Originally posted by long pig
My question to liberals:Why do you tolerate and enable Progressive fascism in your party? Their beliefs are completely opposed to your own. By Progressives I'm talking about the SJW, racial identity folks and the politically correct.
They don't support free speech, freedom of expression etc. They aren't for equality, an example of this is affirmative action. They tend to marginalize.
Because it's not the boogieman you've made up in your head.
Affirmative action is about equalizing *opportunity* to groups who start out with it massively disadvantaged- easily, testably, markably proven. Black non-convicts get hired at the same rate as white convictes with literally the same resumes, and about 1/3rd less than white non-convicts.
'Politically correct' is normally a word that translates as 'they're calling me on acting like a jerk and not treating them with respect! make them stop!' in practice, and is used to try and shut down way more conversations than, "hey, could you not throw around slurs?" is.
And freedom of expression? It's really funny when you hear, "People are oppression me by stopping me from interfering from other's freedom!" type stuff. "Gay stuff shouldn't be mentioned in X!" is incredibly common, and yet "people are telling me that I shouldn't say gay stuff shouldn't be mentioned in X!" is treated like oppression.
Most of the time, it's not actually opposing free speech or expression at all.
It's this:
Your so-called 'liberal facism' complaints are, in truth, mostly about people whining "Liberals are allowed to say this stuff, and when I say bad stuff about them, they tell me to stop! That's not fair, only I should be able to say what I want! Fascism!".
And really, who cares about your whining?