Anyone seen this nonsense? It’s been all over my facebook. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, here is a quick summary:
I used to be a Republican. I saw bad things in New Orleans after Katrina and in Iraq. Now I can no longer be a Republican.
During some snippets he did sound pretty dumb to me - but by and large it was pretty good imo
Dude’s grown quite a bit, in some ways it’s going to look like he ‘shrunk’ from a certain perspective when you now disagree with him. Like cutting and bulking. Cutting - one guys gonna call you skinny and say you’ve lost muscle. When bulking the other guy is gonna call you fat. Plenty to criticize - but as far as I can tell this guy is progressing
Which brings me to your ‘quick summary’
You sound personally offended. You’ve screwed up if you identify with ignorance
Let me clarify. We are all ignorant of a great many things - that’s just a part of not being all knowing (i.e. being human). But that’s nothing even remotely similar to identifying with ignorance on a personal level and getting offended by simply his own attempt at diminishing it
That he had to seemingly transform in order to grow like that implies just how small he was before. And Republicans are not one size fits all - I must have missed where he implied that they /we are
I applaud him for educating himself and expanding his worldview, and encouraging others to do so, but the whole article seems to have this “all republicans are ignorant” overtone. The underlying message is a good one, but I think it is very much overshadowed by the delivery. I think the reader comments largely back this up. Much of the discussion degenerates into “your party is more ignorant than mine, we’re so enlightened, etc.” arguments.
Yea I didn’t read any of the comments
I can imagine
[quote]The underlying message is a good one, but I think it is very much overshadowed by the delivery.[/quote]Agreed - but that’s precisely why your ‘quick summary’ was so off.
I considered this to be the heart of his whole posting
It’s full of false dichotomy. If he doesn’t already know that then he will likely someday learn - when he’s ready for the next level.
Or maybe that day will never come - oh well. Nothing to get mad about.
I found this one linked form that page much more interesting: http://www.alternet.org/print/are-african-americans-better-4-years-ago
[quote]Tiribulus wrote:
I found this one linked form that page much more interesting: http://www.alternet.org/print/are-african-americans-better-4-years-ago
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Damn man - thanks for posting
So… THIS is where we’re at now
[quote]rcsermas wrote:
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/political-awakening-republican-i-had-viewed-whole-swaths-country-and-world-second?page=0%2C0
Anyone seen this nonsense? It’s been all over my facebook. If you don’t want to read the whole thing, here is a quick summary:
I used to be a Republican. I saw bad things in New Orleans after Katrina and in Iraq. Now I can no longer be a Republican.[/quote]
I used to be a Democrat, and then I saw some bad things happened in abortion clinics to babies and women and saw the destruction of the hook up culture, not fault divorce, and same-sex unions on my own family. Now I am a Catholic.