Quote Originally Posted by catherine View Post
I LOVE Portlandia! if this weren't so serious, I'd die for a Fred/Carrie spoof.

The thing that bothers me most about the violent/negative reaction to the protests is it completely negates the underlying issue!! It's like going to the doctor with cancer and the doctors bemoaning the outrageous use of bandages that curing it will involve. It makes me realize that most people will do anything to not upset their comfy status quo, including completely ignoring real social issues, which, if they were walking in the shoes of the oppressed, they'd surely sing a different tune.

God forbid we break a couple eggs to improve life for 15% of our population. Can't we stop the FEDS v ANARCHIST argument of the week and look deeply into the injustices of the century?
entirely theoretical: my perception as a decidedly priveleged person is that ya’ll will NEVER be happy with real or perceived or varying or imagined or whatever measure to address “injustice.”

of course you are minimizing the whole business of equalizing outcome for all by saying “break a couple eggs. “


We already broke a few eggs to put in to place the ACA. That was a piece of legislation that affected a large part of the population, a veey large number, who diD not benefit. About 15% of those who were not insured back in 2013 are now insured. To you that’s probably worth it. To me I think it’s a bad Move even though I Personally benefited from it, a privileged persoN. The ACA is a good example of a giant piece of legislation that is far reaching and can be debated on so many levels because there’s so much detail and It affects such a big part of the population in both anticipated consequences and in Unanticipated consequences.