(06-20-2022, 09:46 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(06-20-2022, 06:51 AM)SeldomRite Wrote: Just your equating of crt and liberal ideology told me all I need to know, add to that how mad you seemed about my post and I knew it was better for me to let it go. For what it's worth you seem like an intelligent person. A badly misinformed and poorly principled one, but still an intelligent person. I think you could be better if you let go of whatever trauma is informing your worldview.

You know what? I'll give you the courtesy of explaining why I don't take you seriously. First of all, show me where I said CRT was liberal. I said it was born out of progressive ideology. Liberalism and progressivism are not synonyms. Sorry you don't get that. I have zero problems with liberalism, and I increasingly see the benefits of laws that protect US citizens from greedy elites with the caveat that individualism is paramount, which is a directly in line with American liberalism. Progressivism is born out of collectivist ideology and doesn't give two [BLEEP] about the individual. Liberalism may have driven it to prominence in the US, but progressivism is a different animal entirely, and this distinction is the primary reason there is infighting in the Democratic party. Admittedly, this is an oversimplification of the two ideologies, but if you want to go into it at length, create another thread, and we can discuss it. The main point is they are not the same.

As for the mad about your post... your post was "Bruh." Who the [BLEEP] are you to bruh me? It's not like you are some intellectual giant that I've gone toe to toe with in previous discussions. You've never shown yourself to be particularly well read or willing to honestly engage on a topic in depth. You can't even get the point that I picked CRT because I know it's something FSG wouldn't want forced on him by the government, not because I think it's the same thing as vaccines. Nothing annoys me more than people who "crack the code" of breaking down analogous content. You literally can point out a difference in any single analogy because they are NEVER the same thing, otherwise, it wouldn't be an analogy. 

So, no... I didn't EQUATE the two. I just substituted one for the other because we are talking about the role the government should play in leveraging the power of the federal government against businesses to get them to do their bidding. We are not comparing vaccines to CRT. The choice I made there is irrelevant. It's like if I said, I would really like to fly like a bird or a bat, and you responded with "they are completely different." No [BLEEP].

I was going to write a long response, but it would probably just lead to more arguing that I don't see a point in. I'll just leave it at apologizing for thinking you had committed the oft encountered mistake of conflating liberalism and progressivism.

I will say, since the bruh thing seems to have gotten under your skin, it was because you were conflating indoctrination, which the government should have no interest in or right to do, and protection of public safety, which is one of the government's strongest mandates.

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