It’s called the foot-in-the-door method. First, you propose something that is slightly outside of allowable norms: denying gay people wedding cakes on grounds of “religious freedom”. Then, you slowly ramp up how extreme your demands are, coercing the other side to giving a tiny bit of ground each time, until you’ve shifted the entire fucking playing field. Conservatives are also very fond of the door-to-face method, which is demanding something completely outlandish that you know will be refused, and then asking for something less ridiculous by way of compromise, again resulting in a gradual shift in norms until views that were once considered moderate or reasonable become unthinkably liberal by destroying people’s sense of standards. The combination of these methods is called the “foot-in-the-face” method, which sums up where this whole thing is headed quite nicely.
know what I always disliked when i was growing up? when adults would tell me not to say i hated something because “hate is a strong word.” yeah???? so???? im 9 and i have strong feelings
They had a point though, reckless use of words never works out.
shut the fuck up. i hate you and i hate this dumbass comment
people who don’t care about politics and choose to ignore what’s happening in the world because “it doesn’t affect them” are either tremendously ignorant or straight up evil. having an attitude of “if it’s not happening to me i don’t care” is a personal failure on your part and incredibly offputting to any half decent person around u so like get well soon
Some of it is not about not caring, it is about we can’t care all the fucking time about every shit thing in the world. I literally have compassion fatigue. There is so much shit happening in this country alone that if I don’t filter it I go into a depression and cannot function when I am not having anxiety attacks. Some people who say it doesn’t affect them so they don’t worry about it are literally choosing their battles. The bad side effect of being highly connected is we are forced to see every tine fucked up detail of the world. Things we really can do nothing about as individuals. Living with that kind of helplessness all day every day will literally kill you from stress. Some people choose to care about what they can only affect. I can only fight the battles in front of me, but I can’t save them all. Some people only have enough energy at the end of the day to just take care of their pets. Some people don’t have the luxury of caring about politics if it doesn’t affect them because they are too worried where they will sleep or if they get to eat that day. People are doing the best they can with what they have. While I am one who does care about politics and do what I can, I do not lump people who do less in with the “ignorant” and “evil” because that in itself is incredibly ignorant and only meant to make you feel superior to others.
Get. Well. Soon.
imagine misreading my post this bad ok queen
No dear. I did not misread your post. If you only meant people who were willfully ignorant and purposely want to be douches about politics and use their ignorance as an excuse, then yeah, sure. But that is not how you wrote it. You gave us a blanket statement. But, whatev.
bitch realised they can’t read and blocked me lmfao !!!
this has already been said but like yall still arent listening apparently. this entire hellsite would literally be empty if not for content creators. it would be dead. there wouldnt be photosets or gifsets or anything. it would just be everyone’s shitty textposts with nothing to alleviate them. so maybe yall should start giving content creators some actual fucking credit for making tumblr different from every other social media hellsite out there. why is tumblr so different for fandoms? because of content creators. that’s why. twitter and instagram are what tumblr is without content creators.
My blog except its not tumblr 