throwaway6274

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by throwaway6274 6y ago
> conservative justice at best hold the line on social issues, or continue to move forward. The difference is that—unlike racial justice, women's rights, and gay rights—in this case abortion was a mistake and so the step forward wou
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
I don’t understand how you can say something like that with a clear conscience. But then again I don’t understand how China can treat the Uighurs the way they are and sleep at night either. I suppose people just rationalize other people in
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
~50% of the population continues to support abortion, so I’d say we have a very long way to go.
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
> You are in an unenviable position Yep, it doesn’t seem to be a common position, for sure. I have heard of the American Solidarity Party and like some of their viewpoints, but I think that any consenting adults should be able to have a
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
How strange, as I’m the opposite. I’m about as anti-conservative as they come: UBI, legalize almost everything, universal healthcare and insurance, but I’m extremely against abortion.
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
I don’t disagree with you by the way. I find virtue signaling to be rather useless (if not outright harmful to helping causes).
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
> Not a single virtue signaling white executive that I know of has resigned their position to "increase diversity" Founder of Reddit: https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/05/tech/alexis-ohanian-reddit
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
It’s really weird because purity and shaming tactics used to be the domain of the far right (hundreds of years ago). It’s now switched to the far left. I’m a big believer in horseshoe theory. Born in a different household or time period, t
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
I remember a long time ago in middle school, I read a book called Red Scarf Girl. It is a memoir by a girl during the Cultural Revolution in China. As a middle schooler, I didn’t think too much about the book other than what strange rules s
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
Ok, clearly this was posted as a veiled reference to something occurring in current events. I’ll take a guess at the intended subject: Candace Owens?
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
I don’t support Trump and am not even conservative but look how I got downvoted when I pointed out that someone misquoted him. Sorry, you want to claim that conservatives ignore facts and then proceed to downvote me when I literally refere
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
> "when they start looting, we start shooting" Umm... except that’s not what he said though. If it was, I would completely agree with you that it is an incitement (more accurately, a proclamation) of violence. But what he actu
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by throwaway6274 6y ago
Devil’s advocate thought experiment: suppose I was a CEO of a large social media company and my personal view is pro-life. Should I remove pro-choice posts (or censor them with violence labels), or should I allow discussion on the topic eve