#yes westerners found it offensive bc it was ethnic/racial/national stereotypes and jokes taken to an extreme (which was the point) | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

magnoliamyrrh · 7 months

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especially bc if theres one thing speaking to ppl on complicated subjects has taught me, and actually getting across to them, is that actually, yea. often times being able to talk and rationalize and keep your cool achieves 3000% more than yelling, screaming, insulting, or anything else does. oh, it sure is harder. oh, its an emotional toll. and you really wanna just call them stupid or tell them to fuck off. but the changes of getting somewhere are much better

there are people which will not change. there are ppl which do not want to hear. there are people which are set to remain in their ways..... but many people are capable of change. maybe people are capable of growth..... and i think... ultimately many ppl wanna be "good," whatever good means in their eyes. and playing off of that to your advantage helps

#ive definetely talked abt this before on here but im forever thinking of the black dude who spend years befriending the head of the kkk #and the dude ended up leaving it. and now this dude has Hundreds of robes of former clan people who have left Because Of Him #.........#....#which tells me in a very very real way. that life is complicated and there is definetely hope and people can definetely change #and that i dont think yelling at a clan member or calling them whatever which is all of our instinct with ppl of those sorts #would have been able to achieve the same result ultimately #....... and if so many fucking kkk members out of all things are able to be moved by rationality #talk. empathy. compassion and reaching across the isle..... fuck man #i think that says a lot about the chances of ppl who are way less worse than kkk members to get better #🤷‍♀️#also something Darly Davis (the dude who started this and got the kkk member to resign) said something which i think is true too #what seems to be (and i think theres anth studies on this too) The Most Effective way to break someones hatred is for them to have a #positive interaction with someone from the group they hate. to actually learn abt them and See them for something to click in their brains #also unironically what balkan reddit showed #yes westerners found it offensive bc it was ethnic/racial/national stereotypes and jokes taken to an extreme (which was the point)#but so many ppl on there said before the reddit they rly were nationalistic and hated other balkan ppl. but bc of it #and bc of the exteme jokes abt stereotypes they saw how stupid it all was #and actually made friends from our different nations and realized that all the hatred is stupid #and suddenly all the endless nationalistic propaganda dug in their heads and the hatred and the ethnic supremacy and everything else ceased

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