throwaway345235

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   by throwaway345235 6y ago

   a) Not everyone thinks they're the good guy; some genuinely don't care. But yes, probably all of the people you mention do think that. b) Nobody said that understanding, or even compassion, is mutually exclusive with action. I can
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   by throwaway345235 6y ago

   There's endorsing ideas, there's considering ideas, and I would add a third tier: sympathizing with a person's legitimately-felt experiences, despite whatever ideas may have grown on top of them
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   by throwaway345235 6y ago

   I don't agree with everything you've said, but I agree with the core idea: that most of the people on the right (maybe not most of the people at the protests, but surely some) are misguided, and not fundamentally evil. They fundam