At what point does right wing just mean racist/d1ck/heartless baxtard?

Jayop wrote: »

Gimme a break. Go onto any single thread on here relating to the left in Ireland and you'll see a lot more abuse being spewed than what you say.

I dunno about a lot more J, but the Left/Progressive/Liberal type stuff gets a fair share of the spewing alright. Hell, mea culpa, I am often one of the spewers. Even so, I have noticed more spewing aimed at the left of late. I have often found the more confused, off balance, even scared people, especially people in the middle get, the more Rightward they tend to lean. I suppose that's a natural human response. When shít goes down or is threatening to, the understandable reaction is to "protect what's mine". In times of want and chaos that's understandable, in times of plenty it veers towards sociopathy.

Personally I would be an "extreme" centrist with Right leanings in some areas, Left in others. For me my main litmus test is how is this going to benefit society. We are in the end a social animal. We got to where we are on the back of that. Yes we most certainly need the individualists, indeed they should be encouraged, but the tide should rise as many boats as possible. As possible. Again for me, my take is that there likely will always be "broken" people of all stripes, no matter what system is in place. As the lad from Galilee said "the poor will always be with us". It's how we as people, we as societies deal with such souls is what marks the difference in approach and in my mind anyway, what marks out that all too noise tempered concept; morality.

One of the earliest early human skeletons we have is that of a young Homo Erectus woman. An upright walking being, far removed from "Us". In her last month of life she suffered from hypervitaminosis(overdose of Vit A, likely from eating a predator liver). In constant pain, she could barely move as her bones and muscles scarred and stiffened by the day. She was rendered disabled, utterly useless to the group. A drain on them, at a time when any drain was far more acute and dangerous to those small bands of ickle pre humans. Yet the group cared for her, even to the possible detriment of themselves. For a month. For a long time people have looked for the Missing Link(™), the difference between us and what went before. For me, that's it right there writ large in her fossilised bones.

K-9 wrote: »

Seems to more attacks on liberals these days all right, though maybe it was always there just it's more vitriolic now with all these buzzwords from reddit or stormfront or wherever. Murica.

By your leave, FYP K. That's a helluva lot of the problem. We - and not just we in Ireland - are importing this dopey extremist nonsense from the US of A. Pretty much all of the guff we're discussing and linking to "statistics" on an overwhelmingly Irish community is US based nonsense.