Comment on Dorinda Cox accuses Greens of racism in scathing resignation letter
Ilandar@lemm.ee 6 days agoThey’re the kinds of people who could never even conceive of the possibility that they are not completely virtuous ("they’ as in themselves, not POC. I’m not claiming some reverse racism BS).
I cannot imagine them being called racist and them not feeling angry at the accusation. I cannot imagine them admitting to fault.
You could say the exact same for the major parties, or any group of people beyond loud and proud racists like neo-Nazis and white supremacists. This is literally how everyone thinks. Even Pauline Hanson - arguably the most racist politician in modern Australian politics - gets extremely offended when people use that word to describe her. You seem to hold the mistaken belief that people closer to the political centre are somehow less virtuous or less concerned with being “good” people, but that’s an assessment of society that is just fundamentally wrong. They don’t look at The Greens or anyone else further to the left and think “we don’t try to be as perfect as those guys, we accept our moral flaws” - they think their position of relative pragmatism and compromise IS the morally superior position.
Tenderizer@aussie.zone 6 days ago
I think people on the hard left or hard racist are more likely to specifically feel angry when criticized because the specific association of “makes me uncomfortable = evil” is much more likely. In the left’s case, they’re in the child prodigy “I’m too smart to be emotional” camp. In the hard right’s case it’s because the possibility that their gut instinct should maybe be interrogated is unfathomable to them.
In other words I think both One Nation and the Greens are made up of people with low EQ.