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Things that probably express similar sentiment, but with different language: * "Not my circus, not my monkeys." * "How do things in those other places conc
by tbrownaw 9y ago
Things that probably express similar sentiment, but with different language:
* "Not my circus, not my monkeys."
* "How do things in those other places concern *us*?"
* "People suck, news at 11."
* "You think we haven't been hearing this every day already?"
* "Thanks, but we already have more than enough things to be outraged about."
* "That doesn't look actionable."
* "We're here to do work, not to agitate for social change."
Does phrasing it in any of those ways still look "sexist by any possible interpretation I can think of"?
- sokoloff 9y agoNo. Some of those are borderline supportive (#3, #4). The others are at least slanted towards "[maybe] it's a problem, but not one that we're going to fix". They all convey much more "we heard what you said" than "We don't give a fuck" does. Just MHO.
- calibration263 9y agoA lot of these I don't think are different phrasings, they're different in meaning as well. A closer rephrasing with similar sentiment is: "No one cares" All the phrasing you provided are combinations of: 1) not applicable to me/us 2) we can't do anything about it For anyone struggling with empathy, imagine you're feeling frustrated with something, you share with your coworkers, one replies publicly "no one cares" and everyone else laughs. Then the next day the thing that was frustrating you happens a number of times and you can't say anything because it's clear that everyone doesn't care.