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> I propose that that "Nice but not Kind" caricature is actually incredibly rare to the point of non-existence. It tends to be used by the right to describe the
by anamax 5y ago
> I propose that that "Nice but not Kind" caricature is actually incredibly rare to the point of non-existence. It tends to be used by the right to describe the entire left - as virtue signaling, caring-about-optics, overly politically-correct, social justice warriors.
Does anyone think that "virtue-signaling, caring-about-optics, overly politically correct, social justice warriers" are being nice? Heck - do they think that they're being nice?
> They're using this exclusively to criticize caring or small incremental progress forward.
You're assuming that everyone views that as "caring" and "progress forward."
- cgrealy 5y ago> Does anyone think that "virtue-signaling, caring-about-optics, overly politically correct, social justice warriers" are being nice? That's not the point. You can paint the entire left as "virtue-signaling, caring-about-optics, overly politically correct, social justice warriors", and you can paint the entire right as "racist, misogynist, overly religious homophobes". And you can certainly find examples of those people, but it's reductive, and untrue for most people, on either side. Most left-leaning people do actually go out of their way to be kind... hell, most humans do. I lived through a natural disaster and I can tell you that no one was asking the politics of the people helping to clean up.