> emotional hysteria
Sensitive people like you make me sad. [from your own bio]
To me labelling people who collectively rise up against systemic domination as 'emotional hysteria' is just the epitome of cruelty.
#blacklivesmatter
Sensitive people like you make me sad. [from your own bio]
To me labelling people who collectively rise up against systemic domination as 'emotional hysteria' is just the epitome of cruelty.
#blacklivesmatter
[EDIT] to put it another way, there's a cost to political action. That a lot of people might see that cost WRT anti-police-brutality protests as lower, and the benefit it yields higher, this week than they did two weeks ago, and so be willing to participate, is not "emotional hysteria". Not that nothing that could be described as that has been involved at any point in the process, but that seems reductionist to the point of being very wrong as a characterization for the overall movement.
Of course, if you're saying society at large is irrational I pretty much agree... but within the context of social expectation, I'd say it's pretty rational to compute that your contribution is more likely to land once a movement has already started. If anything, those who first begin the movement are the most irrational (since the likelihood of success is much lower compared to the personal cost to the individual).
In other words: if you live in an irrational system, the only way to be rational is to behave irrationally.
EDIT: Italicizing.
Same with calling protestors "irrational" -- maybe to your point of view, they are but this is not an objective statement by any definition of the word.
Sure, but that's not what I described.
I am not sure why that word comes across as offensive given that people were rioting. I can’t think of any better example of a sudden burst of excess emotion.