• I'm A Different Bird
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    1 year ago

    It’s not a big fucking leap to say that the party making laws against teaching history and wearing certain articles of clothing want to control people and keep them ignorant. If you think it is, or think it’s a “both sides” issue, you’re part of the problem.

    The thing about the golden middle is that it’s a thought-killing fallacy. If you just assume people on both ends are equally nuts, you can just stake out the territory precisely in between them and never actually have to think about the merits or morals of any given policy position.

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      1 year ago

      control every aspect of private life

      I’m not arguing for a golden middle, no need to strawman me. I’m saying that sweeping generalizations like above are just circlejerks.

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        They are literally trying to control what clothes you can wear and what words you can use to refer to yourself.

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          Are they trying to control what breakfast you eat? How you tie your shoes? What music you listen to?

          Extrapolating from a few cases to claim there’s a broad trend is lazy thinking. In the context of political discourse, it creates echochambers, misunderstanding, and hatred. Like conservatives who say “all liberals want to murder babies”