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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8715148" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>Most people might want that... but what does them living their lives in peace cost someone else who cannot do so? It's all well and good to be able to live your life in peace, disengaged from these issues. It's great to be privileged enough to do so. Trouble is - the people who want to live in peace and disengaged are often easy to stir up against people who need to have those privileges extended by the people seeking to protect the exclusivity of those privileges. Hence, the dogwhistling, the "othering", and the other divisiveness that certain politicians will deliberately sow in order to gain power.</p><p>I mean, it's great to be able to trust that the police won't use excessive force against me, to have bodily autonomy, to be able to seek a mortgage in any neighborhood I want and can afford, be listened to by my doctor, to have health insurance, to have my job applications not overlooked simply because of my name, to not worry about being beat up because of my gender/sexual identity and preferences, and to not be blamed for spreading the latest pandemic. But that's not the world everyone lives in. It's not even the world everyone in my immediate family lives in. It sure would be nice for everyone to be able to benefit from those privileges and more and it would be great if people who really just want to live in peace didn't get all resentful when we ask that we all pull together as a nation to make it happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 8715148, member: 3400"] Most people might want that... but what does them living their lives in peace cost someone else who cannot do so? It's all well and good to be able to live your life in peace, disengaged from these issues. It's great to be privileged enough to do so. Trouble is - the people who want to live in peace and disengaged are often easy to stir up against people who need to have those privileges extended by the people seeking to protect the exclusivity of those privileges. Hence, the dogwhistling, the "othering", and the other divisiveness that certain politicians will deliberately sow in order to gain power. I mean, it's great to be able to trust that the police won't use excessive force against me, to have bodily autonomy, to be able to seek a mortgage in any neighborhood I want and can afford, be listened to by my doctor, to have health insurance, to have my job applications not overlooked simply because of my name, to not worry about being beat up because of my gender/sexual identity and preferences, and to not be blamed for spreading the latest pandemic. But that's not the world everyone lives in. It's not even the world everyone in my immediate family lives in. It sure would be nice for everyone to be able to benefit from those privileges and more and it would be great if people who really just want to live in peace didn't get all resentful when we ask that we all pull together as a nation to make it happen. [/QUOTE]
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