4 ms·
I mean let's be at least a little real here, and I identify as Left, but for a lot of people the protests and upheaval were a cure for boredom, conveniently pac
by diffrinse 6y ago
I mean let's be at least a little real here, and I identify as Left, but for a lot of people the protests and upheaval were a cure for boredom, conveniently packaged in a morally indignant reply to "What about the viral pandemic we have no cure to?".
I really don't see much difference in people going after direct Right wing protest to the lockdown itself and people saying the lockdown is somehow superseded by moral virtue: in either case you are saying some higher principle overrides your duty to your fellow human beings (in keeping the curve low...). This "letter of the law over all"/legalism is, in my experience, the basis for modern all American ethical negotiation and it has to be changed.
Just earlier this week the CDC chose not to admonish protesters for the worthiness of their cause: that should be orthogonal to the CDC's duty!
- mywittyname 6y agoI think it's fair to say Cause A is worth the risk of spreading the pandemic while Cause B is not. Especially when Cause A is linked to the murder and maiming of so many people while Cause B is a bunch of complainy-pants people complaining.
- noobaccount 6y agoThat appears to be the opinion of our impartial health officials, yes.
- yellowbuilding 6y agoIf you don’t comprehend that the protests were a result of the historically unprecedented economic collapse, you don’t have a politically left bone in your body.
- diffrinse 6y agoOf course they were but that's not what any of the popular public discourse has been about.
- gnusty_gnurc 6y agoAgreed. Doctors and scientists should be disseminating knowledge about the spread of coronavirus. Instead they're offering policy endorsements about political activity. The whole "racism is about public health" line is blatantly dogmatic political activity and I shudder to think of what this would look like on the right.
- esyir 6y agoFrom what I've seen of those on the right, they see it as ideological capture of core institutions by the left. I can't really refute that.