hemiarch
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- First Name
- Ace
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- Jan 22, 2025
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- Location
- Arizona
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- 2024 foundation AWD, 2024 model x
- Occupation
- Trauma Surgeon
They aren’t valid for me. They are everyone’s instinct including mine but ultimately they are prejudice and not ok. It actually takes active effort to avoid them.I ran a Subaru dealership for 17 years. I’ve owned several. Stereotypes are a valid first order approximation…
I frequently treat people who look like bad guys and bad guys who look like good guys in my line of work and providing them the same consistent high quality care is what’s expected of me.
My first night at the county hospital I currently work at, I had a horrible situation that required help from the medical ICU doctor to intubate a patient while I was trying to deal with life threatening bleeding on a regular non-icu floor. Which is actually really hard. Basically, I had my hands too full to do it all. The guy who showed up to respond to my page must have had a dozen or more piercings and tattoos on his face.
You think my first reaction wasn’t, “what the fuck is this?”, of course it was. It was dead wrong though. He was incredibly helpful and cool as cucumber and we were able to save a life together because of it.
What I’m trying to say is that we all have these moments of weakness. It’s completely normal but if we’re able to get over that instinctive hump just like we get over other innate desires we don’t act on, it’s an accomplishment worth achieving.
Hate takes no energy. It sucks energy from everything and everyone in the room except you. Love or even just acceptance is actually really hard. It takes work.
My entirely apolitical point and you can choose to believe that or call what I’m saying bullshit because you want to disagree with me and think you know without knowing me what my posts say about my politics, is that this country cannot and will not get better without EVERYONE actually putting in the work to make it better. That includes me, it includes the Subaru driving blue hair wearing kid down the street and it also includes you.
You guys can take your first order approximations about Subaru drivers, women, people of color, immigrants, newscasters/reporters that don’t suit you, old people, young people, unhoused people, people who voted differently than you or whoever else and gradually further alienate yourselves from your communities with them, but it only serves to increase the prejudice experience of driving a Cybertruck. It makes things worse, not better.
Thanks for helping make it so my children have been flipped off in a Bluey themed Cybertruck with three car seats in the back.
Don’t want to be stereotyped, quit stereotyping. The world is what you make of it.
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