Hygro
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It's really gotten that simple.
Modern day conservatism boils down to the denial of oppression
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Terxpahseyton
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mkay?
Quackers
The Frog
much deep mang
If you can look at a problem and think "That could never affect me". That's privilege.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
What if it really can't affect you? I mean, what if you see an earthquake happening in Japan, but you're living in an area which has never been affected by earthquakes for the last centuries? You can't say "Well, this earthquake clearly shows that the same would happen here, any time soon".
Well, odds are your government has placed barriers preventing people from moving to the earthquake-free zone you live in. Your freedom from earthquakes is an accident of your birth.
I remember the contempt, post-Katrina. Shades of 'serves 'em right for not moving'.
The privilege kicks in as a bad thing is if you are the least bit tempted to care less because of the benefits you get, for free.
Hygro
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It's why all the hipster conservatives aren't doin' it rite. It was cool to be a hipster conservative in 1970, and continued to be until they all took power and showed us maybe kleptocracy wasn't actually an expression of Utopia. The modern day hipster conservative falsely equates unequal things to prove contradiction.
This untruth, of a lack of a oppression, was more compelling when we still had real economic freedom post WW2. Now we know better.
This untruth, of a lack of a oppression, was more compelling when we still had real economic freedom post WW2. Now we know better.
kochman
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You know I can't let that stand without your elaboration/opinion fleshing it out...
It's way too vague.
warpus
In pork I trust
Yet so many conservatives are poor and in a sense oppressed by those with money. How do you explain that?
Loppan Torkel
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What about acceptance of oppression? Maybe that's what they're about.
MacAttack
Just the tip
Although I bet he felt satisfied the moment he clicked submit.
Narz
keeping it real
It's not really that simple of course but almost. The conservative mind is very simple & their fairytale notion that life is fair (you work hard you get rewarded, anyone who claims otherwise is lazy or lying) is a large part of their worldview. But by being so vague you're being as lazy & ignorant as them.
brennan
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They look at the anecdotes they are fed on and aspire to succeed. It doesn't seem to get through to them that they mostly fail to succeed and social mobility is going downhill.
Terxpahseyton
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Even if they did, I am weary of this whole paradigm. To me all mainstream politics is conservative.
Timsup2nothin
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Denial of oppression is not the exclusive territory of those who benefit from it. The oppressed have as much or even more reason to deny that it is happening. For the oppressor to admit it exists is to admit to their own lack of conscience. For the oppressed to admit it is happening brings them face to face with their own powerlessness. I assert that people will much more readily accept that they lack conscience than that they lack power.
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You're forgetting the invention of oppression against themselves.
gay_Aleks
from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free!
Help, I'm being conserved!
By the successful hijacking of conservatism with social wedge issues that resonate with certain demographics.
