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I think people misunderstand stress and distress, where the latter is personally inflicted on you, like being abused by a family member. In general, I think exp
by nis0s 11mo ago
I think people misunderstand stress and distress, where the latter is personally inflicted on you, like being abused by a family member. In general, I think experiences due to systemic issues are different from experiencing personal issues, i.e., someone targeting you with specific intent and focus to inflict emotional or physical harm on you.
Lived experiences can add to stress, but everyone has a stressful nature to their lived experiences, as this article is saying. Being in distress, where you’re the particular target of a person or a group, is different.
- cindyllm 11mo ago[dead]
- lazide 11mo agoWhat happens when everyone feels they are being targeted (and has some justification, IMO), and so almost everyone is in distress? But not one wants to acknowledge it, because it’s society doing it to itself?
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- nis0s 11mo agoThere’s a difference between feeling targeted, and being targeted in actuality. If you can’t tell the difference, then you’re not being targeted.
- lazide 11mo agoWho do you think isn’t being targeted by large scale manipulation attempts right now in the US? Everyone can definitely tell. Even the cult followers. They just can’t get their heads out of their asses enough to do anything but follow with the manipulation, but it’s a very rare person indeed right now that is going ‘oh yeah, everything is actually fine’.
- nis0s 11mo agoOh okay, that’s what you meant by “target”. I make two distinctions here from my understanding: 1) if group A targets group B, then that’s not a personal attack, but a social or system issue, which I would count as a source of stress, not distress. 2) If group A targets a person, then that is a personal attack, and not a social issue, which is a source of direct conflict, and therefore distress.
- lazide 11mo agoThe beauty of social media is that individuals are being targeted effectively as part of group targeting between groups.
- nis0s 11mo agoThat’s stress, not distress.
- seba_dos1 11mo agoPotato potato.
- nis0s 11mo agoIt’s not the same thing as a different way to say the same thing if the implementation of two sources of conflict is different. One is a societal conflict, and the other is personal conflict.
- DontForgetMe 11mo agoAbsolutely no way are people arguing here that being targeted for one's race, religion, sexuality etc, or being the personal victim of a targeted campaign of harassment and / or violence, is 'just as stressful and distressing' as being targeted by ads. Surely I must be misunderstanding this thread.
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