They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this America: They will be met. (Applause.)
Acknowledges that America is very far from perfect but instills hope in that audience that change will happen.
My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you've bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.
Gains the trust of the audience by leveling with them.
a county prosecutor’s office considered charging library employees in a conservative Wyoming city for stocking books about sex education and containing LGBTQ themes.
"Anti-woke" conservatives harp on and on about the left taking away free speech but then hypocritically ban books containing information that doesn't suit their values (which is censorship. Books about queer and an racial topics isn't an "agenda" on our children.
ow, Florida is trying to pass a bill that critics have nicknamed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which would let parents sue schools or teachers who bring up topics related to sexual orientation and gender identity.
Just another case of politicians sticking their noses where it doesn't belong: Parents and their children's education.
a universal “justice motive” compels individuals to pursue fairness goals to rectify unfairness and—only if these routes are blocked—to engage in victim-blaming and other defensive strategies to maintain the desired belief that we live in a just world (even if we do not).
Melvin Lerner's main point in The Fair Society
“truly voluntary bargain among various (empowered) stakeholders over how the benefits and obligations in a society are to be apportioned among the members”
The biosocial contract would be made to focus on fairness and recognition of shared survival and reproductive needs in human society.
he claims that socialism is just as unfair, although in different ways, and that efforts to develop a “third way” that avoids the excesses of capitalism and socialism have been “anemic” and “unable to confront the status quo” of class-based inequality.
Capitalism tends to promote classism in society which is widely agreed to be unfair to the vast majority of people.
human nature has evolved in such a way as to create a natural revulsion to states of affairs like these.
With research showing that the wealthy live longer, humans have grown to be repulsed to this sort of hierarchy.
But if this really were a country beset by “white supremacy” and “white privilege” and “oppression” of minorities, would people from all over the world choose to live here?
America may be more progressive than plenty of other countries but that doesn't take away from its issues.
nothing seems to be good enough for a lot of my friends on the left.
Opinion: You can be appreciative of progress and still want/need more change in society.
It’s a crisis that will end life as we know it if we don’t do something in the next 10 minutes.
This is lacking any sort of nuance or detail. Climate change is not going to end all life instantly if we don't do something in the next 10 minutes. The true sentiment is that, if do not do something soon, climate change will continue to inflict irreparable damage on our planet, sometimes leading to the extinction of more species. Nothing is truly happening instantly and most do not think so either, the author is exaggerating.
they’re people who make cold-blooded political calculations so they can accept a “staggering” level of death “to advance their political agenda.”
It's not so much as "cold-blooded calculations" as it is carelessness.
Democrats control the House, the Senate, the White House — and, for crying out loud, they control American culture.
The house is, as of January 3rd, 2023, lead by the Republican Party, although the Senate is still controlled by the Democrats.
No matter how much progress we make, for elites on the left, the glass always seems to be half empty.
The author believes that the left, who seem to be disappointed in the current state of the United States, are very pessimistic and possibly exaggerating about how poorly the United States is doing versus other countries. I don't really agree with the author because it's a very conservative and biased view on America and how liberals typically perceive it. The whole purpose of being liberal or a progressive is constantly pushing for change. And America is doing very poorly in its treatment of marginalized communities such as the POC, queer, and trans communities.
You’re on shaky ground when you make generalizations, but that doesn’t mean the generalization isn’t true. In , very it’s the opposite. That’s how it became a generalization in the first place.
Although generalizations are generalizations, there's typically some truth to them. (ex. republicans are transphobic)
Our value system is under threat by these people who want to [de-]monetize or de-platform us because we have unpopular opinions."
Similarly to what I was saying earlier about political correctness, many conservatives believe that the practice of "cancelling" people is a threat to free speech.
The idea of being "politically correct," having the most morally upstanding opinion on complicated subjects and the least offensive language with which to articulate it, gained popularity in the 1990s before people on the outside weaponized it against the community it came from
Political correctness can be used to garner "social brownie points" in order to be more liked in a community. Many conservatives claim that "PC culture" is sanitizing language and is a threat to free speech as well.
A majority opposed the use of gender-neutral pronouns; the margin was 61 percent to 36 percent. Respondents opposed the use of a choice other than “man” or “woman” on government documents by the same margin.
It's gonna take time for non-binary and gender nonconforming people to be respected in society and legally recognized nation-wide.
Half of those surveyed were asked if they favored teaching about “the ongoing effects of slavery and racism in the United States,” and 72 percent said yes, including large majorities of Democrats and independents as well as nearly half of Republicans.
So very very few people were actually asking for DeSantis's bans on AP African American Studies in Florida's schools.
Several speakers at last weekend’s Conservative Political Action Conference denounced what they see as “woke” policies, including moves to support transgender people.
i.e. Daily Wire social commentator, Michael Knowles, stating, “For the good of society … transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely — the whole preposterous ideology, at every level.” (you can't get rid of us, buddy. Sorry!)
DeSantis signed the Stop WOKE Act into law last year; it “essentially prohibits instruction on race relations or diversity that imply a person’s status as either privileged or oppressed is necessarily determined by his or her race, color, national origin, or sex,”
Banning Critical Race Theory in Florida classrooms :o
They see being woke as undermining conservative values and making white people feel guilty.
Extremely defensive stance to take.
“But for a key segment of Republicans who make up the Trump-DeSantis base, ‘woke’ is a clear trigger for the worst of the politically correct, emerging multicultural majority.”
WE NEED TO STOP THE EVIL WOKE AGENDA BLEHHHHHHHHH >:(
Overall, 40 percent considered it an insult, 32 percent a compliment. Sixty percent of Republicans and 42 percent of independents thought it was an insult. In contrast, 46 percent of Democrats deemed it a compliment. Younger respondents were more likely than older ones to see it as a compliment.
It seems things are pretty evenly split on this poll but it's evident that younger democrats or independents tend to see "woke" as a compliment.
Thirty-nine percent opted for the negative definition, “to be overly politically correct and police others’ words.” Fifty-six percent of Republicans chose that.
Only about 56% of Republicans are actually "anti-woke" and it's mostly older people in their middle ages and above.
Therefore, because his identity group is racist, he is racist.
I have no doubt that some people on the extreme left believe this and I agree to an extent. I feel like, just like generational trauma of historically marginalized groups, white people have racial biases that are passed down to them and developed as they grow up. This may not necessarily mean that all white people are racist, but all white people have racial biases whether they know it or not and it's technically their own responsibility to unpack that.
As a result, what we see happening with colleges, government bureaucracies, and even human resources departments is that individuals are treated either well or poorly depending upon the identity group with which the individual is most associated.
Prejudice within institutions has existed since the dawn of time :\
Social Justice Warriors might determine that one identity group created a government and that it is, therefore, guilty of establishing a system that gives the group power over other identity groups.
i.e. White people have historically oppressed many other groups of people and set systems up in society full of unfair biases that are still extremely active today. A lot of "SJWs" believe that it is an innate responsibility of descendants of historic oppressors to help work to dismantle these systems for the good of society as a whole.
cloaked demand for Equality and the grave dangers inherent in the application of Social Justice as presented so far.
Cloaked demand for equality? I thought that was meant to be clear, activists strive for equity for all groups, especially marginalized groups. And what "grave dangers" do they mean? Non-peaceful protesting and/or excessively policing and shaming the words and actions of other?
if one distills the main thrust of Social Justice, one comes to understand that it is the belief that a just society cannot exist until all identity groups have parity with the others.
The simplest and most pure belief of social justice is that society cannot be just until the treatment of all of its members is equitable.