i think the joke here is that a lot of people who come across this do live in America and it implies we all pity them
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kibiz0r@midwest.social 7 months ago
I’ve never understood the argument that you shouldn’t complain about the environment you interact with because other people interact with worse environments.
Like, okay, that’s good to keep in mind with respect to privilege and assumptions and such, but like…
I can’t deliver a first-hand account of someone else’s life, and I can’t identify the possible solutions to their problems as well as I can for my own — let alone access their world as well as my own, to try to fix some of the problems.
I think on some level the people who say “focus on those other people’s problems” know that those other problems are less accessible.
It’s not that they want you to do better activism. It’s that they want you to do none.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The argument that we shouldn’t worry about things because there are worse circumstances out there essentially implies a race to the bottom.
It implies we can’t fix anything about anything except the worst thing, so everything else will naturally degrade and decline.
We won’t fix the worst thing either because it’s too remote.
camelbeard@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s basically whataboutism
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