Here’s something I don’t understand. I am almost fifty. In fifty years on this planet, there have been many instances where someone has either implied (or straight out told me!) that I should hate some whole other group of people. Maybe it was gay people. Black people. A different religion. I always understood that anyone who asks you to hate a faceless mass of people is an asshole.
There’s no way all jews can be evil. It’s absurd to think that all republicans are pedofiles. Of course all democrats don’t want to rewrite the constitution, and they aren’t all hippies. Just the idea is absurd! It would be like saying that all blind people are assholes. Are some of them assholes? Sure, probably, but not all. Absolutes are bullshit. These paper cutouts we’re told to hate just don’t exist. I’ve met tons of awesome blind people.
It’s boring, and it’s getting tiring. Are you so intellectually feeble that you need someone to tell you what’s good and bad? What matters and what doesn’t? Who you should trust? What rings true and what sounds preposterous? What your opinion should be?!?!
I’m kind of into this critical thinking thing, myself. And I’m not a paper doll. Like you, I am a complex human that doesn’t fit into boxes neatly. If you need the Cliffs Notes to life, that’s fine, but not everyone does.
The rest of us will be over here thinking.
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