#^ good what about ism that highlights different experiences and challenges the bubble someone lives in & offers a new perspective | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

neverdoingmuch · 1 year

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the issue with what-about-ism is that it should have been an excellent opportunity to challenge someone's stance by introducing another point of view and expanding the bubble that people live in, and instead it's become an opportunity to suggest extreme edge cases that are treated as a joke rather than an additional voice in the matter (and yeah, most of the time it does feel like a joke if not just a sign of someone missing the point).

#legal talks #i remember seeing a post where someone was talking about how ridiculous it was that someone didn't know what prosciutto was and was very #dubious of the fact that someone wouldn't know what it is #but like... if you don't eat pork products why would you even go in the pork section of the deli or the pork aisle at the supermarket #and there is a significant portion of the population who don't eat pork so it's not ridiculous to point out that some people may not have #seen it or gone to restaurants that sell it etc.#^ good what about ism that highlights different experiences and challenges the bubble someone lives in & offers a new perspective #someone making a post saying hey guys you should look out the window and enjoy the spring vibes and someone saying what about people who #live in basements with no windows #^ bad what about ism. extreme edge case. go outside.#or maybe a lot of people do live in window-less basements... idk i just have dirt walls and floors under my house and we knocked down a wal #and found another room #no one would live there

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