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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 4, 2020 at
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Compassion is the root of the progressive desire to<br>
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<div>### I have yet to see a modern "progressive" who
desires justice and progress, or one that sees
compassion as anything but a rhetorical ploy.</div>
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<div>Their idea of progress nowadays is banning plastic
straws, showers, and vaccinations. And a lot more. </div>
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Anti-vaxxers are well represented on the Right, don’t you think?
In fact, while anti-vaxxers can be found across the political
spectrum (I imagine whether one views it as one dimensional or
two or more dimensional), those who identify as conservative
have a tendency towards being anti-vaxxers. See:
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<div>To date, most of the anti-vaxxers I’ve met have
self-identified as on the Right and are often religious
conservatives. I’m relying on memory and this is anecdotal, so
take it with a grain of salt. But that my experience also
matches the above study probably means I’m not living inside
some weird bubble with regard to this. (For the record, too,
all the politically active Democrats who seem progressive that
I know personally are pro-vax.)<br>
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OK, my fault. I shouldn't have use the word 'progressive'. Like
'libertarian', that word can be used to describe a number of
completely different viewpoints. My idea of what constitutes
progress will be totally different to the idea of a religious
fundamentalist, for example.<br>
<pre cols="72">-</pre></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### Yes, exactly. For me this word is tainted by association with leftist supremacism, even though if we concentrated on the etymology I could be classified as a raging progressive, what with my penchant for genetic engineering, uploading, anarcho-capitalism and the like.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal </div></div></div>