE did that, these parents didn't do that.
A system that is getting rid of hate in peoples kids so they don't carry what their parents did IS MAKING THINGS BETTER.
I was jumped and beaten at San Jose State late at night in the 90s because I was white and my friend was Mexican and we were walking around where we weren't allowed I guess. Some Black people hate whites. I don't hate Black people because X out of 10 hate whites or because I was jumped. By your logic I should I guess. That will definitely improve things and build a better society. Thanks for sharing your productive world view.