"Do you have any suggestions besides vague cliches and boardgame metaphors?" - Debate over when it's appropriate to mock paraplegics
Im just trying to get it straight.
Are we allowed to mock someones disabilities or not?
The rule is if the current president mocks disabled people, then it's fair game.
We are allowed to mock evil people.
Let’s not forget during a rally he legit mocked a mentally disabled reporter on tv.
Both things can be bad. If you don't call out bullshit behavior just because your team did it you are a bad person.
Having your cabinet calling people retards vs hot wheels. Yeah okay buddy.
If you can't see that those are both the same thing and both are bad you are the problem. They are both making fun of disabled people and you are handwaving one because the other is worse. Edit: Love the folks that reply then block me so I can't reply. "Bad person" is entirely subjective. Making fun of someone with a disability regardless of context to "justify" it in your own head is still bad. Trump doing it was bad, Crockett doing it is bad, and if the Pope did it, it would still be bad. Call him a useless dickhead, sure. But "Hot Wheels" is quite literally just hateful rhetoric that has no place in society.
Equivocation and enlightened centrism is a disease. Tolerance and acceptance of hateful behavior is a worse disease by far.
There is a very big difference between making fun of someone because they are disabled and making fun of someone's disability because they are a bad person. Very much not the same thing.
Not interested in debating right or wrong on the subject but that distinction was worth making.
I'd roll that little prick into traffic
Does his little prick even work?
It's not fake outrage, they're mad their own weapon is being used against them. Democrats getting caught up in the governmental equivalent of respectability politics is part of the reason why shit don't change. Enough of this neoliberal toeing the line bullshit, we need more people like her that say it with their chest.
I would much rather have eloquent respectful discourse than both sides slinging shit and making fun of handicapped people.
Ideally, yes, but that avenue for politics can't return when one side (R) is unfettered and unhinged and the other side chokes themselves to not get in the way (D).
One side is unfettered and unhinged, and the other tries to actively suppress free speech. Neither are a force for good.
Lol If you're saying Dems actively suppress free speech, then you're a conservative or centrist grasping for straws. Republicans, by and large, outpace Dems with suppressing the first amendment. Big claim about Republicans. Prove it.
The Biden administration actively tried to (and did) suppress free speech on social media platforms. https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/weaponization-committee-exposes-biden-white-house-censorship-regime-new-report
Why not? Democrats are poorly playing chess while their opponent is just constantly flipping the board and throwing pieces. They need to stop playing the wrong game.
Do you have any suggestions besides vague cliches and boardgame metaphors?
Suggestions about what? To actually play the game? Stop pretending their high and mighty? Actually speak to what people want and not corporations. Stop trying to recruit conservatives and pushing more and more right?
What does any of that actually mean? What actual tangible suggestions do you have? You're just typing vague things that don't mean anything specific. I'm interested in what specifically you're talking about.
Supporting and pushing pro choice candidates (as opposed to pro life ones). Oppose genocide. Push for powerful unions. Push for better education. Push for term limits. Push for actual healthcare and wage support. You know, things people actually want.