GreenGoo wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 7:22 pm
Ok, I'm going to try to illustrate my viewpoint here.
1. GOP are actively, openly making life harder for thousands of people across the country, including children.
2. Boebert is easily amongst the worst of them.
3. Her kid has done some questionable things, that reflect poorly on her.
4. People have said she's probably not as good a parent as her award implies. In fact she's likely a bad parent.
5. You said whoa, slow down, let's not jump to conclusions. Some kids do stupid things and it's not the parents' fault.
6. I'm saying the conclusions being reached are reasonable and rational. No jumping required. We know things about her. Things she's shared willingly.
That's it.
I'm sick of people under reacting to the GOP bullshit, because maybe this one particular thing is not actually what it appears to be. Even though it is almost certainly what it appears to be.
It's why we have "fair" articles in the NYT. These people are shit people. Of fucking course she's a terrible parent. Her son could be valedictorian and we still have enough evidence to assume she's a terrible parent. Which is a totally subjective arbitrary thing to begin with. What's an objective definition of a good or bad parent, that we could use so we don't make any mistaken judgments?
I actually agree with alost everything there, except:
Her kid has done some questionable things, that reflect poorly on her.
What he did, to me, doesn't reflect on her at all. It is a single point of data, and it is a point of data that applies equally to literally millions of
great parents. She's a shitty person. She's probably a shitty parent. Neither is because her son had sex with a girl that could have been a year and a few months younger than him (to which people seem to be equating him with a pedophile), and neither is because said girl got pregnant.
I don't think we should under react to GOP bullshit. I think that we if we are willing to publicly shame her for something that doesn't (IMHO) justify public shaming, and at the same time effectively declare the same about millions of other parents, then we're just adding more bullshit. React to the GOP bullshit. But if if you do it in a way that also impacts random innocent bystanders, expect me to call it. And in the end, it just weakens any of the real arguments we have against her. "But her emails!" "But his stutter!" "But her son!" "But his Depends!" "His family's real name sounds funny!" It's just adolescent neener-neener crap, and while it is a 'reaction' to the GoP, it isn't a valuable reaction. It's just petty vindictiveness.
Argue the truth. Smack them upside the head with the truth. Badger our representatives to address the truth. But this? Come on.