Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 29/07/2025We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day. 74132354428
Peter Gibbons @sanders-2016.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Thanks for saying this. Crime is down, over the last 30 years. Whites in American defacto segregated towns are the safest people in human history, but they are arming and policing against honest, decent people. 0391
Azi Raphael @moonglaive90.bsky.social · 30/07/2025They absolutely conflate the two because safe people don't want to feel uncomfortable about their safety, which is kind of 😒 000
Craig @thelordgod.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Good point. When a provincial rube such as Charlie Kirk (and I say that tongue in cheek because I've no doubt Charlie was never once even mildly concerned about walking in New York) claims he's "unsafe" he's really just saying, "I feel nervous around diversity that doesn't all focus on me." 020
Indynet @indy-net.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Absolutely correct. Here is how they behave: I was ready to buy 1 item at a Dollar Tree, when 3 obviously rich Nazis pushed their FULL cart ahead of me, all I could say was "I guess it's too late" when the cashier rang up their first item. The three of them smiled. Typical retards that own us today. 000
Adam Rotmil @adamrotmil.bsky.social · 29/07/2025For years people said they felt unsafe, but might have just been uncomfortable. (Leading to today’s politics.) Important difference 0120
Oliver Barratt @ordgar.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Regressive politics is basically an alliance between the privileged resenting their "inferiors" talking back to them, and repressed normies being paranoid about/disgusted by anyone more interesting than them. And as a privileged repressed normie myself, I've seen their bullshit first hand. 0172
polocatfan @polocatfan.bsky.social · 30/07/2025This is probably not your intention, but this comes off as massively ableist. You might wanna reword this. 210
Phoenix Russell @phoenixrussell.bsky.social · 29/07/2025People who think faster is always better stress me out. Give me more and better at whatever speed that works. 020
Marty McKowen 🇦🇺🏴🇮🇪☸️ @bodhi375.bsky.social · 29/07/2025This seems to be the malaise of the current era where being uncomfortable (including being bored or under stimulated) is perceived as a threat to life limb and the universe. 21443
Ben Klaus @looserooster.bsky.social · 29/07/2025And I have to think a lot of New Yorkers recognized him and happily made him feel uncomfortable… 060
Crimson Oracle 🏳️⚧️ @crimsonoracle.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Not only that, discomfort is literally required for growth 0281
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KarenB4Good @karenb4good.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Nailed it. This is a parallel to the “you’re not being civil“. The privileged expect to live in pristine insulation. 1311
Francis @datafran.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Discomfort, depending on the circumstance obviously, is also a huge learning opportunity. It’s how we become familiar with the unfamiliar, or figure out the gaps in our knowledge. 030
Jane Ruffino @janeruffino.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Swedish work culture enables the fragility of the privileged, so even the concept of psychological safety in the workplace here is weaponized. Anyone different has to feel unsafe so the privileged never experience discomfort. The first time I experienced psych safety for real, it was a *shock* 1342
Christopher Nelson @iamkanyetwitty.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Facts. (Start with wuss/JuCo dropout Charlie Kirk.) 020
Abyssal Dragon @abyssaldragon.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Sadly, to the comfortable, feeling uncomfortable feels like being unsafe. 000
Toadking @toadkingstudios.bsky.social · 30/07/2025Discomfort gets people killed because it's inside the person. They're projecting their fears on people just minding their own business. Black men in the South could be as respectful and "safe" since their life depended on it and still end up lynched cause some white person was uncomfortable. 020
shep @shepherdone.bsky.social · 29/07/2025The trouble is, the safest people see government of, by, and for the people as a threat to their wealth and status, and that's unlikely to change. 021
Erika Winter @mserikawinter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025I find that a good, if imperfect, heuristic is that comfort is internal and safety is external. Being unsafe can make one uncomfortable but being uncomfortable doesn't make one unsafe. 051
D🥀. 🐍hei🧞😱 Add🕴🏻s🕸️n @drsaddison.bsky.social · 29/07/2025I used to offer a classroom guidelines document that distinguished "safety from" vs. "safety to." E.g. not promising "safety from feeling uncomfortable" vs. promising "safety to explore uncomfortable feelings." I got complaints that I told students that "her classroom would be unsafe." 21034
Lurkness Overlord @amazingmagda.bsky.social · 29/07/2025for people who grew up in traumatizing family situations, those two things are usually the same🤔if you felt uncomfortable then it was guaranteed you're also unsafe and opposite 162
Hrimhari @hrimhari.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Educational theory talks about "cognitive disequilibrium" - the feeling that you don't know the answers, that you've run out of your comfort zone This is not only good for education, it is absolutely required. It's not scary. It's an opportunity for growth Some people don't want to grow 1162
rey 🌱 the supa mega gay @kuchanthesilly.bsky.social · 30/07/2025OP pls elaborate on which group of people you mean 🫠 000
Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine @plankysmith.bsky.social · 29/07/2025The Paranoid Style In American Daily Life 021
Anders Schröder @andersschroder.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Can you give an example? Would be helpful to understand your argument. 300
David Cassette @david-cassette.bsky.social · 29/07/2025"uncomfortable" has become this sort of vague weaponised concept that assumes the "uncomfortable" party is victimised. A racist might feel uncomfortable around minorities. A rich person might claim the presence of a homeless person makes them "uncomfortable". The "discomfort" is their own prejudice 0243
akeley.bsky.social @akeley.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Like the distinction between ‘thirsty’ and ‘dehydrated’. 010
Hazel @hazelazureus.bsky.social · 30/07/2025more people need to remember that all substances oxidize eventually some of them much quicker than others, and all of those seem to be the ones we make housing and businesses out of 010
Chiz Chezzle bo Bezzle @chazperella.bsky.social · 29/07/2025This is part of what i mean about the grey buildings. Solve your problem and mine gets solved, vice versa. Our enviroments affect how we feel and what we feel safe to do. 010
Purple Panther @2theinfinitepower.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Therapy and yoga tell us we can breathe through a certain amounts of discomfort and it helps us to actually feel ok in the moment, deal with our fears, and help ourselves and others... i am sure those people think that's demonic though. 050
Jamspangle @jamspangle.bsky.social · 29/07/2025It's fascism 101 - the enemy is simultaneously too weak and too strong 0250
Dee, but not THAT Dee, the other one. @deetoriadee.bsky.social · 29/07/2025This is exactly it. Exactly! 000
Jay Marose aka Stetson Callahan 🦩 @jaymarose.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Bet he was only in the most crowded locations with other people who are not from NYC in July. 0100
ZoeyKnowsStuff @zoeyknowsstuff.bsky.social · 29/07/2025While we're at it, let's also actively practice having uncomfortable conversations. At some point, this country stopped allowing nuance and curiosity into conversations, because those things can be uncomfortable. We need to grapple with new concepts, though. It's how we grow. 1673
JAIL 47 @47forprison.bsky.social · 29/07/2025media.tenor.coma man is pointing up in front of a sign that says " this right here "Alt: a man is pointing up in front of a sign that says " this right here " 000
Juha Uitto @juhanexus.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Absolutely. It cuts both ways, though. Making students uncomfortable by teaching unpleasant truths is the job of universities. It doesn’t threaten the students; it helps them grow and understand the world. 180
bmo kenobi @bmo-kenobi.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Also rich it’s the “fuck your feelings” crowd that feels so uncomfortable. It is also more likely that based on their own policies they won’t have to make a distinction between uncomfortable and unsafe. 1310
Spielmadchen @spielmadchen.bsky.social · 29/07/2025And yesterday, some girl said I made her uncomfortable when I was just being a nice person in a Starbucks. They were never unsafe and I didn’t do anything weird. 000
Miranda @mirandatheb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025A teller at my bank tried to get me to fear the Vet who hangs out on the bus bench out front, sometimes attending to hygiene. Doesn't poop out there, not nude, just tidies himself. I told her I am not afraid. She replied some people are uncomfortable. All I could say was ask him where he served. 1230
Sinja | Minx 🇨🇦⚕🍁🍮♍🔮🌌🏴☠️⛸➕🛹🏞🥮🍁🏺 @chillax-empath.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Definitely, but being comfortable and self-assessing emotions in general. 000
Ross @beefygoblin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025You mean like how everyone keeps their houses too cold at night in the summer? Because the rich could buy Bedjets or whatever the brand for the rich is instead of cooling an entire mansion when you’re under the covers. There are little things like that but unless it’s sold as luxury they don’t sell 120
Max Sahin 🧠🤖🐾 @maxsahin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025It is putting youth at risk, because they struggle to correctly assess when they *are* actually in danger. It makes them vulnerable to people who take advantage while being nice. 0211
Irwin Glenn @irwinglenn.bsky.social · 31/07/2025Interesting point. Uncomfortable+ active imagination An anxiety recipe. 000
Bipolar Viscountess @sharilyn.bsky.social · 29/07/2025This is what I think about every time a non-straphanger scaremongers about riding the NYC subway www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news...cbsnews.comTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy again blasts MTA over subway crime amid congestion pricing debateTransportation Secretary Sean Duffy is blasting the MTA over its handling of subway crime. 050
