"facts don't care about your feelings" keeps sticking with me as a catchphrase for bigotry. i dunno if it's relevant anymore, but there's just been something about that phrase in particular that really epitomizes a worldview.

generally i chalk it up to a comical projection. "jesus these are invariably coming from someone overcompensating"

but like.
no i think it's more revealing than that, it's all the "your"

i think what it is, is an unusually straightforward declaration of a war waged against empathy

like, i dunno if people immediately get what i mean when i say this, but i would argue facts *totally* care about feelings.

hello social constructions
hi laws
hey classifications how you doing

our *realities* are built around feelings and that's gonna be the majority of 'facts' we care about

"common sense" is *obviously* a matter of feelings. it's instinctive. and we're talking about people who have to translate their perception of the world through a lens where your instinctive gut reaction is the only truth and everything else you believe is an extrapolation of what you need to believe in order for you to be right.

i get really bothered when transphobia pretends it's not coming from "you are gross"

@heatherhorns_lite It serves to mask the origin of this kind of ideology, both from their own egos and from it being called out.

Transphobia is inextricably linked to nazism and anti-semitism.

@FreyaManibrandr yeah! it's like
i feel it's not a matter of nazi seeds being smuggled into other ideas. it's that they're the same damn plant.

why would you not jump to hating jewish people when you're constructing a world in which there HAS to be that niche for jewish conspiracy to fill

cause there has to be a cabal for the world to work the way you need to believe it does.