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Originally Posted by MattyC
I think a counter point to this is that a lot of those beliefs haven't really been tried in the forms that we, the left (I hate pigeonholing myself but whatever), are advocating for, and the defenses that seem to come up are based around "well you can't do that" or "that's impossible" when we have seen many "impossible" things become possible or even ordinary. And you combine that with what seems like a fundamental problem with adapting to new information and the perspective that the "right's" ideals have been in practice for generations and are currently crumbling around us, yet the right trots them out like they are the only things that ever have, ever can, or ever will work. And that's frustrating, because the evidence is mounting all over the place that it doesn't work, and probably won't for much longer.
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Idealism is fine, and perfectly normal in the young. Live your life by ideals, if it makes you happy. The problem is when we try to make
other people subscribe to our ideals. I don't want social justice warriors parsing every word I speak for wrong-thought any more than I want religious fundamentalists doing the same. If sharing this world with people who hold different beliefs from you (and I don't mean
you, MattyC) is so distressing, then you're going to find it tough to get on in life.