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JaziTricks's avatar

this excellent piece ignores a middle logical step in the process. I'll name it "how standard left wing ideological attitudes have partially enabled those lunacies"

1. systematically ignoring the existence of tradeoffs.

not clapping has a definite minor benefit of giving the occasional student a better feeling. but how about the damage to the regular experience of everyone else?

proper social justice tries to balance public inconvenience with helping disadvantaged individuals.

thus, delaying the bus 2 minutes to help a disabled person come on = some inconvenience in order to help a person get the critical use of the bus. = balanced.

1,000 students losing an experience for maybe preventing a minor psychological pain for one student = ridiculously unbalanced.

this tradeoffs ignoring can be found everywhere in progressive circles. defund the police is the greatest example. how can anyone just live in lala land where no police is something to even consider? simple: tradeoffs don't exist. we see the good of our progressive idea. the negatives aren't to be considered.

whenever welfare policies are discussed, the costs to the average citizens doesn't exist. the side effects of welfare (some side effects always exist) are almost a crime to mention, let alone research thoroughly.

same with unintended consequences

2. no grey areas.

normal humans accept black White and grey.

you can be nice, you can be violent (call the police), and you can engage in endless things in the middle. where we don't do aggressive counter actions, nor do we approve it.

but progressivism sometime simply refuse to accept the grey zone concept. every sexual activity is either rape/harassment or wholesome sexual unity.

this makes life black White, and easy. while life is messy confusing and complicated!

this is why even thinking gets difficult. because without the option for grey, thinking properly is impossible.

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Helen of Cymska's avatar

It’s even more simple. Study communism in

The early USSR. Suppression of and imprisonment of any scientist that presented date contrary to the regime.

It is horrifying it’s reached out shores ....

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