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Do you have any sources for that, or is it just prejudice?

t-writescode 6y ago
It’s an analysis of what I’ve seen. People hate Biden for stances he has in the past and they bring them up regularly. Same with Harris. People are thrown in prison for decades to keep them away from everyone and then they’re denied jobs on then basis that they were once a criminal. People mocked John Kerry on the very basis that he _did_ change his mind on an issue, and so on. The very basis of a lot of relationship advice on Reddit, at least, is that “people never change”, therefore ‘you should dump the person’. I’m sure that if you asked a person about a specific person that they know and have known, they’ll say how this person isn’t the person they were; but then that same person will go on and talk about someone they don’t in absolute terms about how a change is not genuine or cannot happen. I don’t have sources, I’m sorry, just life experience and an attempt to understand the world I live in.
- lefrenchy 6y ago
  > People hate Biden for stances he has in the past and they bring them up regularly. > People are thrown in prison for decades to keep them away from everyone and then they’re denied jobs on then basis that they were once a criminal. These two things are related though, are they not? Biden wrote the '94 crime bill, which contributed to this criminalization. Sure it's good that he admits he was wrong, but do we just forgive and forget? People's lives were ruined. Considering he is accountable to the public, doesn't it make sense this poisons people's opinions of him for good? For instance with gay marriage, Bernie Sanders was supportive of gay marriage much before Joe Biden was. Should Bernie not be credited with being ahead of the curve with this, and should it not give him more credibility that he did not flip his opinion when it became popular? I think this applies even less to large orgs like the FBI where the is a lot of inertia with regards to cultural shifts

It’s an analysis of what I’ve seen. People hate Biden for stances he has in the past and they bring them up regularly. Same with Harris. People are thrown in prison for decades to keep them away from everyone and then they’re denied jobs on then basis that they were once a criminal. People mocked John Kerry on the very basis that he _did_ change his mind on an issue, and so on. The very basis of a lot of relationship advice on Reddit, at least, is that “people never change”, therefore ‘you should dump the person’. I’m sure that if you asked a person about a specific person that they know and have known, they’ll say how this person isn’t the person they were; but then that same person will go on and talk about someone they don’t in absolute terms about how a change is not genuine or cannot happen. I don’t have sources, I’m sorry, just life experience and an attempt to understand the world I live in.

lefrenchy 6y ago
> People hate Biden for stances he has in the past and they bring them up regularly. > People are thrown in prison for decades to keep them away from everyone and then they’re denied jobs on then basis that they were once a criminal. These two things are related though, are they not? Biden wrote the '94 crime bill, which contributed to this criminalization. Sure it's good that he admits he was wrong, but do we just forgive and forget? People's lives were ruined. Considering he is accountable to the public, doesn't it make sense this poisons people's opinions of him for good? For instance with gay marriage, Bernie Sanders was supportive of gay marriage much before Joe Biden was. Should Bernie not be credited with being ahead of the curve with this, and should it not give him more credibility that he did not flip his opinion when it became popular? I think this applies even less to large orgs like the FBI where the is a lot of inertia with regards to cultural shifts