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Rights are social agreements. If they can be taken away by the "higher power" at any time, they are not "rights" they are privileges. What constitutes a right changes over time. So, we must fight for and defend the rights of EVERYONE, ALL THE TIME.

THEY ARE ONLY MEANINGFUL BECAUSE WE GIVE THEM MEANING.

1. George Carlin on Human Rights
2. Rights vs. Responsibilities: Indigenous Perspective
3. https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survival-quarterly/indigenous-peoples-are-essential-rights-nature
4. https://www.spectacle.org/0400/natural.html

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How we display our emotions vary based on where we were born. There are consequences to our cultural influences.

1. https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/discoverpsychology2/chapter/culture-and-emotion/
2. https://nobaproject.com/modules/culture-and-emotion
3. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
4. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/this-is-america/202603/how-social-cultural-and-political-structures-influence-our-feelings

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The expression of our emotions, the value we put on them, and how we're affected by them is dependent on how we're socialized. The importance we put on certain emotions varies across cultures.

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/between-cultures/201803/how-culture-shapes-emotions
2. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
3. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/this-is-america/202603/how-social-cultural-and-political-structures-influence-our-feelings

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Emotions feel so internally important, but they are actually impacted by so much more than my personal experience. Our society manipulates our emotions and exploits us through them.

1. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
2. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/this-is-america/202603/how-social-cultural-and-political-structures-influence-our-feelings
3. https://medium.com/@v_bhagya/the-politics-of-feeling-how-emotions-move-shape-and-control-us-51e5627a7e1f
4. https://brianneradke.wordpress.com/2016/10/05/ahmed-sara-the-cultural-politics-of-emotion-introduction-feel-your-way/

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Our emotional states are heavily influenced by the stories we hear, but we tend to forget the narrative and only remember the "feelings". This means we can be influenced by stories that are completely made up. So, we can easily adopt feelings that aren't rooted in reality, but feel so real to us (the feeler), that we start to believe these feelings are facts.

Emotions are movable. They connect us to "this and that". They move us, connect us, attach us, and transform us.

We have the feelings, but erase the history of the feeling so that the feeling feels natural, and the story becomes irrelevant. This is how people can become emotionally attached to their own subordination.

Norms appear through the concealment of repetition.

1. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
2. https://pratiquesdhospitalite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/245435211-sara-ahmed-the-cultural-politics-of-emotion.pdf
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cultural_Politics_of_Emotion

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We should be paying attention to what emotions DO rather than what they ARE.

We assign emotional values to things because of the way we're taught in our culture. Our emotions orient us towards or away from certain bodies. It allows us to justify biases against entire groups of people because it becomes the cultural norm.

Unfortunately, there are very bad people who take advantage of this cultural shaping through emotions. They weaponize hatred by co-opting language and making themselves the victims so that we can't help the TRUE victims.

1. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
2. https://pratiquesdhospitalite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/245435211-sara-ahmed-the-cultural-politics-of-emotion.pdf
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cultural_Politics_of_Emotion

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Emotions circulate and accumulate value across our society through repetition. We must pay attention to what these emotions DO rather than what they ARE.

We assign emotional values to things because of the way we're taught in our culture. Our emotions orient us towards or away from certain bodies. It allows us to justify biases against entire groups of people because it becomes the cultural norm.

Unfortunately, there are very bad people who take advantage of this cultural shaping through emotions. They weaponize hatred by co-opting language and making themselves the victims so that we can't help the TRUE victims.

1. https://www.saranahmed.com/books-1/
2. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/j.ctt1g09x4q
3. https://pratiquesdhospitalite.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/245435211-sara-ahmed-the-cultural-politics-of-emotion.pdf
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cultural_Politics_of_Emotion

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Love should not be harsh or tough. Empathy isn't a sin. It's a crucial aspect to our humanity. If you hear that empathy is a sin, that's a way to avoid the cognitive dissonance necessary to act out of alignment with your morals.

Empathy is a central feature in our humanity. You can become more objective and reasonable about your empathy, without abandoning it completely.

If your conscience is screaming that something isn't right, listen.

Sure, we can be blinded by our subjective relationship to empathy, but we shouldn't be demonizing empathy itself.

Anything that encourages you to ignore human suffering is propaganda.

1. https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/hard-right-influencers/
2. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/09/maga-right-christianity-empathy-toxic/688755/

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We must incorporate moral reasoning, altruism, and compassion into our empathy. Otherwise, we may end up blinded by biases we can't even see.

THE SOURCES:

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Empathy
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compassion

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Too much empathy is not always a good thing. Human empathy is highly selective, which means it's not always "fair" or objective. Fortunately, there are ways to be empathetic, more fairly.

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-problem-with/202605/the-problem-with-empathy
2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Empathy
3. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200930-can-empathy-be-bad-for-you

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