@BretWeinstein Looking at it this way only further perpetuates the problem of partisan mindsets because you assume that there's a cure. There's no cure, it's the management of the partisan mindset and using CBT skills to alleviate them that will help.
When one emphasizes that the people who are endangered by new discourse rules and punishment for thought crimes are **not** famous writers and literary figures (who are all going to be fine), but rather ordinary and powerless workers, this is what is meant:
Noam Chomsky says the upcoming U.S. election is the most important in history. "Four more years of Trump's climate and nuclear policies might simply doom the human species," he says. "We don’t have a lot of time to deal with the environmental crisis. It is very serious."
Last word on this: leftists should be the first ones to oppose making it acceptable to fire someone for political donations. People on the left were persecuted for decades for private political beliefs. The endgame is a society where people lie and hide their beliefs.
This is the kind of systemic racism that keeps me on the Left & of the belief that White America knows it‘s guilty of looking the other way.
I may disagree on the claimed scoping, aims & methods of the Woke but we had a common starting point. Selective prosecution is real evil.
We are in the worst economic condition since the Great Depression. People are worried about getting evicted from their homes. People can't go to the doctor because they lost their jobs and no longer have any health insurance.
Now is the time for Congress to act boldly.
Democrats: Trump is a fascist, racist madman & unprecedented threat to democracy.
Democrats: Every 6 months or so, we’re going to authorize massive amounts of military spending and surveillance powers for Trump to use (and even prevent him from withdrawing the troops he wants).
How will we deal with the views we dislike when we never confront them with rational argument? By not providing a platform to views we don’t like, we give more attention to them without ever challenging them with logic and reason.