@maxdancona,
Quote:There is a big difference between being persecuted because of the color of your skin... and being criticized because you are a racist asshole.
Being persecuted for the color of your skin is
not, under any circumstances in western modernized countries, socially acceptable.
Not one bit. There is no way that someone could post something openly racist on facebook and gain social support for it, if it wasn't outright banned in the first place. People who are openly racist become social pariahs. They lose friends.
What is perfectly socially acceptable however, is using incredibly subjective criteria to declare someone a "racist asshole" so that others will dog-pile and shame them.
Like I said, being a conservative in the year 2020 is like being a black person during the Jim Crow era. It's true!
One of the primary ways this occurs is that the far left thinks that we all live in a cartoon version of the real world. They believe that caricatures of people instead of actual human beings exist, and that they are the only righteous, morally superior people around to stop these clowns. Caricatures of people who are sort of like the bully who kicks sand in the skinny guy's face in the old Charles Atlas ads, or like all conservatives are somehow Biff Tannen from the Back To The Future movies.
Bullies like that don't exist in real life. Those are cartoons.
Real people are complex mixes of many different things, both good and bad. Some people on the right understand this fact of life. Most people on the left don't.
White people are the scapegoat dujour.
