Clinical language should not be fluid. It should means something specific so that it can actually be used to help people.
/u/outwrangle before everything went to shit in 2020, /u/emma_lazarus for a while after that, now I’m all queermunist!
Clinical language should not be fluid. It should means something specific so that it can actually be used to help people.
It wasn’t always.
It’s really troubling to me, that people’s relationships with politicians can be compared to intimate relationships.
You’re not wrong I guess.
Ugh.
He was just lying. Gaslighting is a specific thing in abusive relationships, can we not broaden the definition to be “anytime anyone lies about stuff”?
Palestine has never existed as a state. It was supposed to be created for the first time alongside the state of Israel in 1948, but the Arabs rejected the UN transition plan and went to war against the newly formed Israel instead of accepting independence.
It sure sounded like you were saying Palestine is not real.
Let me clarify too - many of the people called “Arabs” in Palestine were descended from Jews that converted to Islam, as well other Levantine and Semitic peoples in the region. It was actually only under the Ottomans that there was this distinction created between Palestinian Arabs and Palestinian Jews, before that many Palestinians can trace their families back to their Jewish roots.
Unfortunately Zionists continued this racist program to further segregate their home into ethnostates instead of forming a single multi-ethnic, multi-religious democracy. Then they got a white European dominated UN to force a racist agreement onto the rest of Palestinians, which would give the best and most land to the Jews while kicking the rest of Palestinians out of their homes. Why the fuck would they agree to a colonial partition plan and let their land be taken from them?
There is no justification for ethnostates. Only a single multi-ethnic, multi-religious democracy from the river to the sea.
The people that lived in that region certainly didn’t think of themselves as British or Ottomans, and neither did the British or the Ottomans. That’s just colonialism.
This revisionist “Palestine isn’t real” nonsense is indistinguishable from the justification for the Holocaust. Jews were seen as parasites without their own nation-state, rootless cosmopolitans and not really people, and so they had to be exterminated. Now the fascists are coming for Palestinians, and with the same fucking justifications as always.
Stop spewing revisionist fascist history. This was the lie that was used to justify the Nakba and it’s the lie they’re using now to justify turning Gaza into a death camp.
Literally the same argument used to genocide the Native Americans.
So we’re just supporting Israel starting a regional war huh?
The death is the point. In their minds, women who die from complications due to pregnancy are being punished by God.
It’d be so easy to make veg dogs look like this. Literally just put different veg in it, boom, different colors.
But no, gotta dye the tube of pig buttholes.
There’s political violence right now.
It’s just overseas.
But what if I’m extremely stupid?
That’s what I’m seeing.
If we apply equal standards to both of them, then Hasan didn’t call Netanyahu a war criminal and Stein didn’t call Putin a war criminal. They both do this weird word dance around the topic.
They’re both really frustrating here.
I’m a different poster lol
It’s a fact that they have an extremely high false-positive rate. Whether that’s intentional or not doesn’t change the fact that it serves law enforcement’s interests.
They’ll just say they smell fentanyl and then pass out.
Well, it successfully overthrew several governments and collapsed several countries. It accomplished something.
The problem, of course, is that there wasn’t an organized revolutionary movement behind it. Spontaneous uprisings almost never work out for the better, we can’t just overthrow the government and then expect things to naturally work themselves out.
It basically just turns coders into debuggers.
So what? It still creates confusion for no reason, gaslighting should mean something and not be muddied by popculture. That’s always bad every time clinical terms get trashed and used this way.