Let's stay on task, people. We've got a lot of work to do and intellectual and PC masturbation ain't going to get us over the finish line.
via Southeast to Southwest
"Fighting an Uphill Batttle"
Excerpt:
...I am never ceased to be amazed when I read about various meetings of our community how much time and energy are wasted on non-pertinent issues. There is always the person who feels the need to lecture everyone else about animal rights or vegetarianism. There is always the person who has to remind the white people that we are all secretly racist because we don't all have a boyfriend or girlfriend of a different race. There's always the feminist lesbian objecting to "patriarchal" words. There's the party queen objecting to actually establishing relationships because we're trying to "become like heterosexuals." There's the environmentalist who doesn't want to protest because the signs and flyers waste too much paper or the carbon "footprint" to gather so many people would be too great.
No wonder we can't seem to get anything accomplished. I've learned over the years that the liberal leanings of our community often lead to "Activist Attention Deficit Disorder." We can't focus long enough on our own collective problem to get anything done. Because everyone must be an idealist and "live [their] convictions" we are constantly hamstrung...
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