We haven’t left the liberal world of tone policing and word-crimes unfortunately. When we started attacking the way people talk instead of what they talk about, it was the last nail in the coffin of progressivism, right after guns and flags.
Groups of armed, patriotic people united in a cause and unflinching in their language have been the political capital that have overthrown systems and preserved democracy or at least order and governing for better outcomes for literally thousands of years. (Or they are what we need to defend against other groups of armed nationalists.) I am still baffled why we let this hyper-soft, stupid, pandering-to-the-lowest-most-sensitive-denominator movement represent progressive policy in America.
We haven’t left the liberal world of tone policing and word-crimes unfortunately. When we started attacking the way people talk instead of what they talk about, it was the last nail in the coffin of progressivism, right after guns and flags.
Groups of armed, patriotic people united in a cause and unflinching in their language have been the political capital that have overthrown systems and preserved democracy or at least order and governing for better outcomes for literally thousands of years. (Or they are what we need to defend against other groups of armed nationalists.) I am still baffled why we let this hyper-soft, stupid, pandering-to-the-lowest-most-sensitive-denominator movement represent progressive policy in America.
I don’t have a single thing to add to this. You’ve earned a tag, I don’t know what yet but it’s gonna be positive.