You can be progressive and not have any compassion left for ignorance. Don’t confuse policy positions with being a doormat for those who equate beliefs and opinions with facts (which is troubling frequent in a post truth world).
My apologies to Meta, “data wins arguments.” All of this loss (r/HCA) was mostly avoidable (based on all available information) with a free vaccine, and the subreddit raised over $56k [1] for vaccine donations to those who were not so lucky to have it freely available.
(Posted while waiting for my child’s COVID vaccination to be administered)
Progressive doesn't mean compassion. It did once for a period but society has progressed into something else. Progressive now means welding power over those views you wish to change for the greater good. Progressive became regressive.
Right. If you give society both middle fingers while headed off a cliff at speed as the crowd shouts to you to stop, not much sympathy when you’ve run out of runway. We use your experience to encourage better outcomes for those still with us who can make better choices.
99.9% of people < 40 years who choose not to get the vaccine will survive and apparently be right (by the apparent metric of not dying set forth by HCA), so all this pissing on dead people accomplishes what to those people who will ultimately see themselves as correctly forgoing the vaccine? Who exactly should be ostracized here, me or the fuckhead shitting on dead people?
Put another way, do the Razzies prevent shitty movies from being made? No! Nic Cage will always be around to make shitty movies and god love him for it, I know I do.
The posts discussed are public. Why couldn’t we discuss public statements, including criticising them? Each story is a lesson, and the subreddit also has good stories of people who got vaccinated or got their loved ones vaccinated after having seen some of these horror stories. They also have a strong redaction policy, and do not encourage stalking, trolling, or harassment.
The Guardian is also running some stories about how some peoples were led to distrust vaccines and paid it with their lives. This is important. We need to expose mistakes if we want to avoid repeating them.
there's no way to measure the number of people who have been further entrenched by YET ANOTHER PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT where the tribal actions of those belonging are geared towards social climbing within the cloister as opposed to outreach to those who don't already agree with them.
Increasingly, the modern left seems hellbent on demeaning "those people" on any number of topics, from culture war, environmentalism, COVID. They can't meet people half way in the hopes that some, in turn, will open their ears to what they have to say. Instead the entire movement - from BLM, to the pro-vax crowd, the pro-trans movement, the climate change movement, is merely to sneer down anyone who even slightly disagrees with them, including fellow leftists who might be slightly out of lock-step.
This is not a political movement that can grow in any meaningful way. It means to humiliate, dominate and reign it's superiority over others. And for now - they have the power of the media, hollywood, academia, most HR departments and such on their side that helps them feel comfortable in this ... lack of a political strategy.
But when their goals and the goals of corporate america don't align, just watch how this "strategy" will work out for them.
YOu have to actually treat people... like people, even though you disagree, to build your movement.
That's the hard work of politics.
The left is insulated by a corporate system who's tricked them into thinking their goals are aligned. They're not.
There is a deep partisan divide at this time in our country. Are there really that many people in the middle, the undecided voter, who were going to vote for Trump but changed their mind and voted for Biden because people online were nice to them? I have a hard time imagining this.
I agree that the level of discourse is at an all time low, but I disagree with a lot of what you're saying because it paints with a super broad brush and also treats base insults and sneering as though they're the sole domain of the "modern left". It is a mistake to confuse the loudmouths on Twitter (where I presume you're seeing the majority of the chest puffing and punching down) with the actual humans behind the movements you mention.
A diminishing fraction, because "hesitant" is rapidly becoming indistinguishable from "never".
Whatever they were waiting for, it has either come or will never come. For a while they claimed to be waiting on non-emergency approval, and that happened months ago. More and more data comes in; it's not like they're waiting for LHC-style five-sigmas.
Eventually, people say, "You're not 'hesitant', you're anti-vax, and you get treated as anti-vax". They can't hang on to a permanent "Well, I'm still thinking about saving my own life, but since you were mean to me I won't."
My apologies to Meta, “data wins arguments.” All of this loss (r/HCA) was mostly avoidable (based on all available information) with a free vaccine, and the subreddit raised over $56k [1] for vaccine donations to those who were not so lucky to have it freely available.
(Posted while waiting for my child’s COVID vaccination to be administered)
[1] https://gogiveone.org/coalition/