I get the humor of the comic, but I generally think it’s a bad idea to compare two people in order to make a judgement, or even two groups of people. If you actually look at the groups, you’ll almost always find that each community has its strengths and weaknesses. They can actually learn from each other.
I was watching a video of a lady who escaped from North Korea. There was a real food shortage, and people were barely surviving. But she also said that she missed the feeling of community that she felt in her home town. That there was a certain kind of happiness that she felt living in a poor community struggling to get by that she couldn’t replicate.
Same in the former GDR here in Germany. Part of it is sentimentality, but many people also point to specific ways in which life was objectively better for them.
I’ve lived in Africa my entire life, and I’ve yet to meet anybody that suffers from “Spontaneously Disappearing Limb Syndrome.”
Please stop using people on this continent as props.
Don’t you tell me how to virtue signal
what message am i supposed to take away from this?
other than that OP takes an offensively bleak view of what life in africa is like?
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That’s certainly the inspiration, but it’s not particularly good or insightful. It’s really just trying to use a bleak made up stereotype to say something others have said without it. It should add to the conversation, but I don’t think this does that. It doesn’t give me any insight I didn’t already possess, and at best it perpetuates an idea that is wrong, if not outright racist.
Just because you aren’t offended by it and don’t care doesn’t mean critique isn’t valid.
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How childish. I’m a white man in the US. It doesn’t offend me. I can understand how it can be offensive though. My critique isn’t valid because I’m offended or not, it’s because I used reasoning. Reasoning is valid, not your feelings about it.
What do you think it added to the conversation? Do you not think perpetuating negative tropes is something that should be avoided?
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What do you think being offended means, dude? Because this person you’re replying to is not offended. You ignoring the content of the comments and just hammering on really sounds like you’re offended, though. Because that’s what being offended sounds like.
Nah man. You’re reading a lot into this. I was adding to the other comment asking what it adds? Does it add anything? Can you actually construct a reason?
I know it’s easier to insult people and pretend like they’re the ones who are being ridiculous rather than doing the hard work of thinking, but it’s childish.
the irony of it all is that you’re in the joke in the comic and you don’t even realize it.
u/GreenKnight23 , that is the best comment in the entire thread
I think it’s the equivalent of “clean your plate, there are starving children in. -country-”
I.e. you can’t be bothered by bothersome things because other people have it worst.
It’s a bad take
edgy.
This comic should be on a shitpost community instead.
Tf is this shit
Just because the problem is smaller doesn’t mean it isn’t a problem.
The world would be fucked 10 times over if we only cared about the biggest problems.
“Stop saying you have it good. Hundreds of people all over the world go to sleep every night deciding which country they should exploit for billions next, they have it SO MUCH BETTER than you, and to say you’re happy while others have THAT to deal with is just wrong.”
Sounds kinds stupid when you flip it around. Wonder why…
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What a privileged take of an author thinking that’s the base level of suffering of a person they don’t know.
I understand that I’m not the intended audience since I can’t afford to have my broken tooth fixed but than maybe the author should have left this as an audience of just themselves.
What a twat.
Fallacy of relative privation
I’m just gonna say it: boooooo!
Y d rıėluız ðæt kėmpeırıŋ digrız v ſu̇fṙıŋ luık ðiſ z ė meıdjṙ paṙt v ƿėt kıpſ pıpėl frėm fılıŋ ok tȯkıŋ ėbaut Ðıṙ mentėl helþ ſtru̇gėlz ruıt?
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You do realize that comparing degrees of suffering like this is a major part of what keeps people from feeling ok talking about their mental health struggles right?
You do realize that comparing degrees of suffering like this
Having your name spelled wrong on a Starbucks cup IS NOT a degree of suffering. The comic is about petty nonsense. If the comic had a white woman in it complaining about her name being wrong on a cup everyone in the comments section would call her a Karen and the comic would not be so controversial.
And if my Grandma had wheels she’d be a car.
Unfortunately you posted a shitty, arguably racist, excuse for moralistic grandstanding and now we all have to deal with it.
Complaining about people complaining about petty nonsense is, in and of itself, petty fucking nonsense and a waste of time. If you feel strongly enough to imagine it’s in any way useful to try and call out this shit, get off your ass and go volunteer in your community instead.
Æ Y diſmiſıŋ ƿėt f sėm z prȯbėblı ð stcrȯ ðæt breıkſ ð kæmėl’z bæk f ð deı z ƿuı nobėdı kėnfuıdz ðeıṙ prȯblėmz i Y.
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And you dismissing what for some is probably the straw that breaks the camel’s back for the day is why nobody confides their problems in you.
Pıpėl aṙ ėlaud t bı u̇pſet ėbaut cit ƿiðaut bııŋ seıŋktėmonıu̇ſlı lektcṙd ėbaut ſtaṙvıŋ kidz i Æfrikė ðæt Y wṙ’n þıŋkıŋ ėbaut ıðṙ u̇ntil Ðı bikeım ė kėnvınyint ekſkuſ t bitcſpleın ƿuı æſkıŋ f ð tuınıiſt bit v empėþı oṙ kėmizṙeıcėn æktcuėlı meıkſ ðem bæd pıpėl f ekſpektıŋ ė frend t ækt luık ė frend.
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People are aloud to be upset about shit without being sanctimoniously lectured about starving kids in Africa that you weren’t thinking about either until they became a convenient excuse to bitchsplain why asking for the tiniest bit of empathy or commiseration actually makes them bad people for expecting a friend to act like a friend.
İt’s ė fu̇kıŋ ku̇p v kȯfı, n ðem kėmpleınıŋ ėbaut bııŋ u̇nemploıd ƿuıl tṙnıŋ djȯb ȯfṙz daun left æ ruıt f bııŋ “binıþ ðem.” Dju̇ſt ėgrı it’ſ ėnoyıŋ æ muv ȯn insted v tṙnıŋ it intu ė ƿatc ſecėn v ð pȯvṙtı poṙn tcænėl to remuınd ðem Ðı aṙ ė bæd pṙſėn f n tcekıŋ Ðıṙ privlidj bifoṙ ƿantıŋ sėmƿėn t ėgrı it ſu̇kſ Ðıṙ tcaṙdjṙ freıd æ dėz’n ƿṙk enımoṙ.
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It’s a fucking cup of coffee, not them complaining about being unemployed while turning job offers down left and right for being “beneath them.” Just agree it’s annoying and move on instead of turning it into a watch session of the poverty porn channel to remind them they are a bad person for not checking their privilege before wanting someone to agree it sucks their charger frayed and doesn’t work anymore.
you may as well post in a completely foreign language, with no spoiler tags. at least people would be able to read your garbage
What language is that ? Icelandic ? Old english ?
It’s regular English, they’re just swapping in different phonetic characters for some reason
