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"it should fucking terrify you that a movement that’s been tasked with addressing pressing social problems is designed in such a way that any substantial critic
by mvzvm 6y ago
"it should fucking terrify you that a movement that’s been tasked with addressing pressing social problems is designed in such a way that any substantial criticism is met with aggressive punishment. "
Couldn't agree more. As someone very liberal that is also exhausted of wokeness, of the constant normalization of racism against whites, and against asians (as model minorities), this hits the nail on the head.
- lawwantsin17 6y agoAnyone who says something should terrify me is trying to terrify me and should be ignored.
- silicon2401 6y agoSame; the worst about this, imo, is the duplicity and hypocrisy. So many people today are using the very tactics that they criticize: division, judgment, hatred, prejudice, exclusion, so on and so on
- mlthoughts2018 6y agoWhat terrifies me are the people shooting and killing asians, cops shooting and killing black people, white evangelicals choosing to believe in QAnon over vaccine science... Maybe after we get a break from widespread hate groups SHOOTING AND KILLING THESE PEOPLE ON A PRACTICALLY WEEKLY BASIS AT THIS POINT, TRYING TO LITERALLY RAM OPPOSING POLITICAL PARTY BUSES OFF THE ROAD, AND LITERALLY PERPETRATING INSURRECTION AGAINST THE CAPITOL THREE MONTHS AGO AT THE EMPHATIC BEHEST OF A SITTING PRESIDENT then I can crack open a cold one, sink back in my recliner and merely be “fucking terrified” of some overblown depiction of over reaching in the name of political correctness.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoHonest question: Do you think the current deplorable spate of attacks against Asians is being driven by wokeness?
- mc32 6y agoWhat do the FBI stats say compared to other groups. I imagine we have stats that will tell us what’s happening. Who’s commuting what and where. NYC has stats on these crimes. NYC is also progressive and yet has a lot of this kind of crime.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoDoes the FBI publish stats on whether the attacker was left or right?
- AstralStorm 6y agoYou can be progressive in one place while not solving the big systemic issue in another. Stats are just numbers. If you police one area much more strongly, you will get higher numbers. Same when people in that area are poor, you would get more property crime. The fact that the numbers stay high point to a failure of policing as the correct approach. More of a failed approach apparently does not fix it.
- mc32 6y agoThese are crimes reported by victims so I think it’s not the same as buying weed or knocking a bodega and getting caught.
- AstralStorm 6y agoIndeed, but even responsiveness to reporting depends on kind of policing, and the kind of victim. You get very different responses, that even not including the social bias for reporting certain crimes by specific people, and whether vigilantism is seen as the answer, or silence - with reporting seen as waste of time.
- AstralStorm 6y agoBut can you accept the criticism that you just might be trying to silence criticism yourself? (Especially when you level charges with no proof, or use tiny examples as a counterweight to actually big problems. One of your points is valid, most are not a real thing.)