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.
Our house is on fire. Join the resistance: Do no harm/take no shit. My idiosyncratic and confluent bricolage of progressive politics, the collaborative commons, next generation cognitive neuroscience, American pragmatism, de/reconstruction, dynamic systems, embodied realism, postmetaphysics, psychodynamics, aesthetics. It ain't much but it's not nothing.
Friday, August 14, 2020
Challenging my own biases
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