They edited it, this is the original post: Throwback to when I took acid for the first time in 2013 and predicted the events of 2020 like the fucking oracle of Delphi God can you imagine if Donald Trump became president? There’d be like a new bubonic plague and he’d be like “idk drink bleach about it” Maybe since this is consensus based, peer reviewed, and not solely made by doctors (but also researchers who may or may not have an MD, may include chemical engineers etc), you can see how it’s different than the dickbag doctor you had that one time.” IF the response is “Doctors are saints, they work so hard, they have to be smart to get into med school!” Then that person is being reactionary and invalidating, and utterly unhelpful. So yeah, if we say “I don’t trust doctors due to x, y, z experience, so now I don’t want to get the vaccine,” then we would ideally respond with, “Okay, that’s valid, and that was an individual doctor.
#ATWAR MANSON ETSY FULL#
Value statements are a REALLY CONSISTENT indicator that someone is full of bullshit and is trying to manipulate the other person (or be dismissive).
It’s because one person is talking about ideas like facts, feelings, and experiences (which is descriptive)… and the other person is making value statements (which are non-descriptive). It’s like how I’m unable to talk about how traumatic and horrifying the US public school system is without some mook feeling the need to remind me that teachers work very hard. I’m not being particularly articulate b/c my brain isn’t being very cooperative at the moment (funny, that) but I feel like in general we hold a lot of well-earned and completely valid antipathy towards professions that most ppl consider to be implicitly above reproach.
Hell, I’d imagine basically everyone that’s not an abled cis white man has had experiences with asshole doctors that are maliciously wrong about their health. Also extremely important for people with uteruses! And trans people generally! This is especially important for disabled people, very especially important for invisible disabilities like myalgic encephalomyelitis. As a disabled, I really don’t like how much the reaction against idiots eating horse paste and drinking bleach has taken the form of “The medical-industrial complex is always trustworthy and should never be questioned” Like, medical & scientific consensus is a big deal, knowing which sources of information are trustworthy and which ones are bunk is a vital skill, but also doctors are often malicious and often wrong. There’s gotta be a better way to dunk on antivaxxers and argue against quack medicine than acting like all doctors are infallible sages who can’t be questioned.
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