McParadigm wrote:epilogue wrote:Unsurprised.
Like I said.
Burt’s attitude on oppression is identical to his attitude on speech restrictions: it’s wrong unless someone I like is doing it to someone I don’t like.
If the White House declared tomorrow that corporations must start screening applicants for evidence of leftist attitudes, or else be subject to fines or investigation, he would say “lol.”
If they end gay marriage, he won’t care about that either. “Weird. Seems like they’re the only ones left who wanted to get married.”
If they sent the military in to occupy Chicago or LA tomorrow, he’d be entertained as hell.
I don’t think he is personally bigoted, I just genuinely don’t think he cares about anybody else. He’ll probably read that as an insult, but it’s not meant as one. Some folks, that’s just how they’re born.
But I do think you’re gonna see him defend plenty of oppression against plenty of people before this whole thing is over.
That's such horseshit. Stop making up hypotheticals and straw men to dunk on.
No, I would not actually say lol if the white house started demanding leftists be screened out of corporations (well, I would find it kinda funny, I admit). Some will say that it's giving the left a taste of their own medicine, but I reject this because you people will never learn the lesson and see the light, and it just further normalizes the
idea that I would have eradicated from the earth. And I have no doubt that you'd wholeheartedly support screening the right out everywhere.
I would, however, happily support banning the government from supporting, funding and requiring leftist departments of commissars, in government or private business. And again: no, it isn't oppression when you lose the privilege of tax payer support for your bullshit.
Again: what oppression?
Glancing through the article, of the things mentioned, bans from the military are the only thing that rises to any oppression, but depending on how it effects military effectiveness, it could be somewhat understandable (as the military is inherently oppressive and discriminatory). No, you aren't oppressed because you can't pummel women in a boxing ring or give your poor kids life altering surgery based on nothing.
Epilogue's thesis is fundamentally wrong, not to mention willfully dishonest. Debates around these issues do exist, There are not only trans people and the people who support them, and the people who support their oppression. Talk about a binary! This is "with us or against us" dishonest rhetoric. The only purpose of such rhetoric is to shut down debate. And everyone knows that, which is why the idea is mocked everywhere now.
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