RE: Assholes in the news
March 25, 2021 at 1:32 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2021 at 1:41 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Here's the fun part. If it's conservatism that people might genuinely feel is being made a shameful and detestable thing in our society, and if that conservatism could be separated from the white identity politics around which the issue is framed...then, certainly, that would be the best way to approach the subject.
Ala...
I really wish people would stop trying to tell me I'm conservative and I just don't know it. Please get out of my face. And while you're at it, don't teach my kids that they are consevative. They don't even know what it means.
Now, this is just me offering advice as to how to structure a grievance to avoid looking like a flaming racist pos. Still...I don't feel it. I've never been made to feel ashamed of any conservative position I hold. I can talk to people for hours about free markets and traditional values and small government and individual liberties and guns guns guns.......and people often disagree with my opinions on these things....strenuously, but I never get the impression that our disagreement has anything to do with any shame I'm supposed to be feeling about either the color of my skin or the conservative bent of my opinions on these matters.
Something must account for how so many people who share my politics and melanin levels have such a different experience. I wonder if Lek might know what that is, or even could be?
Ala...
I really wish people would stop trying to tell me I'm conservative and I just don't know it. Please get out of my face. And while you're at it, don't teach my kids that they are consevative. They don't even know what it means.
Now, this is just me offering advice as to how to structure a grievance to avoid looking like a flaming racist pos. Still...I don't feel it. I've never been made to feel ashamed of any conservative position I hold. I can talk to people for hours about free markets and traditional values and small government and individual liberties and guns guns guns.......and people often disagree with my opinions on these things....strenuously, but I never get the impression that our disagreement has anything to do with any shame I'm supposed to be feeling about either the color of my skin or the conservative bent of my opinions on these matters.
Something must account for how so many people who share my politics and melanin levels have such a different experience. I wonder if Lek might know what that is, or even could be?
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