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===MORAL LUCK and why moderates and the left can be just as bad as trump supporters===  

damngina39 47T
34 posts
12/3/2020 12:27 pm
===MORAL LUCK and why moderates and the left can be just as bad as trump supporters===


This rant was spurred from my unwillingness to welcome any people that support trump:
Too many people take credit for things they did nothing to earn. The left pretend to be more woke but in the end they are just privileged in their environments and circles. The reality is I am privileged to know empathy by growing up in a melting pot of different cultures so I know we are all the same. If I were raised in a conservative environment where it was predominately white and bigotry was an everyday thing I would fall easily to the prey of "othering". This would be the case till new information or logic was given to me, not self taught. This doesnt give you the answers to beliefs as much as tell you to think this way or another. It does not give you the logical tools to see contradiction or hypocrisy in a belief or even why you believe it.
Because of this the left can be on the right side of a problem with the correct answers but couldn't show their work on how they got there. Someone can say why they believe in womens rights but not ground it in any axiom or rule on how they came to that conclusion.
Some so-called progressives and moderates have the same failings but we rarely see them because they had the "moral luck" of their circles being democratic or leftist which in the end is just way more correct by default. You can think I am full of shit but think of trying to prove someone should be given basic respect over being a conservative and trying to prove Trump is intelligent, one is a way harder task. Think of it like choosing a team based on the people you are around and that team actually having almost all the correct answers through no effort of yours. They didnt learn any more than anyone bigoted conservative and they sure as hell dont know how to base their morality to any axiom of logic, they just had the luck of being raised in an urban and more progressive city.
An easy test did come our way in 2016 that can be explained best by a story:
imagine a plane crashes on a deserted island. The survivors all pool the food<b> supplies </font></b>they find and ration them and this works for 20 days straight. In the middle of the night, the food is completely ravaged. In the morning when it is discovered the food has been eaten, another survivor, shows up on a makeshift raft, dehydrated, nothing but skin and bones. Just then two survivors walk up with chocolate smeared all over their faces, bellies full, and point to the newly arrived as the thief. The people that then chose to blame the stranger and not the two gluttonous thieves are the trump supporters, correct on the descriptive(we no longer have food) but wrong in their prescriptive solutions( blame the immigrant) because of bias or hypocrisy they are ok with never questioning.
So that was a test in 2016 to see if you had the basic human empathy and logic for people that don't look like you and every person that voted for Trump failed because their selfish goals were way more important than a person hurt by the rhetoric of xenophobia, transphobia, anti-immigrant, and anti-muslim. Not that they were all bigots but their apathy and selfishness were why I had to draw the line there.
The left was never given a test to see if they cared more about their ego than their beliefs until this primary. A test to see if they believed in non-contradiction when it came to violence until they started saying it's ok to punch a nazi and eventually people that voted for nazis, then trump supporters, etc. I now know how people called deplorables would double down and vote for a tyrant. The same way a news report that said random bernie supporters on twitter could make a progressive throw their whole belief structure out the window and say never bernie. The left just havent had the test yet or it is in progress and a fuck ton of them are failing because they dont care to not lie to get their way. Because they demand from others that they wont do themselves. Because winning is more than not being factual and the ends justify the means. This is way harder to sift through but moderates and supposed progressives actually are in the middle of a test whether they know it. If they fail they will double down instead of admitting they were wrong. They will respond because of emotion and not what is right.
I love differing opinions, I surround myself with people whom i vehemently disagree with, but I cannot abide with disingenuous fucks who are willing to lie to win an argument. To smear a person because a narrative is out there they can just repeat like Bernie is a misogynist because it may change a mind or two. Say what you want but don't be a purposeful liar, a constant hypocrite, or you are no better than a trump supporter.

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