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Thoughts on bring thankful? Personal experiences? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Not talking about thanking others, but like a way of thinking that I find often especially with religious people, the whole "oh you're sad you can't afford good food? Be thankful you have legs" etc... I don't like it and I don't feel comfortable about it, is there like research to back it up or deny it, do you have any personal experience with it?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

It's ok to be thankful.

To enforce thankfulness and deligitimise somoene else's concerns is a shitty move.

Thankfulness to me implies acknowledging the good parts my own life's situation and fighting for the people that don't have access to the same stuff I am thankful for.

We have some power to reflect, voice concerns, and fight for people that don't have a chance to do the same for themselves, therefore we must!