What I love about that mindset is that nobody is actually that way. We are all irrational to a certain degree.
When I was an earnest liberal - I once had a protracted discussion with a redditor in r/libertarianism. At the time I assumed everybody in that sub was a libertarian but of course that wasn't true. We were talking past either other but doing so in good faith. He (I assume he was a guy) must have had the same thought as me - Why can't he understand my point of view?
I finally said to him something like - imagine you are a black woman in Alabama. It's 1930 so Jim Crow is in full effect. You're pregnant and actually giving birth. Your coworkers brought you to the white hospital because nobody had a car and the black hospital is 10 miles away. But the white hospital doesn't even let any of you through the door. So you give birth next to a building on the grounds of the hospital. I went on for a while more but you get the idea.
I don't think he was a racist but I do think he was insane. He kept telling me stuff like "market forces" would force the hospital to change. I reminded him that 1930 was an arbitrary year during Jim Crow and for another ~30 years the same thing would have happened. The hospital continues to be racist and people continue to suffer and die because of it. "Market forces" never will do anything in a racist society. Jim Crow was finally forced to begin to end due to the federal law of the Civil Rights Act. Of course - he made excuses how thing would have changed "eventually". I was already tired out so I decided to just drop a discussion of the benefits of the federal government.
That conversation happened a long time ago. I think about 10 years ago. I wonder what happened to that guy. I changed for the better. Did he change? And if so - for the better or for the worse? Trump's stranglehold on the GOP has made 10,000,000s of people proud to be awful and repulsive. Did he jump on the Trump train?
What I love about that mindset is that nobody is actually that way. We are all irrational to a certain degree.
When I was an earnest liberal - I once had a protracted discussion with a redditor in r/libertarianism. At the time I assumed everybody in that sub was a libertarian but of course that wasn't true. We were talking past either other but doing so in good faith. He (I assume he was a guy) must have had the same thought as me - Why can't he understand my point of view?
I finally said to him something like - imagine you are a black woman in Alabama. It's 1930 so Jim Crow is in full effect. You're pregnant and actually giving birth. Your coworkers brought you to the white hospital because nobody had a car and the black hospital is 10 miles away. But the white hospital doesn't even let any of you through the door. So you give birth next to a building on the grounds of the hospital. I went on for a while more but you get the idea.
I don't think he was a racist but I do think he was insane. He kept telling me stuff like "market forces" would force the hospital to change. I reminded him that 1930 was an arbitrary year during Jim Crow and for another ~30 years the same thing would have happened. The hospital continues to be racist and people continue to suffer and die because of it. "Market forces" never will do anything in a racist society. Jim Crow was finally forced to begin to end due to the federal law of the Civil Rights Act. Of course - he made excuses how thing would have changed "eventually". I was already tired out so I decided to just drop a discussion of the benefits of the federal government.
That conversation happened a long time ago. I think about 10 years ago. I wonder what happened to that guy. I changed for the better. Did he change? And if so - for the better or for the worse? Trump's stranglehold on the GOP has made 10,000,000s of people proud to be awful and repulsive. Did he jump on the Trump train?