Worried about riots? You’re unreasonable.
You said yourself it’s nothing but Fox news scaremongering, and the media exaggerates every incident.
Worried about immigration? You’re racist.
This hasn’t come up in this thread yet, but see this comment from another where I tried to talk about immigration:
Then I’m very skeptical that there are any motives other than racism/xenophobia or an ignorance of how immigration and economics work. What other reasons would someone oppose immigration, in the present US?
Worried about your job? You’re just looking for the easy way out and refusing to make the difficult choice.
They want the rest of us to subsidize their lives. With our taxes, our health, and our environment. They may not call it a hand out, but that is absolutely what it is.
They don’t want to do the work of finding other employment, of educating themselves or their children to do something other than drilling holes in the ground and sucking the stuff out of them.
Yes, and that’s the failure. They chose the comforting lie over the hard truth. Fantasy over reality.
I thought it might be useful to post in this thread because I have changed my mind recently. Not to the point where I’d consider voting for Trump, but I now have serious reservations about where the left is going. To some extent I’m viewing things from a different perspective to how I used to, and it makes a big difference.
How would you react to someone saying black people in inner cities don’t want to do the work of educating themselves or their children to do something better, they’re just looking for a handout? Yet it’s perfectly acceptable to say it about the oil workers? There’s a definite double standard operating, where some groups are acceptable targets for criticism, even very harsh criticism, and others are not.