When a person lives a life so privileged that their bad decisions bear them little negative consequence, they start to believe all their opinions are good ones.

[emily_rugburn@lgbtqia.space]

@alice so....men

[tired_panda@mastodon.social]

@alice vaccinations. Only in a society no longer burdened by the horrors of many diseases due to vaccinations, could a movement start screaming about how vaccines are actually The Devil.

[catriona@tech.lgbt]

@alice And when they face the mildest of mild consequences (such as people suggesting the harm they're causing others is maybe not so great) the only way they know how to respond is to cast themselves as the victim.

[mbridegam@federate.social]

@alice

This is another reason why Larry Summers should not have been in academia after 2005.

[screwturn@mastodon.social]

@alice
That's been my experience.
They also see any move to curb their most costly and harmful privileges as an outrageous attack on their rights

[phosphenes@mastodon.social]

@alice

The opposite of learned helplessness is learned infallibility.

[ck0@tech.lgbt]

@alice The most accurate description of being a white cis-man ...

[w_b@mastodon.world]

@emily_rugburn @alice

Mostly men. Old men. Sprinkle in a few women and younger people.

But still mostly old men.

[jrrickerson@fosstodon.org]

@fruitcakesareyum @alice I think of it a bit like a shopping (or shoplifting maybe) addiction. They don't get a rush or satisfaction from HAVING the stuff, they get the rush from OBTAINING the stuff, and of course they can never be satisfied - they have to keep obtaining more.

[artbrew@mastodon.art]

@alice this is so true.