07-07-2017, 11:22 AM
(07-07-2017, 10:06 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: Well, the issue is that they have to do stuff like this to make up for the neoliberalism they are embracing. Because it is very economically conservative compared to the liberals of the first half of the twentieth century, they feel like they need to make up for it with this kind of stuff. I mean, I get their argument, but how many blind actors are there in the industry with the talent for a role like that? This isn't like when we give a white person a spray tan to play an Asian or something.
I get what you're saying but I don't think it's even that well thought out. I think it's the logical extension of the gains that have been made socially in the past ten or so years. We've seen rapid social change, initially for the better. However, the eventual lack of push back has led to more extreme behavior as it inevitably does. Saying someone isn't born with a sex is the height of absurdity, the fact that the idea is entertained by more than the radical fringe shows just how extreme many on the left have become. People patrolling Evergreen college with baseball bats to enforce their SJW agenda is another extreme example. The ironic thing is that this behavior is self destructive in the extreme, it turns off 100 people for every one it recruits, myself included. I would, and did, proudly identify with the progressive agenda on social issues until rather recently. Now I'd rather drink bleach than do so.
The ultimate expression of the upshot of this inane behavior can be seen in who was elected president.
