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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Lane3 who wrote (51109)3/1/2008 12:37:35 PM
From: cnyndwllr  Read Replies (2) of 542598
 
Lane, re: And my point was that you were too quick to interpret the complaints as opposition to unemployment insurance.

The "dark side" comment wasn't generated based on the view that Tim Fowler was opposed to unemployment insurance. It was a comment on the many who hold an underlying belief that the majority of those who rely on benefit programs are grasping, lazy and gaming the system. That's "dark side" thinking, especially when you consider that it's based on anecdotal evidence that's often exaggerated beyond reasonable belief.

Surely you understood that.

And, with respect to whether I was too quick to interpret his complaints as opposition to unemployment insurance, did you read his comments confusing it with workman's comp coverage and then later defending his criticism of it based on the unproven "case histories" written by those had endorsed the blogger's heartless and selfish condemnation of one of that blogger's employees who had been in an accident and lost his job?

The fact is that I'm really tired of those kinds of comments from people who seem unable to generate compassion for people less capable, less educated, and less employable than themselves.

I'm not saying they lack compassion; they have plenty of compassion for people like "them," it's only the "others" that they can't seem to generate much sympathy for. In my experience, when such callous people are suddenly disadvantaged in their lives they often take a 180 degree turn and complain bitterly that not enough is being done for them.

Hopefully there will come a day when the term "social conservative," as it's commonly used today, will leave a bad taste in the mouths of many more of us. Ed

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