So Much of Liberalism Really is Them Pretending Not to Understand Things. By John Hawkins.
“It’s amazing how much leftist discourse is just them pretending not to understand things, thus making discourse impossible.” — Millenial Woes.
Talking to liberals about political issues is nearly impossible, not just because they think disagreeing with them makes you de facto evil, but because they’re constantly feigning stupidity about so many things. Don’t get me wrong; liberals often truly believe completely ridiculous things, but they also frequently pretend not to understand the most basic concepts.
For example, on trans:
- They pretend you can just change your sex at will.
- They pretend not to comprehend that they’re encouraging kids to do this in schools.
- They pretend that there’s no difference between letting a man or a woman share a female locker room, bathroom, a women’s shelter, or a prison.
- They pretend there’s no physical difference between men and women, so it’s fine for men to compete in women’s athletics.
Everything about it is them pretending not to recognize things every child grasps about men and women.
They pretend not to understand what you’re talking about:
When you point out to liberals that defunding the police and allowing criminals to break the law endlessly without putting them in jail leads to a lot more crime, they pretend not to understand what you’re talking about. They don’t even say, “Why surely the guy who has been arrested 40 times is about to turn it around and become an upstanding citizen,” you just get a shoulder shrug, as if it’s something out of their control, like whether it rains or gets dark at night.
They are unable to perceive why white people don’t want to be discriminated against with DEI programs.
They can’t get why decent people wouldn’t want pervy drag queens reading to their kids.
They don’t see why they shouldn’t be able to block traffic, tear down statues, or deface art just because they feel like it. …
Try explaining your problem with the idea of manmade global warming, socialism, or the dangers of refusing to secure the border, and they just don’t get it. Somehow, they claim that they can’t understand what you mean.
Why they pretend:
How do you have a dialogue with people who behave like this? You don’t, which is exactly how they like it.
You see, these people have tied their whole identities to ideas they can’t intellectually defend. What happens if they have a real and honest debate? They’ll have to admit that the other side isn’t just evil; they’re actually right about a lot of things and have good points. Guess what happens if you’re a liberal and you admit that?
Well, the left is closer to a religion than an ideology these days, and if you stray from their doctrine, your friends and allies start treating you like a heretic. Joe Rogan, Elon Musk, and JK Rowling could tell you all about it.
Governance and democracy are breaking down:
The problem with all of this is that it makes it impossible to simply talk our issues out. They don’t care about logic or who wins a debate; they just know what they know, and they find a way to not understand anything that contradicts what they know.
Facts are secondary to group interests, money for team-left, and virtue signaling.