Microblog Memes

I must make two honest confessions to you, my Christian and Jewish brothers. First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: "I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action"; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a "more convenient season."

-MLK

Seems like a great use of your time

You wrote a lengthy rant because a meme hurt your feelings. I don’t think you should be lecturing anyone about using their time productively.

Several of my family members are very right wing, and they've pretty much all made it clear that they think anyone who doesn't work exactly as hard or harder than they do deserves to be put out in the streets.

I love everyone in my family but it's pretty difficult to rationalize that way of thinking. This is why we don't discuss politics at family gatherings lol

But this view of the world is objectively incorrect at basically any scale observable, so why engage with it?

Moreover, if you zoom in, even conservatives appreciate charity within their own community as a positive trait, and see selfishness or callous indifference within their community as a negative trait. If you can have empathy for a starving child who attends your church, but not for one who attends a different church, all that means is that you have a very narrow view of where your community ends.

Most reasonable people see this as the former case - selfishness and callous indifference, leading them to conclude that the boundaries being drawn around the conservative community are, in fact, based on prejudice, and not any kind of internally consistently morality.