The Infinitely Curious
I think I've had problems with people like this before... which is why I hate the people supposedly trying to "help" me...
I'm not sure how to get into all the details, but yeah.
"Hell exists not to punish sinners, but to ensure that nobody sins in the first place." - Eikishiki Yamaxanadu (Touhou) Hide / Show Replies
Well, I'm kind of tired from my allergies anyway. :(
"Hell exists not to punish sinners, but to ensure that nobody sins in the first place." - Eikishiki Yamaxanadu (Touhou)
While i'm sorry to hear about the difficulties you've faced because other people were being smug and condescending, this isn't really relevant to the article.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
Eh, they have been banned a while ago.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
Huh. What for, and what were they talking about in the first place? I confess vague curiosity.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. — Mark Twain
Look up Ask The Tropers.
"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman
As a personal opinion: I think perhaps this should be another trope we shouldn't have real life examples of.
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Might be advisable, yeah, given the Flame Bait-y nature of much material her. Anyhow, you may want to propose it here
where more people (and Powers That Be) will see it.
I, for one, vehemently disagree. there is very much cause for keeping real-life examples on the page, especially the ones regarding the nature of ableism.
This is a wiki, not a soapbox for social issues. One of our primary goals is to avoid flaming caused by controversial subjects.
It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.
I feel compelled to say that "critics of Autism Speaks" are not usually touting themselves as charitable organisations that accept donations to research ways of making people autistic. Also, that there are no autistic people among the leadership of Autism Speaks. Those who criticise Autism Speaks think people's minds are extremely diverse; Autism Speaks tells people their children are diseased changelings. Compassion, contempt. Positive, negative.
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Autism Speaks has a track-record of supporting eugenics and have described autism as "a fate worse than death", implying that it would be "merciful" to kill autistic people. Their mission statement is to eliminate autism from the world. They shamelessly call autistic people a "burden".
Let me just point out one thing: While it is true that pity/compassion and contempt/loathing are not that far from each other, they still are NOT the same. In both cases the person expressing pity/contempt perceives the other person as somehow disadvantaged, but in the first case the second person is seen in a positive way, and in a negative one in the second. That difference is what matters.
Again: Contempt. Use this word.
Fuhrmann, es kostet dir noch dein Leben
- YKTTW
- TRS that renamed Pitying Perversion to Condescending Compassion.
So... is there a trope page for being compassionate when it's not actually a way to put the person down? You know, like, actually caring about someone and wanting to help them? Or is that something the wiki has decided is just a myth?
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