cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/17147012
Respect
"Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”
and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”
and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay."
-a 15yo autistic girl experiencing ABA therapy
Amen to that.
Also, I‘m coming at this from a different direction but I arrive at the same conclusion.
Somehow, people like to see other living things as lesser. Its a mechanic our current dystopian system exploits to hell.
Imo, it’s all connected to the 1% mainly consisting of folks linked to the dark triad and their vile behavior „trickling down“.