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One might hypothesize that the most active users of Twitter might not be the most representative of the greater population, even... However, any idea along the
by majormajor 4y ago
One might hypothesize that the most active users of Twitter might not be the most representative of the greater population, even...
However, any idea along the lines of "people need help, not acceptance" needs to be very carefully discussed, because in the world I grew up in, you didn't get help or acceptance: you got punishment, you got shame, you even sometimes got violence as "treatment."
A lot of people out there who will latch onto anything telling them they don't need to be accepting of difference.
- pawsforthought 4y ago> you even sometimes got violence as "treatment." For example, electroconvulsive therapy in its early days. To quote the Mayo Clinic [1]: > Much of the stigma attached to ECT is based on early treatments in which high doses of electricity were administered without anesthesia, leading to memory loss, fractured bones and other serious side effects. [1]: https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsive-therapy/about/pac-20393894 https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/electroconvulsiv...
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- XorNot 4y agoI very much agree: my point was that the people who push ideas like this do so by misrepresenting occurrence rates and motivations (social media isn't an insight into people's lives at scale, it's as real as "reality" TV). Ultimately it's yet another "think of the children!" variant.
- antifa 4y ago> because in the world I grew up in, you didn't get help or acceptance: you got punishment, you got shame, you even sometimes got violence as "treatment." That's mostly still the world we live in, the main difference is that you can login to tumblr and find out you're not alone.