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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The main problem with too many "ah poor thing" articles is that it leads to compassion fatigue. Eventually, if you are constantly told that every little thing you do is wrong, you are just going to give up and have fun.[/quote]

Yes, it's better to not hear from anyone about their lives and the impacts this or that has on them. We don't want to hear about ordinary people! Silence their voices![/quote]

speak if you want.  but don't kid yourself about what the effect of your speach will be on others.[/quote]

Clearly. Lots of hostility here for one person speaking about her own experience. Can't imagine chiding someone for sharing her story, one that most of us will never experience, just because you're mad to have to think about someone else.[/quote]

it’s not about this person. it’s about the endless, nonstop, litany of oppression-porn coming from NPR. [/quote]

Yes, it's just so tiresome to hear about other people's lives, as long as those lives are not perfect. We don't want to hear about it. We don't have the capacity to be thoughtful and empathetic.[/quote]

indeed we should just listen to sob stories all day every day.  we'll all become much better people if we do that.  and of course the people who bring us these stories cap  n be a new kind of secular saint.[/quote]

What a sad, selfish worldview you have. You’re the kind of person who would benefit from listening to NPR. [/quote]

Not a single thing about all the antisemitism going on in the world. But stories about someone mad about Halloween costumes makes the cut. https://www.npr.org/[/quote]

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