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Originally Posted by Lune
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As someone who grew up in a wealthy, Republican (fiscal conservative) household and community, and became more left-leaning after university, I've become increasingly disappointed with the character of liberalism and progressives.
While, economically, I'll always seek a healthy balance between laissez-faire and interventionism, things like:
-Covering up the mass-sexual-assault incidents
-Flooding Europe and the US with third world immigrants
-Multiculturalism
-Completely misunderstanding the extent to which politics and religion are intertwined for most Muslims
-Faulting Charlie Hebdo for drawing Muhammad instead of terrorists for being animals
-Radical feminism, safe space, white cis-male privilege, etc etc
-Irrational gun hate
... have so thoroughly ruined progressivism for me that I'm not even sure I identify that way anymore. A lot of these things aren't just championed by 'radicals' or 'extremists' either. I just got hired to tutor college students in Anatomy, Chemistry, Physics, etc, and I have to do a fucking training seminar on safe spaces as part of my employment. I think people like Bill Maher capture progressivism as it should be, reasonably, but sadly the whole thing seems to be evolving away from that, going down the toilet just like conservatism has since Reagan.
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The only thing that resonated "as me" with this list, was Irrational gun hate.. Me? personally I hate guns and I think they are dangerous and stupid and for the simple minded.. but I DO NOT THINK it is an issue that should be politicized right now. thats actually part of the reason I love Bernie so much, he doest either.. its too divisive.
I suppose yes i don't care about muslims, but I don't see you posting about accidental gun deaths, which equate to MORE death in america than muslim terrorism. Well aside for 9/11 which I will give you... Im just not going to let that ONE instance, guide my entire belief system like many others.
mass sex assault? - you def going to go out on a limb here.
multiculturalism? - I suppose yu mean that i am unwilling to admit that skin color has NO natural effect on your ability to do ANYTHING. or maybe that its I respect other cultures because they are just as good and just as bad as americans, who are pretty fucking scummy if you actually look at them objectively.
radical feminist? I am simply a feminist, and my feminism ends when someone disagrees that I think Miley Cyrus is the most prolific feminist of our generation.