I read you. You point is very well taken on the unique causation of snowflakes, and in the cases of serious cause I, too, am most sympathetic to that reality, as well. I can’t even follow the NIXIIVM story but for headlines, so I am not removed from being snowflaky, myself.
I just don’t pound the table because others can, or demand it go away because it’s posted every single day. I respect their interest and it is Not gratuitous or exploitative of the subject, any more than the single photo of saintly mercy depicted to the most innocent.
Poor RB posted one picture, one time, and the berating was a bit much. I was sorry for him. The last concern I would have had is how his abortion photo post would go over with my abortion supporting Leftist acquaintances! Do they not need to own up to their deeds? God forbid. Who cares for their “feelings “?
The phenomenal mercy shown was a lesson for the Christian soul. I was thankful for the privilege of seeing it. Striking was the strictly minority babies was the important Secondary message.
Thank you for reminding me that some snowflakes have Real reasons for gating themselves off. PTSD, tragedy, etc. For that kind of reason I do regard very much.
ThankQ for your thoughtful post.
FWIW, I think the reaction, or at least some of it, on the thread against seeing the pic was, first that numerous dead babies were shown (!!!), and secondarily, the initial assumed context that it was DS harvesting babies (!!).
Initially, I didn’t realize the photo depicted reverence for the dead - I thought I saw dead babies being harvested for sale by a monster. Because it was a Q drop about the cabal’s evil, I assumed the context was evil. I now wonder if the “mercy” context is part of why Q might have chosen that particular picture - it helps a little to think of the good and merciful in the midst of all the evil.
I don’t think people who post that kind of image deserve to be berated. On our thread, it was a first and we had a learning experience as a result.
I believe there are differences in temperament and life’s circumstances that make us different in our reaction to such pictures and we inherently “see” and respond to this issue from opposite ends with significant force; the “answer” seems obvious and the failure of the other side to see it can sometimes be interpreted negatively, because the victims in the middle of this nightmare are so important to us all => innocent little babies.
I’ve been away from the thread and yours is the first post I’ve seen that mentions the babies were all minorities. It is yet another blow, but I suppose it could have been expected because the way these monsters treat Haiti, South America, and countries where the Deep State pretends to put charities in order to harvest the children.
They reach for the defenseless first (with low resources to investigate/litigate), but I think they view all children outside their filthy “elite” circle as equally worthless. Actually I’ve read content that some sacrifice their OWN children. Their lack of humanity makes this content harder to accept. I believe they target children first because they want to do whatever would offend God the most. There is PAIN in their future.
ThankQ for the insights, Rita.
On a recent trip from Tucson to Phoenix, I caught a remarkable CBC Radio/SiriusXM show about NXIVM, from the point of view of a Canadian woman, Sarah Edmondson, caught up in NXIVM at the highest levels, including eventually being a slave to Lauren Salzman.
I found it fascinating how NXIVM entrapped women. NXIVM was fundamentally a women's self-improvement organization, attracting women who wanted to better themselves and become highly successful. Once women were within the organization, however, NXIVM did everything they could to convince them that they were fatally flawed, because they were women.
An interesting technique was the "NXIVM Flip". If a NXIVM member ever complained or expressed discomfort about what was going on in NXIVM, a mentor would strongly assert that the supposed problem was really a weakness in the complainer, which the complainer would have to work harder to overcome.
Another technique was the use of "collateral". In order to proceed to the highest levels of NXIVM, a convert would need to provide "collateral" in the form of pornographic photographs or incriminating secrets/stories about the convert and\/or members of their family. Edmondson says that her secrets weren't bad enough to serve as collateral, so she actually made up stories about herself and her parents to be allowed to become a slave to Salzman, which also required her to receive the NXIVM pubic brand (inflicted with a cauterization instrument).
Edmondson was finally convinced to break with NXIVM when her boyfriend noticed that the brand -- supposedly a symbol of commitment to self-improvement-- was actually just a combination of the initials of Keith Raniere and Allison Mack.
Women were seduced into NXIVM by their own noble goals of self-improvement, combined with the instilled belief that Raniere -- the enabler for their improvement -- was approximately the Second Coming,.