[ SECRET POST #6297 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6297 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"Maybe you feel this way because people have hurt you, I hope they have not"

Any particular reason you decided to trot out the "hurt people hurt people" trope?

[(Anonymous)]

I didn't trot out a trope, I acknowledged that an actual real life person might have been hurt in the past? Most of us have been to some degree or another??

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AYRT

I'm seeing the line in an increasing number of video essays (a trend I first observed in 2022). This bothers me because there isn't a clear (proportional) degree of hurt that would be inflicted in order for someone to feel like hurting others is justified. It's also a way to muddy the waters a bit, as the "hurt" is never clarified to be something like invalidation (which has a better chance of successful healing compared to more prolonged trauma/abuse).

[(Anonymous)]

It's not a trope, it's the truth. I know y'all don't like it because you think it's victim blaming to point out that abuse victims are likely to go on to become abusers themselves, but studies show that it's a real pattern.

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AYRT

Even if abused people go on to abuse others, a phrase like "hurt people hurt people" minimizes their actions. Even my counselor is sick of the phrase because it's being using in more and more blase ways.