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Screw feelings. The truth is worth discovering.
Yes, but the implication that feelings and truth are mutually exclusive is often used to bury, dismiss, or invalidate the truths around what feelings people experience, their meaning, importance, and roles in human lives/society.
It's not about stripping feelings from discovery to arrive at truth, but rather charting the truths that feelings are actually pointing to in order to discover more complete truths.
I wouldn't say they're mutually exclusive, way I see it, it's more that there's facts and then there's the way people feel about facts. For example, it shouldn't matter how people feel about the situation in Gaza, whether one is sympathetic towards one side or the other etc. There are facts about what is happening, who is doing it etc that cannot and should not be ignored. The greatest propaganda machine that has ever existed is tirelessly working trying to sway public opinion and it's working. That's why I hate such fucking stupid memes, fuck that girl and her condescending look, keeping quiet is complacency. If you think it doesn't matter what a random idiot online thinks, next thing you know the world is full of random idiots and they control the narrative, and all of a sudden what you thought was a perfectly reasonable position is now a fringe conspiracy theory and Joe Rogan is fair and balanced. Don't look far, how do you think the US ended up with two far right parties?
tell that to everyone who thinks their feelings are the only truth there is.
Oh, I intend to.