•  Grail   ( @Grail@aussie.zone ) 
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    325 days ago

    If discussion of politics is not to your liking

    Actually, I am Extremely Political. Here are My blog posts on the subject of the subject of politics. One admittedly quite aggressive on the subject:
    https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/there-is-no-such-thing-as-apolitical-and-claiming-otherwise-is-dangerous-72180711a310
    https://medium.com/@viridiangrail/apolitical-queers-dont-deserve-to-opt-out-of-discourse-25bf467f9cc2

    Also, I admit that I am constructing a very emotional narrative in the blog post, which is a transparent attempt at emotionally manipulating people into feeling empathy and patience for the big scary person living with NPD. I find that when I use language that permits people to think of these issues as a matter of cold, hard, factual accuracy, their ability to empathise with oppressed peoples who they’ve been told to hate is deeply impaired. Stories are the language of human memory. They’re easy to listen to, easy to remember, easy to think about, and easy to feel about. The human mind is optimised for processing stories more readily than facts. So I often try to present facts as stories.

    In any case, thank you for the idea to ask Ian directly. I just did so, and I plan to heavily rethink My post if he agrees.

    • That is so awesome. Yeah I admit I got emotional myself when you seemed to come out swinging in an adversarial stance against my favorite YouTuber. You are learning how you want to structure your journey and receptive to feedback so you will go far I believe, and I hope you remember that he is like that too so you should share that in common:-). A lot of people would be allies who, perhaps bc of their disorders and/or how raised by their parents, struggle with articulating their points in a manner that others can readily accept. Maybe he does sometimes. Maybe you do too. Definitely I do. It’s maybe important to not alienate them and rather reach out to share and even celebrate our common ground!?:-) 🥳 I hope he does that for you. But either way, stay strong my human.

        • Omg that is an amazing, heart-warming story, thanks so much for the update on it. I suspected he would - he seems like he genuinely cares, rather than e.g. being out to merely make money or get fame or “power” or some such by having his channel (Innuendo Studios).

          Nobody can be correct 100% of the time, at least on the first pass, but if we are amenable to correction when appropriate, then how could we not end up being correct, eventually!? :-D

          It’s so great also that he’s an ally for neurodivergence too, as well as being committed to Truth in general.:-)