2/ Let me say right up front, yep, this certainly hits people unequally. The lockdown is quite easy for white collar folks who kept their jobs, stay home, get food etc delivered and it's much harder for blue collar people who have to do their same old jobs, wearing a !@# mask
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13/ This is a coherent point, and I continue to not have an opinion on the ROI effectiveness of lockdowns, but ... this, being a nuanced policy argument is NOT what I'm discussing in this thread.
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14/ OK, now THIS is the first stab at it that makes sense. "Lockdowns are unfair bc you put COSTS on blue collar people (work, chance of getting sick), but remove BENEFITS (relaxation, socialization)." OK, interesting. ...but now what? What's step 2?https://twitter.com/kendrictonn/status/1328353643926523907 …
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16/ Right. I ENTIRELY agree that the prog elites are absolute hypocrites. This thread is not defending them, not defending lockdown-for-Thanksgiving-but-not-for-BLM. This thread is asking "what does X mean / hope to achieve?".https://twitter.com/scareduck/status/1328354469877309440 …
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17/ OK, guys, I'm getting a ton of people who are going off topic and telling me that progs are bad, that lockdowns are bad, etc. And ... fine. I agree with the first and have no opinion on the second. I'm trying to understand one PARTICULAR RHETORICAL POINT, that's it.
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It's just an effort at reframing. Most people are so inundated with a flood of "lockouts are inherently moral and above dispute" that they don't have the ground to argue back from yet. You are correct that this is not an argument, it's groundwork.
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Also the right speaks the language of the left but without power, chanting "policy has disparate demographic impact" like the words themselves will change shit, not realizing that those words need the cathedral behind them
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