Friday, August 14, 2020

Challenging my own biases

Part of providing information on Biden and Harris is for me personally to explore the complexity of their humanity and record. I want to challenge my own preconceptions and biases that have been fed to me by what I'm now calling the radical left media. While they do make some valid points they also spew a lot of extremist ideology that has practical consequences which defeat the very purpose of progressivism.* Just going with the generalized dogma that Biden and Harris are neoliberals, which ends any further investigation, doesn't sound like complex thinking to me but more like the same sort of stereotyping inherent to biased hubris and narcissism.

Now, as to specifics in that debate, Bazelon does make accurate note of some of Kamala's negative former acts as DA and AG. But she also acknowledges that her record as Senator is now on board with progressive policies. Solis (Kamala'a political opponent) also shows that while a DA and AG Kamala also promoted a lot of positive progressive policy. So when I previously just emphasized Kamala's negative acts to the exclusion of anything positive to support my own biases that says my own blinders were missing a LOT of the story. I'm attempting to examine that to get a more accurate picture.

* Like getting folks to not vote for Biden when that further increases the likelihood of more Twit and Repug destruction of policies that promote human and environmental welfare.

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