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@sim @_p @realcaseyrollins That's the crap part about the mind. It's easy to pick things up and never remember the context around why it's a good or bad thing to have.

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Whoa, that deep.

Reminds me of a question I meant to post last week but forgot; I wonder how many forms of mental illness aren't necessarily mental illnesses but more like mental injuries caused by constant trauma
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@milo @_p @realcaseyrollins Yeah. Honestly, I feel like this was drilled into me but it's been hard to pinpoint where I picked it up. Also, who would gain from me hating myself? Deep question time...

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This is true. But teaching one bad morals and life lessons is damaging in the long run and causes more hurt and trauma later in life
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@realcaseyrollins @_p @sim i mean if you think about it, teaching good morals is sometimes traumatic, because it's usually in response to doing the wrong thing.
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It's more a malicious discipline that hijacks the same methods of teaching good morals.

> Kids are like little sponges, absorbing all the information around them and trying to make sense of it.
@realcaseyrollins @crunklord420 @comicbot It's a depiction of what happens when you play Team Fortress 2. If it isn't funny to you, it's because it isn't funny.

@sim @Lainyboy@neckbeard.xyz @_p@shitposter.club Yep. IDK how long it would take but I think it'd be best to try that in how one raised their own families.

This was my motivation behind this toot from yesterday: gameliberty.club/@realcaseyrol

@realcaseyrollins @_p @Lainyboy You know, I did wonder what was happening there. But like you say, I can see that if you have that message drilled into you then it would be very limiting. I do hope that things change for future generations. There must be a way to have a generation of healthy people who have healthy relationships with others around them.

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> drilling that guilt or hatred into them

This is actually still trauma, but a more social trauma.

@sim @_p @realcaseyrollins internalization of guilt, or even hatred has to either breed from trauma, and/or brainwashing by drilling that guilt or hatred into them

@sim @Lainyboy@neckbeard.xyz @_p@shitposter.club Absolutely, it just does not apply to everyone.

@milo @_p @realcaseyrollins Yeah. Also, if white people didn't internalise then I don't think white guilt would hold so much sway in the public opinion. Internalising is one tactic that humans have to help them survive situations they are in, especially when they don't have control over what is happening to them. It is worse for little children who hold even less control compared to the adults around them.

@sim @Lainyboy@neckbeard.xyz @_p@shitposter.club No but that memory is passed down because their parents couldn't or their grandparents couldn't, so they told their children that they couldn't either.

@_p @Lainyboy @realcaseyrollins To be honest, I don't envy the position of being police. It must be a very stressful job. It would also attract some of the worst people out there, who look to abuse others or have power over them.
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Oh one other thing i hear get thrown a lot is as such. Think this one was from a [[white]] journo:

"White people containerize, Black people Internalize"

That line always came off as BS to me, since control of emotion is dictated by discipline and conscious control.

Mainly think that because I remember a time as a kid where strong emotion could just let loose, as I simply had no comprehension on how to temper them.

As for traumatic events though, all people internalize. It just seems to be a matter of what kind of event.

@_p@shitposter.club @Lainyboy@neckbeard.xyz @sim Yeah and then you have generational messaging that "the only way you can get rich is to do crime" and even when racial barriers are lifted, few people will even believe they can succeed. So they won't try. 75% of doing something is believing you can.

Like, dogs trained to stay in the yard via an invisible electric fence won't be able to tell when the fence has been deactivated, and will never leave. You know what I mean?

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