Nope. Bigotry and an unwillingness to confront bigotry gave us president Trump.
That, and an opposition party willing to betray victims of bigotry in order to compromise with bigotry.
If Republicans want compromise they need to own their shit.
No compromise with atrocity.
That, and an opposition party willing to betray victims of bigotry in order to compromise with bigotry.
If Republicans want compromise they need to own their shit.
No compromise with atrocity.
I’m glad countercheckist doesn’t think his fellow Americans are his enemies.
Nice start.
Confusing the effect of our division with the cause of our division will not help us.
Nice start.
Confusing the effect of our division with the cause of our division will not help us.
I’m not having a debate over whether special needs kids deserve health care.
I’m not compromising on the premise “gays don’t deserve equal rights in our society.”
I’m not having a discussion over whether or not it’s OK for cops to kill unarmed black people.
I’m not compromising on the premise “gays don’t deserve equal rights in our society.”
I’m not having a discussion over whether or not it’s OK for cops to kill unarmed black people.
Our brothers and sisters deserve not to hear us have such debates about their lives in their fates, or to compromise over them and credit it to ourselves as righteousness.
Any Republican who thinks compromise with Republicans doesn’t involve these sorts of evil bargains is kidding themselves about what it means to be a Republican.
Donald Trump ran a campaign of pure bigotry, hate, and menace, republicans gobbled it up, and anybody who wants to tell me others are now responsible for him by not being open-minded enough in opposition, needs to rewrite their whole paper before returning it to me.
Thought for the morning is, which I think fits as tag to this thread: there's always something our society used to do that now seems obviously shocking.
Example: We used to smoke everywhere. We used to smoke on planes. In classrooms. Hospitals. Everywhere.
Shocking.
But we took it for granted, at the time. Of course we'll install ashtrays in airplane armrests. Of course.
Shocking.
But we took it for granted, at the time. Of course we'll install ashtrays in airplane armrests. Of course.
What I hope future people are shocked by is this: our present willingness to erase harm being done to others by compromising with those who intend to do that harm, or by accepting their ever-shifting philosophical frameworks, which are obviously abusive self-serving horseshit.
Our proclivity to see those who make such compromise as open-minded and respectable.
Our tradition of seeing those who won't as close-minded and divisive.
Our tradition of seeing those who won't as close-minded and divisive.
So many of these maddening opinion pieces today are written by people who have grown intellectually lazy by successfully mining their own complacency.
They expect praise for their broad-minded consideration of harmful nonsense from empowered people.
They can't have it anymore.
They expect praise for their broad-minded consideration of harmful nonsense from empowered people.
They can't have it anymore.
Many offended by the anger they face for their beliefs are simply experiencing, for the 1st time, consequences for the harm those beliefs allow and cause
They've coasted until now, confident those who disagree with them will do so politely
I dare hope that's ending. It should.
They've coasted until now, confident those who disagree with them will do so politely
I dare hope that's ending. It should.
You don't heal with complacency; you just ignore.
Indifference isn't broad-mindedness; it's just laziness.
And compromise is a good tool, but a bad principle.
Indifference isn't broad-mindedness; it's just laziness.
And compromise is a good tool, but a bad principle.
