• Strangle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I guess considering the last part out of line depends on what your (or my) understanding of the progressive way of thinking and what it’s based on and what it’s goals are.

    They’ve done a great job marketing it as ‘just be a nice person’ but that’s not at all what it really is.

    I’m sure there are hundreds of millions of well-meaning progressives who believe that. And I’m not trying to insult them.

    But people get sold on one thing and end up getting something entirely different all of the time. It’s sad, but that’s the way things are, unfortunately.

    I’m not saying the opposite of progressivism is the answer here either, what I would advocate is common sense.

    If you need a PhD and peer reviewed sociology papers to try to convince someone that something as egregious as race-based college admissions is a good thing, you’re pretty obviously the baddie and common sense should tell us that you’re trying to convince us of something for a different reason.