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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
It's odd to hear you fret about this slippery slope but not about the one where the GOP is disinterested in doing anything at all about racism, since that's the side of the hill we seem to be sliding down.
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I think it's quite fair to say that if you chose to vote for conservatives, you are saying you value other things above addressing racism. This is a different thing than saying if you vote conservative you are racist.
If you vote conservative you are probably also saying you value other things above the environment. This does not make you a polluter. The same can be said for sex issues. If you vote conservative, you value other things above workplace compensation parity. This does not make you a misogynist.
If you vote progressive, you value other things above the interests of nascent life (fertilized eggs through fetuses below the age of viability outside the womb). This does not make you "pro-abortion" (or as pro-lifers might say, in favor of killing the unborn). If you vote progressive, you value other things above our defense budget. This does not make you a pacifist.
You get the point. Using extreme terms (I fully recognize the irony in my writing this) warps the debate in such a way that compromise is impossible. Klein and French touch on this lightly in that interview I cited in an earlier post.
