Like a pendulum individual rights have a way of swinging a little too far in one direction or the other. It's a reference to a 1969 police drama but, somehow it seems appropriate here.
In regard to what you said about your social group and standing influencing the individual rights supposedly guaranteed to all of us. Sometimes it can be towards one's benefit or against it. The analogy of the swinging pendulum means that balance is sometimes lost.
As humans, we want better for ourselves. If we feel oppressed we toil to climb out of that oppression. In the eyes of Progressives, we then become the Oppressors, because that is the only other option. I'm beginning to see why the Democrat Party is dying.
Not so much dying as in major internal conflict. The socialists are battling with the old guard (as in literally old), and the young seem determined to not give an inch.
The only thing they have going for them is Trump chaos... which may settle down in 6 months or a year.
I've saved some of your posts so I can refer to them when I need to be more eloquent than I am capable of (with due attribution to the author, or course). This post just joined that elite group.
There is thick social-issue politics, including that of race and gender-bending, within the neoliberal mainstream media. In particular, when it comes to victimization, there are injustices that the said news-media seem to consider, cover or ignore as though those injustices are increasingly ideologically, socially and therefore politically acceptable.
The Western media (news, social and entertainment) can be mostly credited for the creation and maintenance of current racial, sexual and gender social/political standards and even hypocrisies.
For example, anti-Caucasian racism or violence can be expected to not receive coverage by that neo-liberal mainstream news-media, in particular The New York Times and Washington Post, quite unlike when the victim is non-Caucasian. Their justification? Perhaps because they’ve deemed such occurrences as not being a social/societal problem and therefore news that’s un-fit to print.
According to my journalism instructor approximately three decades ago, the probable rarity of such an assault (in this case, anti-Caucasian racism or violence) would largely make it newsworthy; and the opposite would apply to the common or usual occurrence, such as that resulting from a recurring social/societal problem.
Such reporters/editors appear to feel they can be both truly objective/professional AND journalistically activistic. But they cannot.
A good reminder of how you convinced me I’m a libertarian 😁👍
Well-stated commonsense…as usual!
Like a pendulum individual rights have a way of swinging a little too far in one direction or the other. It's a reference to a 1969 police drama but, somehow it seems appropriate here.
Not sure what you mean by "too far" here.
In regard to what you said about your social group and standing influencing the individual rights supposedly guaranteed to all of us. Sometimes it can be towards one's benefit or against it. The analogy of the swinging pendulum means that balance is sometimes lost.
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
As humans, we want better for ourselves. If we feel oppressed we toil to climb out of that oppression. In the eyes of Progressives, we then become the Oppressors, because that is the only other option. I'm beginning to see why the Democrat Party is dying.
Not so much dying as in major internal conflict. The socialists are battling with the old guard (as in literally old), and the young seem determined to not give an inch.
The only thing they have going for them is Trump chaos... which may settle down in 6 months or a year.
I agree with everything except...Kyle Rittenhouse? That stupid kid who should have just stayed home and watched the riots on TV.
Should have, but that doesn't change the fact that his prosecution was selective and political in nature.
I've saved some of your posts so I can refer to them when I need to be more eloquent than I am capable of (with due attribution to the author, or course). This post just joined that elite group.
There is thick social-issue politics, including that of race and gender-bending, within the neoliberal mainstream media. In particular, when it comes to victimization, there are injustices that the said news-media seem to consider, cover or ignore as though those injustices are increasingly ideologically, socially and therefore politically acceptable.
The Western media (news, social and entertainment) can be mostly credited for the creation and maintenance of current racial, sexual and gender social/political standards and even hypocrisies.
For example, anti-Caucasian racism or violence can be expected to not receive coverage by that neo-liberal mainstream news-media, in particular The New York Times and Washington Post, quite unlike when the victim is non-Caucasian. Their justification? Perhaps because they’ve deemed such occurrences as not being a social/societal problem and therefore news that’s un-fit to print.
According to my journalism instructor approximately three decades ago, the probable rarity of such an assault (in this case, anti-Caucasian racism or violence) would largely make it newsworthy; and the opposite would apply to the common or usual occurrence, such as that resulting from a recurring social/societal problem.
Such reporters/editors appear to feel they can be both truly objective/professional AND journalistically activistic. But they cannot.