Because it tends to privilege emotion over reason, imbuing crime victims with unique moral authority can often lead to bad policy outcomes. But almost nobody cares about the manipulativeness of the tactic as such, what they care about is the policy outcome
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It’s awful regardless of which side does it.
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Oof, I’ve seen this play out personally. And yet society should be more equitable so that disadvantaged groups can have equal opportunity, outcomes? How do you do this without showing adverse outcomes?
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...When you have NeoNazis marching around downtown abusing the memory of a woman who was killed by a really unfortunate accident, and the family asked not to, to rally against a sanctuary policy...
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Thissa joke right?
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A social symptom, common to all. We move the goal post if we start feeling like we are going to loose. We are the hero of our own storyline. Heroes aren’t supposed to be wrong, because that would mean, “Cognitive Dissonance”!
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Get real
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Notice that there was no granting of unique moral authority to the family of Kate Steinle from the left when an illegal killed her?? See how that works both ways now??
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