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Your snarkiness is inappropriate here and your politics a symbol of unhelpful political discourse everywhere in this country. I don't care what a few politicia
by colechristensen 4y ago
Your snarkiness is inappropriate here and your politics a symbol of unhelpful political discourse everywhere in this country.
I don't care what a few politicians wrote in a bill, it doesn't rise to what "North Carolina wants" or what their local party wants. You shouldn't take idiots so seriously or focus on this "ha! gotcha!" kind of political nonsense.
The bill is stupid, the people sponsoring it are stupid, let's not inflate that to saying that everybody in their party is a hypocrite because of a bill they introduced. You want to go on a crusade against these individuals, go ahead, but it's generally uninteresting and unhelpful to anyone.
If we focus on making broad generalizations based on stupid statehouse bills around the country, we will certainly never get anything done besides a lively bit of insulting each other.
- suture 4y agoDon’t need to make a broad generalization to say that the proposal in question is hypocritical. One can say, “The people who made this proposal are being hypocritical and they are wrong for doing so.” It is always appropriate to admit that someone’s actions are hypocritical regardless of what “side” one is on. I believe the failure of people to point out individual acts of hypocrisy is what leads, overtime, to people making stereotypes. Importantly one should note that the leadership of the Republican Party fails to admonish those who came up with this dumb proposal. (Yes, Democratic leadership rarely calls out Democratic lawmakers making really bad proposals but right now we are talking about the Republican Party.). For instance, the leadership isn’t saying, “This is contrary to our principle of small government.” So it is OK to use a bit of a broad brush in this case.