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It may be unproductive - and for what it's worth, I agree - but it also highlights a core difference of ideology. Call it individualism versus collectivism, per
by LyndsySimon 8y ago
It may be unproductive - and for what it's worth, I agree - but it also highlights a core difference of ideology. Call it individualism versus collectivism, personal responsibility versus victimhood, or whatever else you want to apply to it; the fact remains that conservatives virtue signal by claiming responsibility while liberals virtue signal by assigning victimhood, regardless of whether either of those things are strictly true.
- _bxg1 8y agoThe point is that all of those versus-es you listed are a) spectrums, and b) situational. The latter is more relevant, I think. Always picking personal responsibility or always picking victimhood because "that's your ideology" is like always using a hammer or always using a screwdriver because "that's your tool".
- yayadarsh 8y ago100% agree. This type of dualistic thinking is one of the reasons common political discourse in the US is so unproductive. There are (almost) no simple black/white answers to anything, and the devil is usually in the (grey) details.