Everybody deserves
Again with the childish bee whoo yoo ahhh.
In what sense does everybody “deserves to feel safe to be themselves”?
Does Andrew Tate deserve to feel safe to be himself, including threatening and assaulting women?
Does Wayne Couzens deserve to feel safe to be himself, including falsely arresting a woman, raping her, and murdering her?
Does Donald Trump deserve to feel safe (including from arrest, trial, sentencing) to be himself, including sedition, treason, corruption, sadism, fraud, lies, bullying, theft, revenge, xenophobia, incompetence, dereliction of duty?
The slogan sounds nice, but then if you think about it for even a second it becomes apparent how stupid it is.
This is the Big Lie at the very heart of the cult, because everybody is constrained by custom, society, laws, and reality itself. No-one at all is ‘free’ to be whatever they want to be; but narcissists have never been happy with boundaries, and if they aren’t comparing themselves favourably to others they don’t know who they are.
It extends beyond the cult, sadly. I think this is part of the Culture of Therapy and the whole “Participation Prizes” meme. Everyone is SPECIAL. A local coffee bar I patronize promulgates a version of this “You Matter”. No….In the grand scheme of things I really don’t. And most people don’t. I just find this kind of stuff…smarmy. George Carlin riffed on this a lot.