It's mind boggling how many people are illiterate
Apr 13, 2024 20:25:49 GMT
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Post by drystyx on Apr 13, 2024 20:25:49 GMT
Far Side #1384 in case it doesn't copy here, as sometimes it doesn't
www.facebook.com/search/top?q=%23farside%20%231384
It's a pretty self explanatory cartoon. A man carrying a stick with a bag on the end, looks to be going into somewhere, but there's a sign that says:
Amazing that almost half of the people responding to the cartoon claim that the sign is against intolerance. If that's not poor enough reading and comprehension, those people will insist that the guy arriving at the sign is an evil and intolerant guy, even when people point out that the sign means that the people who posted the sign don't rely on any reality, but just make up what someone else thinks, and makes up what their behavior means, and obviously makes up what other people say (in the real world), and "feels" like excluding whatever person they decide to exclude.
Incredibly, nearly half of the people who respond to that cartoon are ignorant red necks, maybe on the right, maybe on the left, but either way they are ignorant in defense of bigotry and prejudice when they claim that the person who made the sign is actually "inclusive".
This is my theory, but I am sure it is correct. I believe an equal number of far right and far left people agree with the sign, because extremists figure to be self righteous in defending their status quo, whichever their status quo is. The extremists I know in real life are people who were privileged enough to be born into a "mob family", which may just be a local mob family, but still a family with comfortable roots. You can identify these people by asking them if they live in a town or a city. These are people who claim that they live in a "small town where everybody knows everyone else.
Now, even in a small town, nobody knows everyone else. What this means is that only "people who matter" count. The "local mob family". Even large cities have residents who claim that they live in a small town.
This comfortable, spoiled privileged life makes it easy to believe that they are inclusive when they are not inclusive.
The sign in that cartoon hits them below the belt, and they can't take it, be they far right or far left.
www.facebook.com/search/top?q=%23farside%20%231384
It's a pretty self explanatory cartoon. A man carrying a stick with a bag on the end, looks to be going into somewhere, but there's a sign that says:
WARNING: This is an inclusive society and if we feel you are talking, thinking, or behaving in a non-inclusive way, you will be excluded.
Amazing that almost half of the people responding to the cartoon claim that the sign is against intolerance. If that's not poor enough reading and comprehension, those people will insist that the guy arriving at the sign is an evil and intolerant guy, even when people point out that the sign means that the people who posted the sign don't rely on any reality, but just make up what someone else thinks, and makes up what their behavior means, and obviously makes up what other people say (in the real world), and "feels" like excluding whatever person they decide to exclude.
Incredibly, nearly half of the people who respond to that cartoon are ignorant red necks, maybe on the right, maybe on the left, but either way they are ignorant in defense of bigotry and prejudice when they claim that the person who made the sign is actually "inclusive".
This is my theory, but I am sure it is correct. I believe an equal number of far right and far left people agree with the sign, because extremists figure to be self righteous in defending their status quo, whichever their status quo is. The extremists I know in real life are people who were privileged enough to be born into a "mob family", which may just be a local mob family, but still a family with comfortable roots. You can identify these people by asking them if they live in a town or a city. These are people who claim that they live in a "small town where everybody knows everyone else.
Now, even in a small town, nobody knows everyone else. What this means is that only "people who matter" count. The "local mob family". Even large cities have residents who claim that they live in a small town.
This comfortable, spoiled privileged life makes it easy to believe that they are inclusive when they are not inclusive.
The sign in that cartoon hits them below the belt, and they can't take it, be they far right or far left.
