More than 50 people stood outside the Enoch Pratt Library’s Southeast Anchor branch on a recent spring morning in Baltimore. Parents with small children, teenagers, and senior citizens clustered outside the door and waited to hear their ticket numbers called.
They weren’t there for books—at least, not at that moment. They came to shop for groceries.
Connected to the library, the brightly painted market space is small but doesn’t feel cramped. Massive windows drench it in sunshine. In a previous life, it was a café. Now, shelves, tables, counters, and a refrigerator are spread out across the room, holding a mix of produce and shelf-stable goods.
Conservatives have no real value system beyond “what is good for me right now?”. They like or dislike things for transient, emotional, reasons. They might be in favor of charity when it’s doing something they personally benefit from, but that’s about as far as their reasoning goes.
IDK, arguing that homeless people should be allowed to stay somewhere despite committing multiple crimes and posing a fire safety hazard doesn’t exactly strike me as the opposite of a “what is good for me right now?” kinda mindset.
Hating on weak people feels good to them, maybe?
You tell me. If conservatives really are as greedy and selfish as you say, is that not also a form of weakness masquerading as strength? How are you any better if you hate them for that?
what?
I’m better than them because I’m not trying to overthrow the government to install a dictatorship that protects my in-group (eg: straight white people) and binds my out-group. I’m not trying to destroy the environment, murder the queers, ban books, ban vaccines, either.
But you’re still advocating for the murder of an out-group (i.e. conservatives). You’re also just shifting the blame to someone else, which is exactly what you’re accusing THEM of.
Doctors cut people up just like serial killers. They’re basically the same.
No, because their intention is different.
You’re not trying to cure conservatives of their hard-heartedness, you’re threatening to punish them for it.
The intention is different. Self defense against conservatives vs their offense against all. See also the paradox of tolerance