My situation as an immigrant was different, due to what I symbolize. However, one of most incredible absurdities I’ve run into is also a strong feature of those who interpret identity symbolically. They have weird notions about the distribution of “pity” and about whom it is morally right or wrong to distribute their pity towards.
So, if you confront them with something rather devastating — let us say you announce, “My leg was torn off my a dragon and I’m now bleeding to death!” — they will weigh up whether this is a genuine case demanding a demonstration of their pity or whether it is otherwise.
If it is otherwise, then they will show extreme disdain, insinuating that your fate of having your leg demolished by a dragon was an absolutely necessary state of affairs, given your identity.
All pity for people being eaten by dragons with be withheld. Such pity is to be reserved for people being eaten by pterodactyls only. Also, the people who are getting eaten by pterodactyls have to be well-meaning and emaciated to deserve any kind of respect — otherwise, they too deserve what was coming to them.
This kind of an audience considers it very important that nobody should wring “pity” out of them as an expression of automatic human solidarity. That would make them less important in their own eyes as well as making meaningless their capacity to withhold their pity.
They also mistakenly believe that people being eaten alive by dragons crave their pity more than anything else in this world.
STAY SANE AND SAVAGE Gender activism, intellectual shamanism
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