Yet the public had no clue about the liberal icon’s even more inflammatory words. The protests, she argued, demonstrated “contempt for a government that has made it possible for their parents and grandparents to live a decent life … Which they probably could not have lived in the places they came from … as they became older they realize that this was youthful folly. And that’s why education is important.”
I don't know, that's a boilerplate liberal line of thought. "You just hate liberal government because you're naive and uneducated sweety"
It is really funny and and admittedly somewhat surprising to me that someone as long steeped in this schlock as Couric was stunned that RBG, who was older than dinosaur fossils, who was besties with Scalia, was actually a racist dickhead and NOT the 'promoter of equality and justice'. I wonder if it was genuine surprise on her account, or if the 'surprise' was just a means of trying to deflect liberal ire herself.
Related to the thread title, I also remember RBG defending that she was friends with Scalia, saying something to the effect of 'we can put politics aside and acknowledge that we are both trying to better the country', and liberals ate it up because they believe that. So many of them don't believe that your politics are a core part of who you are, they just think it means you vote one way or the other every few years. Which I suppose makes sense if you have to defend voting for people like Joe Biden, you probably don't want to believe that's who you are.
So many of them don't believe that your politics are a core part of who you are, they just think it means you vote one way or the other every few years.
For many Americans, politics are just an aesthetic choice. There are no real stakes. A lot of people never really interrogate their politics, either.
This is true. I bashed on liberals in particular because they so frequently have an obnoxiously haughty stance, while simultaneously endorsing the politics of some of the most vile people on the planet.
I didn't know about this one either
I don't know, that's a boilerplate liberal line of thought. "You just hate liberal government because you're naive and uneducated sweety"![smuglord smuglord](https://hexbear.net/pictrs/image/97a4a756-428f-4517-846a-1c810805ad28.png)
It is really funny and and admittedly somewhat surprising to me that someone as long steeped in this schlock as Couric was stunned that RBG, who was older than dinosaur fossils, who was besties with Scalia, was actually a racist dickhead and NOT the 'promoter of equality and justice'. I wonder if it was genuine surprise on her account, or if the 'surprise' was just a means of trying to deflect liberal ire herself.
Related to the thread title, I also remember RBG defending that she was friends with Scalia, saying something to the effect of 'we can put politics aside and acknowledge that we are both trying to better the country', and liberals ate it up because they believe that. So many of them don't believe that your politics are a core part of who you are, they just think it means you vote one way or the other every few years. Which I suppose makes sense if you have to defend voting for people like Joe Biden, you probably don't want to believe that's who you are.
For many Americans, politics are just an aesthetic choice. There are no real stakes. A lot of people never really interrogate their politics, either.
This is true. I bashed on liberals in particular because they so frequently have an obnoxiously haughty stance, while simultaneously endorsing the politics of some of the most vile people on the planet.