I never said people should be forced to do anything, but if they refuse to do the bare minimum to educate themselves then they have earned my contempt. There is no measurable harm in not being interested in sports; I would argue that the harmful consequences of political apathy are all around us.
I’d love to hear you elaborate on what specifically MLK was ignorant about, shy of his infidelity.
The 19th century books you like aren’t resulting in people getting separated from their families or deported to countries they’ve never lived. They’re also not an immutable piece of your identity; your argument doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
I’ll leave you with this, which brings me back to my original point that being apolitical isn’t a privilege that everyone has. Do you think a black person drinking from a whites only fountain in Mississippi in 1960 was able to just tell the cops “oh no need to arrest me, I’m not political”? Did a Jew residing in Vienna in 1941 have the privilege of saying “oh no need to evict me from my home and shove me into a ghetto, I’m not political”? I could go on. The ignorance and indifference that people have to their privileged status is what drives my contempt.
Right, so you’re simple mad people don’t behave the way you wish they would?
Lots and lots of black people are apolitical man. 40% of black people who are eligble don’t vote. which is about the same as white people or other ethnic groups. Are those black people who don’t vote evil too? there were black people during civil rights who didn’t support the movement, or who didn’t care. lots of people simple don’t care, and it’s not a matter of privileged so much as is preference.
The world is not as simple or black and white as you seem to wish it would be. You simple think anyone who doesn’t agree with you is wrong and bad and contemptuous. And frankly, why would they want to be political like you then? so they can also hold that attitude towards the non believers?
I never said people should be forced to do anything, but if they refuse to do the bare minimum to educate themselves then they have earned my contempt. There is no measurable harm in not being interested in sports; I would argue that the harmful consequences of political apathy are all around us.
I’d love to hear you elaborate on what specifically MLK was ignorant about, shy of his infidelity.
The 19th century books you like aren’t resulting in people getting separated from their families or deported to countries they’ve never lived. They’re also not an immutable piece of your identity; your argument doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
I’ll leave you with this, which brings me back to my original point that being apolitical isn’t a privilege that everyone has. Do you think a black person drinking from a whites only fountain in Mississippi in 1960 was able to just tell the cops “oh no need to arrest me, I’m not political”? Did a Jew residing in Vienna in 1941 have the privilege of saying “oh no need to evict me from my home and shove me into a ghetto, I’m not political”? I could go on. The ignorance and indifference that people have to their privileged status is what drives my contempt.
Right, so you’re simple mad people don’t behave the way you wish they would?
Lots and lots of black people are apolitical man. 40% of black people who are eligble don’t vote. which is about the same as white people or other ethnic groups. Are those black people who don’t vote evil too? there were black people during civil rights who didn’t support the movement, or who didn’t care. lots of people simple don’t care, and it’s not a matter of privileged so much as is preference.
The world is not as simple or black and white as you seem to wish it would be. You simple think anyone who doesn’t agree with you is wrong and bad and contemptuous. And frankly, why would they want to be political like you then? so they can also hold that attitude towards the non believers?
You’re trying to put a lot of words in my mouth. We’re clearly just talking past one another at this point, so have a good one, I guess.
I’m not the one who looks at apolitical people with contempt dude. Or argues that can’t exist or they are evil or something.
I just think politics is not something everyone is interested in.