• sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Is there a name for that lib-tendency to disregard simple actual things and needlessly cerebralize it to some "higher-level" indirect effect so that it loses meaning to anybody but the most milquetoast bookworm?

    "fake news is bad--not because people believe it, but because it erodes the trust in democratic institutions"

    "racism is a problem--we solved racism in the 1960s, it's not that people are racist, it's because the racism has become institutionalized"

    "The republicans aren't banning black people from voting, they're disenfranchising urban communities"

    • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Liberals are the only ones trying to constantly legitimize institutions. They are institutionalists at the their core which is why reform rather than abolition (revolution?) is the only path they want to take. I feel like for Americans, it tends to go that that liberal institutions are established by liberals then the pendulum swings the other way and they are de-legitimized by right wingers. They later lose power to liberals who attempt to re-legitimize those same but weaker institutions. Nothing really changes because nothing is supposed to change.