Two lifelong Republicans leave the GOP in support of trans grandchild - eviltoast
  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    4 months ago

    If you aren’t training people–publicly–to meet the minimums of humanity, people aren’t going to learn it. This is the entire emotional labor argument, writ large. People will say, “I don’t owe you the emotional labor to explain this”, or “you need to educate yourself”, but the reality is that if you don’t, no one will.

    No, it’s not fair. But life isn’t fair. If you want thing to get better, then you need to be better, and you need to keep working to make shit change, instead of expecting everyone to be better on their own. The people that are intrinsically motivated need to motivate all of the people that are extrinsically motivated.

    • SirDerpy@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I believe I’ve invested the emotional labor to explain myself quite well: Good job. But, you need to do better to earn public accolade.

      That’s reality. Though some are still learning they’re not children to be coddled.