It's not an unpopular opinion, just a reasoning that anyone could realize.
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2023
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How you conduct yourself is a reflection of you not of the people treating you poorly. Have some pride in your own conduct and let shitty people suffer consequences of their behavior.
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Being oppressed isn't the same thing as being ignored. So if I simply refuse to help you, that doesn't mean you should feel free to take my stuff.
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Agreed, but I think the opposite point is more poignant: Yes, you are owed things. Take them.
Gonna need some firm evidence that the social contract is "long dead" in the US or this post is just nonsense.
https://time.com/5845116/coronavirus-bailout-rich-richer/ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/opinion/sunday/inequality-america-paul-krugman.html https://www.opensecrets.org/news/reports/a-decade-under-citizens-united https://www.congress.gov/event/116th-congress/house-event/LC64096/text?s=1&r=3 https://apnews.com/article/black-lives-matter-10th-anniversary-trayvon-martin-c2d79ae4639934ca1eb77d6b54c16f8b
The social contract is broken when a state asks its citizens to obey the law but doesn’t give them equal benefit from fulfilling the duties of law.
I could keep cobbling links together as examples, but if your metric is a President going on TV and tearing up a piece of paper labeled the social contract while looking into the camera saying "the social contract is dead, officially. No take backsies, can't triple stamp a double no social contract double stamp." then I can't help you.