[Why Liberals Are So
Obsessed With Racism, Homosexuality and Transsexualism]
Once you understand those basics, it’s very easy to see why both
sides hold the positions they do on most issues and to comprehend why
there’s so little middle ground. Once you get the mentalities, you can
predict where each side will come down on issues.
...
because it’s not about the specifics; it’s about an arms race between
liberals trying to signal their virtue by being willing to go further
than other people in being conspicuously compassionate while getting in
some cheap shots on their political opponents at the same time.
An extremely expensive program designed to help disadvantaged minority
children read better that has been proven not to work? Liberals will
support it and conservatives will oppose.
A program that cuts the deficit by cutting people off the welfare and
disability rolls who don’t belong there in the first place?
Conservatives will support it and liberals will oppose.
A program called “Puppies for Orphans” that hands out “therapy dogs” to
poor children at $100,000 per year in cost? Liberals will support it
and conservatives will oppose.
The problem with all of this is that most of what passes for
“compassion” with liberals isn’t real compassion. There’s a cost to
real compassion and thus, a limit to it.
[...]
It’s cost-free for someone to talk about how much he hates racism
because racism is almost universally despised in America. There is no
price to be paid for attacking a zoo that made the difficult decision
to shoot a gorilla because a boy had fallen into his pen. If you’re not
a Christian and have no moral qualms about gay marriage, it’s easy to
call for the law to crack down on bakers or wedding photographers who
refuse to participate because they find it morally repulsive.
The problem with all this pointless virtue signaling is that because
there is no real cost to it, there are no limits to it. As long as
liberals lose nothing by advocating a position, but get credit for
being compassionate for taking it, why not go for it?
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