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Our actions have consequences. I like to ask people what they think about people blocking highways to protest against Donald Trump. People doing dumb things lik
by newjersey 11y ago
Our actions have consequences. I like to ask people what they think about people blocking highways to protest against Donald Trump. People doing dumb things like blocking highways in protest of Trump or pulling his leg in a really makes it easy for his campaign to lump everyone who says he is not fit for office into one group.
Similarly, people who are sensitive about stupid stuff makes it easy for people to lump everyone who has a grievance together into "them" and dismiss their grievances at once. Think the boy who cried wolf but rather than just that one boy getting mauled, it is every single shepherd boy who gets mauled.
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- nmrm2 11y agoThis doesn't actually excuse the lumping of people together, and doesn't make the generalized observations about those groups of people any more or less true... Anyways, this bit of real politic is completely immaterial to my original point, which is that it's stupid and inconsistent to complain about other people's complaining. In particular because your observation about perception works the other way as well.