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It's the "required pieces of flare" problem. You can be left as all get out, but if you don't speak in the stilted expected movement oriented language, and swa
by Aloha 5y ago
It's the "required pieces of flare" problem.
You can be left as all get out, but if you don't speak in the stilted expected movement oriented language, and swallow the whole enchilada - and sign on to every policy no matter how worthy or good, you don't have the required pieces of flare - and even though you want the same things and would vote for 95% of the things they support, you're thought of as at least suspect if not outright as one of the enemy.
Like I have a focus on broad based poverty reduction, but because I'm not focused on poverty for urban poor people, or BIPOC people, I'm suspect in their head - I support broad based poverty reductions because they create durable electoral coalitions, just focusing on one group or another does the opposite. I have other similar "problematic" perspectives.
Outrage politics works great for winning social credit on social media, but it does very little to solve actual problems.