The more I watch people talk about disasters, the more I think a lot of people mentally divide the world into Disaster Places and Normal Places and believe that they (wise, pragmatic, likable) have chosen to live in a Normal Place. This means that disasters that happen to them are bizarre and unfair exceptions, while disasters that happen to others are unfortunately what they get for their careless choices. This is a bad mindset. mstdn.social/@kissane/11050428

@vruba Yesterday I read a long thread about "livers" and "diers" in the context of COVID and a statement Trump made. It's the supremacist mindset, yeah?

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@sgillies Really feels like it. “You deserve bad things but I don’t” with more steps.

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