@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space Increasingly, however, I'm convinced that "conservative" carries an encoded bigotry, or at the very least an implicit support for institutionalized discrimination. It may not extend to the individual level -- conservative people are not themselves inherently bigoted -- but more and more conservativism rejects any attempt to point at systemic bias as a cause of any individual lack of success, but then draws broad conclusions about those who don't succeed.
@InspectorCaracal@tootplanet.space At best, conservativism seems forever to want to find some point in history at which we can draw a line and say, "everything afterwards is your responsibility," with no thought given of how the events prior may have destabilized the present.
Mind you, the liberal story seems to be to find a point in the future and draw the same line, as distinct from being aware that this will forever be an ongoing process.
