"Your charge of "True Leftists are still children"
Hmm, I think I need to have a think about how these conversations are presented as Dan also thought this is was me who was saying this. The title of this post (and almost all the posts here) is a quote from the person I'm tolling to in the conversation. Stefan in this case. He says that "…
"Your charge of "True Leftists are still children"
Hmm, I think I need to have a think about how these conversations are presented as Dan also thought this is was me who was saying this. The title of this post (and almost all the posts here) is a quote from the person I'm tolling to in the conversation. Stefan in this case. He says that "true leftists are still children" in his first comment and I thought it was a snappy title.
Interesting... My bad, I normally am not confused by the format. However, I walk behind my words in my agreement, it turns out with Stefan.
The world is not fair. Adults may try to reduce that unfairness, at least I hope so, but not whine about it like a child that discovered his sister got a cookie. Of course, the left doesn't have a monopoly on that, it's part of the spectrum of human emotion and behavior. At this point in time the political right whines about "mah freedom" where the government is the oppressor. So perhaps I should discard my bias as if the left does have a monopoly on that stuff.
“ However, I walk behind my words in my agreement, it turns out with Stefan.”
Yeah, as I said to Stefan, this depends on how you’re defining “leftist”.
It’s true that the world isn’t fair, of course, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make it fairer. Indeed, we *have* made it fairer.
Most of us who have time to debate these matters on the internet have nothing to whine about. Life has already been more than fair to us. This is what’s so infuriating about the whiners on Medium. They act as if their lives are hell when they are objectively better than most people’s.
But the point is that the majority of people who genuinely *are* less fortunate than us aren’t “whining”. They simply struggle in ways and for reasons that we often fail to consider. Partly because they don’t really have a voice. And partly because our lives, with whatever challenges they include, are still far better.
"Your charge of "True Leftists are still children"
Hmm, I think I need to have a think about how these conversations are presented as Dan also thought this is was me who was saying this. The title of this post (and almost all the posts here) is a quote from the person I'm tolling to in the conversation. Stefan in this case. He says that "true leftists are still children" in his first comment and I thought it was a snappy title.
It's not a reflection of my personal views😅
Interesting... My bad, I normally am not confused by the format. However, I walk behind my words in my agreement, it turns out with Stefan.
The world is not fair. Adults may try to reduce that unfairness, at least I hope so, but not whine about it like a child that discovered his sister got a cookie. Of course, the left doesn't have a monopoly on that, it's part of the spectrum of human emotion and behavior. At this point in time the political right whines about "mah freedom" where the government is the oppressor. So perhaps I should discard my bias as if the left does have a monopoly on that stuff.
“ However, I walk behind my words in my agreement, it turns out with Stefan.”
Yeah, as I said to Stefan, this depends on how you’re defining “leftist”.
It’s true that the world isn’t fair, of course, but that doesn’t mean we can’t make it fairer. Indeed, we *have* made it fairer.
Most of us who have time to debate these matters on the internet have nothing to whine about. Life has already been more than fair to us. This is what’s so infuriating about the whiners on Medium. They act as if their lives are hell when they are objectively better than most people’s.
But the point is that the majority of people who genuinely *are* less fortunate than us aren’t “whining”. They simply struggle in ways and for reasons that we often fail to consider. Partly because they don’t really have a voice. And partly because our lives, with whatever challenges they include, are still far better.