Posts by Sacha
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Russell Brown,
That people may respond differently because their actual experience of the world is different.
Learning that academically helped me understand myself. Many worlds.
I actually regard that insight as a significant professional benefit in my line of work.
Same. Doesn't mean I listen as well as I could. #notajourno
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to BenWilson,
The same goes for everyone else too, but in a much tighter range.
I reckon people are both more different and more similar than we think.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Danielle,
Ta. That's the one I was remembering.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Society tells young white (cisgendered, heterosexual) men, still, that their viewpoints and desires and beings are privileged over everyone else's. They are the baseline, the Normal. But that doesn't make all of them powerful. And the question arises - if success is epitomised and embodied by People Like Me, why I am I, personally, not sharing in that success?
Same thing drives anti-immigrant sentiment in non-rich white young men (who vastly outnumber the wealthy and influential ones). Being part of a non-marked social group has its disadvanatages as well as its privileges.
How we each deal with realising our own power and lack of it in the world is encultured and part of our upbringing. Most people get through somehow, though not always without hurting others. Adding permissively-regulated assault weapons to the mix sure raises the stakes.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Bart Janssen,
It's almost as if there were a group of people trying to distract the discussion away from the issue of gun control.
oh look, here's James
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to George Darroch,
spoon
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Autism doesn't explain this violent spree. Article includes this insight:
Empathic ability comes in two forms. One is the social ability to recognize the emotion someone is feeling by following social cues, subtle vocal fluctuations, and other nonverbal communications.
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Autism does not, however, preclude a person from understanding a clear communication about emotion.
The other form of empathy follows on the recognition of the emotion, whether the message comes through verbally or nonverbally, intuitively or not. That's the form in which you not only can intellectualize the person's emotion but also can internalize and feel what they are feeling, known as emotional empathy. The gap for psychopaths comes in here: They seem to lack this emotional empathy.
But whatever deficits autism might carry in terms of recognition, it makes up for in terms of the shared feeling. My experience has been that once an autistic becomes aware of the other person's emotion, the feeling comes without a social construct, naked and in full, unmodulated. Certainly, the expression of their feeling can be more intense.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Angus Robertson,
The relevence of gender to gun violence seems statistically very poor.
doesn't deserve a response
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
Think of how upset people get when they can't gender someone or misgender someone.
I remember sitting behind a 3-year old and parents at an outdoor performance of Douglas Wright's 'Hey Paris' and the utter confusion and delight for the youngster as the dancers changed gender throughout.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Paul Williams,
respectful
yes