I’m convinced that older liberals recognize that illegal immigrants can be easily exploited for gain, so they’ve told younger liberals that the right is just racist and hate immigrants when the truth is the right supports legal immigrants and is against illegal immigration for several reasons including but not limited to the fact that they are so easily exploited for gain and also the fact that children are taken across the border illegally for sex trafficking.
It’s unfortunately a very common tactic of the left to call the right racist, sexist, homophobic, etc to put the right on defense and discredit everything they say so that they don’t have to face the flaws within leftist thinking.
If you convince everyone that your enemy is a hateful monster then nothing they have to say has to be considered because it’s all garbage right? And nothing you believe has to be reconsidered because you’re on the side of the angels.
Most leftists have good intentions but I believe they are being manipulated by people in power who will use those intentions to their own advantage by feeding them half truths and pointing them towards a wrong solution that will lead to their own gain.
Very few people on either side are pure evil and want bad things to happen. That’s a cartoon villain image that’s way too easy to get in your head about people you disagree with and you can end up seeing them like caricatures instead of real people.
Almost everyone simply wants things to be better for us all, we just have different ideas on how to achieve that.
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from my experiences, progressives are cool with religion so long as religious people never mention or show outward signs of their religion. ever.
Honestly, I think the reason we leftists sometimes can’t understand why people dislike us is because of how we don’t judge ourselves with the same scales as we use to judge those on the right.
Like if a conservative says “I believe in law and order” we’re gonna assume he’s a racist and doesn’t take police brutality seriously–even though he never mentioned those subjects. We’re basically holding him responsible for saying things we know that he never actually said.
But if a leftist says something like “I hate white people” or “I wish all men would die” then we’re eager to find excuses for why it’s not actually that bad, instead of explaining that comments like that are a bit unsuitable, even when said jokingly.
If we’re gonna hold conservatives responsible for statements that, in and of themselves, aren’t even bad to begin with, then maybe we could at least try to think of what we say? Instead of getting upset that people listen to us and take us seriously?
THANK YOU!!!! This is a good lesson for both sides to remember.
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