Imagine if these people used that logic for the ‘lived realities’ of say the Tea Party movement or QAnon. Afterall, they have a deeply held set of grievances too and they could - using her logic - say that we can’t possibly understand their grievances against ‘Progressives’ because we’re not white, rural and Christian. Wouldn’t that be v…
Imagine if these people used that logic for the ‘lived realities’ of say the Tea Party movement or QAnon. Afterall, they have a deeply held set of grievances too and they could - using her logic - say that we can’t possibly understand their grievances against ‘Progressives’ because we’re not white, rural and Christian. Wouldn’t that be valid. To reappropriate Melissa’s phrase:
“Once again, I am begging non-rural white people to stop telling us what is and is not against the values and culture of rural white people.”
But hang on, if we used the same logic for them, we’d have to stop fighting a dumb Culture War because every identity group would be equally beyond reproach for their views, because their ‘lived realities’ would be untouchable.
So massive respect to Melissa for inadvertently ending the Culture War 🙌🏻
"But hang on, if we used the same logic for them, we’d have to stop fighting a dumb Culture War because every identity group would be equally beyond reproach for their views, because their ‘lived realities’ would be untouchable."
No, no, it's only when the people on "our side" hide behind "lived experience" that we're expected to listen. What harm could possibly come from having one rule for us and anther for everybody with different immutable traits? After all, our side is always right, remember?😉
It's a common theme already. Reframe something as racism (or another demonizing word) and then say "there's no two sides to racism!". I mean, you don't have a debate with Hitler, after all.
It's a fairly common tactic. Of course what it deliberately omits it that there may be two sides to the question of whether something actually IS racism, and thus can be deemed to have only "one possible side" for any decent person worth the oxygen they consume.
Imagine if these people used that logic for the ‘lived realities’ of say the Tea Party movement or QAnon. Afterall, they have a deeply held set of grievances too and they could - using her logic - say that we can’t possibly understand their grievances against ‘Progressives’ because we’re not white, rural and Christian. Wouldn’t that be valid. To reappropriate Melissa’s phrase:
“Once again, I am begging non-rural white people to stop telling us what is and is not against the values and culture of rural white people.”
But hang on, if we used the same logic for them, we’d have to stop fighting a dumb Culture War because every identity group would be equally beyond reproach for their views, because their ‘lived realities’ would be untouchable.
So massive respect to Melissa for inadvertently ending the Culture War 🙌🏻
"But hang on, if we used the same logic for them, we’d have to stop fighting a dumb Culture War because every identity group would be equally beyond reproach for their views, because their ‘lived realities’ would be untouchable."
No, no, it's only when the people on "our side" hide behind "lived experience" that we're expected to listen. What harm could possibly come from having one rule for us and anther for everybody with different immutable traits? After all, our side is always right, remember?😉
Right, in fact I can see ‘there’s one side to every story’ really taking off as a phrase. Watch this space…
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It's a common theme already. Reframe something as racism (or another demonizing word) and then say "there's no two sides to racism!". I mean, you don't have a debate with Hitler, after all.
It's a fairly common tactic. Of course what it deliberately omits it that there may be two sides to the question of whether something actually IS racism, and thus can be deemed to have only "one possible side" for any decent person worth the oxygen they consume.
As Thomas Sowell puts it “…those who see themselves as fighting on the side of the angels against the forces of evil.”