Re:Orthodox Privilege
by debacle on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:34AM
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It seems like every progressive group is slowly forced to adopt the platform of every other progressive group until they are effectively politically sterilized.
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That reminds me of Taleb’s essay “ The Dictatorship of the Small Minority”.
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
It’s an easy mistake to make. Progressive groups need be be better at saying “that’s a nice campaign, but it’s not my campaign. Good luck with that.”
It makes fruitful discussion hard. I support socialized healthcare, but for me it's down as the 5th or 6th greatest problem facing the US medical system today, and I think implementing only socialized healthcare without fixing these other problems would create a system destined for failure.
To many people, that means I don't support socialized healthcare.
> To many people, that means I don't support socialized healthcare.
Well, in a way, you don't. Because you apparently think socialized healthcare should not be an agenda priority in the short term, and what's the purpose of political activism if not agenda setting? Many other people who "don't support socialized healthcare" at this time might well regard it as worthwhile, if the other blatant issues w/ the healthcare system were addressed first.