TommySalami @ TommySalami @lemmy.world

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I have a hard time chalking stuff like that up to

#1 The Guardian is left leaning, and they certainly don't pull punches with conservatives. This is also an article about a widely known talking point that conservatives are not shy about. This is not the counter to the article that you think it is.

The reason people disagree with #2 is because they can handle abstract thinking. Teaching about a race massacre in the 20s is not in any way designed to make white kids feel guilty. Nothing of the sort made me feel "guilty" as a child, but it did help me wrap my head around the seriousness of civil rights and the extreme difficulties many minority groups had in the US.

No one is telling kids they did it, no one is telling them white people did it because they're evil. It's a ridiculous notion, and it's used to justify white washing important history. I've seen lesson plans for subject like this, and they're as milquetoast as they can be.

These concepts are perverted into justification for actions that are either entirely irrelevant or only related to these values through a very, very specific lens.

An example is family values being used as a cudgel against acceptance of LGBTQ individuals/communities for quite some time now. Or how "communism" quickly became a synonym for "not explicitly conservative".

Theres some truth to this, but a lot of people do use this as a shield against the general cultural acceptance that piracy is stealing or otherwise morally underhanded. I do it, but I don't have any illusion I'm one of the activists. I just get indignant and refuse to pay someone for content or entertainment who I think is damaging to the medium or predatory in general. I feel like if I really wanted to make a statement, I just wouldn't consume their work at all -- but life is short and I want to have my cake and eat it too.

Dont knock it man, it's got its own key!