Well put. An offer to be silent and passive in the big tent is simply an offer to put a velvet glove over the iron fist that's going to be punching you in the face.
Very nicely stated. You don’t have to agree with someone, but you do have to respect their quest for civil rights. If everyone is created equal, then a marginalized person has as much right to their opinion and championing political causes that benefit them just as much as the majority does. And people who don’t have the same lived experience don’t really have a say in how that quest is accomplished. A little empathy for people who aren’t you goes a long way. And this is where I will add a plug for bringing back literature in a big way to public education. Young people need to read books that get them out of their homogenous bubbles.
I wonder how all these "Big Tent" Democrats would feel it we were to tell those people who are Irish, German, Hispanic, Italian, Polish, Black, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Jewish, Southern Asian, or Muslim, Female, or Cis Gay that they were being "divisive" for not supporting candidates that were prejudiced against any or all of THEM? That "Big Tent" would get really small really quickly, would it, if it only allowed in White English Europeans?
It's not as if any or all of those groups hadn't been discriminated against in the past, either! I heard stories from both sides of my family (German on my Dad's side, Scots-Irish on my Mom's) about how their parents or grandparents were marginalized if not outright abused when THEY first lived in the U.S., before their voices got too loud to be drowned out and they were (initially reluctantly) granted the same playing field as the gatekeepers had.
Some of those groups are STILL fighting to get on that playing field, at least in some circles! Rancid Andy Cuomo won't shut up about how Mamdani is a "Muslim"—I wonder how he'd react if I started making Mafia jokes about him, just to remind him he's not that secure in his "Americanness"?
I can't help but feel like those "Big Tent" Democrats have it backwards, because a "Big Tent" is inclusive and respects all...who aren't Trump Nazis, or literal Nazis....
Well put. An offer to be silent and passive in the big tent is simply an offer to put a velvet glove over the iron fist that's going to be punching you in the face.
Very nicely stated. You don’t have to agree with someone, but you do have to respect their quest for civil rights. If everyone is created equal, then a marginalized person has as much right to their opinion and championing political causes that benefit them just as much as the majority does. And people who don’t have the same lived experience don’t really have a say in how that quest is accomplished. A little empathy for people who aren’t you goes a long way. And this is where I will add a plug for bringing back literature in a big way to public education. Young people need to read books that get them out of their homogenous bubbles.
I wonder how all these "Big Tent" Democrats would feel it we were to tell those people who are Irish, German, Hispanic, Italian, Polish, Black, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Jewish, Southern Asian, or Muslim, Female, or Cis Gay that they were being "divisive" for not supporting candidates that were prejudiced against any or all of THEM? That "Big Tent" would get really small really quickly, would it, if it only allowed in White English Europeans?
It's not as if any or all of those groups hadn't been discriminated against in the past, either! I heard stories from both sides of my family (German on my Dad's side, Scots-Irish on my Mom's) about how their parents or grandparents were marginalized if not outright abused when THEY first lived in the U.S., before their voices got too loud to be drowned out and they were (initially reluctantly) granted the same playing field as the gatekeepers had.
Some of those groups are STILL fighting to get on that playing field, at least in some circles! Rancid Andy Cuomo won't shut up about how Mamdani is a "Muslim"—I wonder how he'd react if I started making Mafia jokes about him, just to remind him he's not that secure in his "Americanness"?
I can't help but feel like those "Big Tent" Democrats have it backwards, because a "Big Tent" is inclusive and respects all...who aren't Trump Nazis, or literal Nazis....