@YEAH-BOY saidHuman nature remains what it always has been. You think those in power who say minorities are so much less than they need to be protected because they cannot do what everyone else can are looking at them as equals?
Weak example. Byrd was a southerner elected in '59, he was as racist as George Mcgovern. Nice try.
@moonbus saidIf you are in pain because you are centering the reasons for your pain on what you think you are entitled to at others’ expense. After all, it is all about their feelings; is that optional? Have we been training generational narcissists by keeping people enclosed in so-called safe places that shun all disagreement, as if that is evil? If this is what we are now teaching, is it any wonder that now, in our disagreements, the discussions are not on merit alone?
Pain is unavoidable; taking umbrage is optional.
They immediately turn to name-calling and anger; all we see, many times, is the contempt some hold for others. Could anything else appear if the focus is inward-only, removing the individual from the whole, and instead of shared values, we look at our personal opinions as if we are entitled?
Have we been teaching people to become so thin-skinned that rage occurs when people can be harmed, and businesses are destroyed? As a product of our culture, have we been encouraging the growth of healthy people who know how to handle disagreeable speech without rage? There will be no safe place if all disagreeable speech in someone’s eyes is now a sign of hate speech.
If the modern distress we see around us stems from our internalizing disagreement with hate, we are turning people into those who cannot see a disagreement in anything other than hate. We are ruining our ability to hear each other if all disagreement is viewed as hate speech, and we ruin our ability to view others as individually important if they do not affirm our points of view.
This goes back to the meta-narrative of living in a shared world. If now some can be called haters because one group disagrees with another, there will be no redeeming features, because what is important is a personal idea of right and wrong, not a shared right and wrong, where we are all held accountable to the same standards.
Because disagreements are inevitable among us, the ability to encounter them without rage and hate is required for a healthy culture.
@moonbus saidHitler had success with this during his rise to power, talking about the Treaty of Versailles and how it cheated the everyday German.
Ressentiment, so spelt, is the concept which fits the phenomenon you describe. A persistent feeling of having been cheated out of an entitlement, coupled with simmering rage against a falsely accused culprit. This may affect individuals, groups, or a social stratum. They feel offended, righteously offended. Something went terribly wrong in their lives and they’re mad at the world.
@KellyJay saidEspecially if you are told constantly how you have been screwed by the "left".
If you feel entitled, that can absolutely happen, no matter how right and fair it is to all others, if you are the focus of your universe, the very center of it all. If it doesn’t go the way you want it to, reality can be horrible.
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@KellyJay saidRobert Byrd was an outlier. He later took back his comments and tried to backpedal on them and he said that his time in the KKK was "the biggest mistake in my life". Maybe he had an epiphany in the later years of their life. Maybe, probably not.
He once belong to the KKK. Do you believe that, now that is an impossibility with today’s Democrats they do no evil like the rest of the human race?
@Suzianne saidOr how you have been screwed by the right, the point being lumping all the ills you feel into a group you dislike, you make yourself out to be a victim who is not responsible for your actions.
Especially if you are told constantly how you have been screwed by the "left".
It is those you dislike!
"It’s their fault, all my problems are not mine. I cannot fix my issues because it's not me, not my effort; it’s the very existence of those I dislike that is causing all my problems."
Said no one who owns their life’s success and failure by their own efforts.
@KellyJay saidStop making excuses for people who are destroying this country.
If you are in pain because you are centering the reasons for your pain on what you think you are entitled to at others’ expense. After all, it is all about their feelings; is that optional? Have we been training generational narcissists by keeping people enclosed in so-called safe places that shun all disagreement, as if that is evil? If this is what we are now teaching, ...[text shortened]... ble among us, the ability to encounter them without rage and hate is required for a healthy culture.
@KellyJay saidDo you know what irony is?
Or how you have been screwed by the right, the point being lumping all the ills you feel into a group you dislike, you make yourself out to be a victim who is not responsible for your actions.
It is those you dislike!
"It’s their fault, all my problems are not mine. I cannot fix my issues because it's not me, not my effort; it’s the very existence of those I dislike th ...[text shortened]... ing all my problems."
Said no one who owns their life’s success and failure by their own efforts.
@Suzianne saidYou are telling me that out of the south, only one individual who was a KKK member, and the hate and racism was just Senator Byrd? So, to "Kill a Mockingbird", "Mississippi Burning” had nothing to do with reality. Byrd was a public figure; Biden was his friend. You know the guy who said, "If you don't vote for me, you’re not black." And if you look at some of Biden’s old quotes, you are fooling yourself. Know too: I’m not saying it is a left issue; it is a human issue. The left and right share these faults. To try to dress up either one of them as pure as snow is to willfully hide your own side's faults as you condemn what is on the other side, while ignoring yours.
Robert Byrd was an outlier. He later took back his comments and tried to backpedal on them and he said that his time in the KKK was "the biggest mistake in my life".