And one only says that if one believes that transgender people don't deserve the same level of basic rights and liberties that cisgender people are entitled to -- which is to say, they are not fully human.
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I think that's overstated. I think liberalism is just very wary of using that metaphysical concept precisely because of the way it is abused by the right. Too wary, given the nature and power of its main enemy at present.
Somewhere in the MAGA mines I suspect there are people who genuinely see social Darwinism as pragmatic and worthwhile for humans (as animals) rather than evil.
I think they are increasingly honest and transparent about their neo-eugenics directed at trans people and people with autism. People with depression, anxiety, and obesity are next.
You're describing something Liberals can't be. Liberals, definitionally, are a center-right party. By and large, I've seen them throw anyone and everyone else under the bus- not individuals, but larger party organizations.
One of their main talking points in the post election time is that Gazans don't deserve to be saved, and that anyone asking them to help- or not sell further weapons to their killers is or was a Russian plant without morals or scruples.
What you're coming to terms with is that many Liberals aren't all that far from MAGA, they just wear a different colored sports jersey and have different shibboleths.
Empathy is required no matter who it is, or you aren't distinguishing yourself by actions, only in your definitions of who does and does not deserve humanity.
Right. And I don't want to say that all of Trump's supporters are evil people. I rather want to say that Trumpism as a socio-political movement is evil, and that Trump supporters are consenting to it.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot. In the secular/humanist/liberal world view, errors are due to ignorance — not to some inherent flaw or some metaphysical influence. Everyone is redeemable, no matter how bad their past actions were. But this frame cannot accommodate what we’re experiencing now.
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Liberals need to accept that the problem with Trumpism is not that it's stupid, but that it is evil.