"Say your name is Joe but I insist your name is Jean."

[Nevilledog]

https://www.getrevue.co/profile/juliusgoat/issues/sabotage-part-10-the-supreme-problem-1420742


Say your name is Joe but I insist your name is Jean.

Let’s say you believe your name is Joe because that’s your name.

Let’s say I insist your name is Jean because I believe I have the right to name you because of who I understand myself to be, and you do not have the right to name yourself because of who I understand you to be.

Let’s say this plays out in a number of other beliefs I have about your identity, and the way you choose to live. Again and again, you establish yourself on your own terms, and again and again I refuse your self, in a way that makes it clear that my ability to accept or refuse you is a core part of how I see myself.

Perhaps you’ve seen this scenario play out in thousands of different ways, and wondered:
What is that?

I’ll tell you what it is.

It’s supremacy.

It’s a belief that I am supreme.

I am demonstrating a popular core belief that there are people who matter, and I am one of those, and there are people who do not matter, and that you are one of those. I am attempting to impose a reality founded on that belief, under which I am the one who gets to define you, and your right to exist is not a foregone conclusion but something that will be established and mediated by what I and other people who matter are comfortable allowing. I’m establishing that my understanding of who you are is more important than your understanding of who you are. I’m establishing my license to permit you to exist.

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[SheltieLover]

1. Absolutely!

[SoCalDavidS]

2. We Should Call In Experts To Debate What Your Name Is

Fair & Balanced.

[Gaugamela]

3. It's also called gaslighting. Fundamentally, gaslighting is the refusal to acknowledge

the other as a person with the same consciousness, needs, and agency as yourself. It erases another’s existence. Gaslighting is the foremost sign of a narcissist, and a narcissist isn’t worth a second thought.

[unblock]

4. Also known as elitism. Funny how "elitism" is only used to insult the left.

Yeah right, we on the left who believe everyone is equal are the elitists? Uhh....

Sorry, nothing is more elitist than constantly finding minority groups to kick around, insult, belittle, and insist you're somehow better than.

The right calls themselves the real America. How elitist is that?

They insist that their specific religious views overrule the laws or constitution of our country. Elitist much?

They are the ultimate elitists.

[Nevilledog]

5. Agreed