Okay, gotta explain empathy I guess. Has any kind of descriptor ever been used to hurt your feelings? A slur, name calling, or even an unflattering description of your looks or personality?
Well when a nonbinary person is misgendered they feel bad. What you are telling people to do is just accept that they will feel bad when being discussed in their workplace.
It’s not about how the person presents themselves, it’s about how they prefer to be recognized.
As someone who was recently diagnosed as an individual with a touch of the ism… I think it’s just an all around gross misunderstanding of the disease.
A simple rule like don’t do a Nazi salute because it means you’re a Nazi is incredibly easy to understand. Not doing a thing that specifically outs you as different is like a large part of being high functioning.
Understanding why any modern person would want to do a Nazi salute is much more complicated, as the belief system is built upon a very skewed interpretation of reality and social mores.
Same to you!
what do you suppose the Taliban would have done to those same people and more if the US had not pulled out when Trump told them we would?
I don’t really think slowing down a pull out a few weeks or even months would really upset the Taliban anymore than what we had already done, I mean we’ve been there for more than a decade.
The point would be that it would have given more time for people to make their way to the airbase, and for more than just a couple airplanes full of people evacuate.
The only reason the Taliban was able to capture Kabul so quickly is because they and the security forces knew that the US wasn’t providing any air cover.
Eh, I guess it’s a matter of opinion. To me knowingly finishing your opponents mistake is worse than making an honest one yourself.
I may be a little biased though, as I have had the opportunity to provide healthcare to a few of the Afghan interpreters that were lucky enough to evacuate and make it state side.
I work in orthopedics and rehabilitation, so they had all been pretty banged up, missing limbs, or had lower limbs injuries that affected their mobility. But their personal injuries were nothing compared to how much uncertainty they faced about not knowing about the well being of extended family and friends still in Afghanistan, a home they will likely never have the chance to ever visit again.
don’t see how this is laid on Biden since Trump agreed to the withdrawal and timeline
Trump made the original withdrawal date and Biden arbitrarily stuck to it when he came into office.
He was under no real obligation to stick to the timeline and it was a betrayal to every Afghan citizen that worked with us. I don’t really care what Republicans bitch and moan about.
Feel like that speech would have meant more when he still had the power to do anything about it. Instead of going to war against this oligarchy he chose to cash his political capital on a rushed pull out of Afghanistan, and to kill a bunch of Palestinians.
Yeah, also… Relying on social media of any type to get a realistic depiction of an entire country is really really dumb.
Imagine if you moved to America because of Instagram, thinking everyone here did nothing but travel and thirst post.
Social media app users are primarily middle/upper class millennials and younger. You know the people most isolated from the general public and not in charge of anything.