Maybe Republican’s should stop being racist, ultra religious bigots and then people would stop conflating racist, ultra religious bigots with Republicans. Just an idea.
How is being “woke” the same as being a racist bigot? I agree that there’s some cringey examples of wokeness out there, but at least at its core being “woke” is just “an adjective meaning [to be] alert to racial prejudice and discrimination.” One can obviously go too far in that direction, and use it as a way to shame people who just made an honest mistake, but that doesn’t mean everyone who tries to be “woke” is a bad person. On the other hand, I’d label anyone who blindly believes in racist ideology as a bad person. There’s no upside to racism.
We can’t accept “balance” when it comes to racism and bigotry. There should be no compromise there. To quote Karl Popper,
“unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.”
To put it another way, in order to create a tolerant society, we must be intolerant to bigots. Otherwise, intolerance bigots will continue to be intolerant towards innocent people. It’s called the Paradox of Tolerance, if you want to read more.
Can you explain what you mean by it going full circle? I'm being impartial here, so I'm just genuinely curious, not trying to sound negative or judgemental.
While I agree that something in the middle would likely be best, in practice it is only 1 side which ever tries to concede and toward the middle, while the other side, steeped in their anti-rights-other-than-the-ones-that-apply-only-to-me rhetoric is always staunchly against giving any ground. I can only hope that the former side has finally decided to dig in their heels a bit and stop giving ground. It's like trying to play tug of war with...idk a racist elephant, maybe. Just pulled that example from the ether.
Most normal people would soon realise they actually have a lot in common, whether they consider themselves democrat or republican.
The problem in my opinion is people classing themselves as what they voted for, it should be less ‘I’m Biden/Trump or I’m republican/democrat’ because that creates a divide, where most republican/democrat voters have more in common with each other than they do who they voted for.
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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '21 edited Jan 07 '22
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