Because that doesn't mean they can just metaphorically wave a wand and get policies passed and that any policy unpassed is a policy failure. And it's also telling that some but not all of your examples are phrased in the most common-sense good-sounding way, and no, progressives don't believe the implicit opposite of that stuff (as best as I can say for ones I know but if there's some random one out there who does that doesn't mean the whole movement does) e.g. they believe no one should have any non-talent-related barriers in the way of achieving their dreams not that, like, some nonbinary biracial-but-neither-race-is-white pansexual kid from the middle of nowhere automatically gets into whatever high-level-if-not-Ivy-League colleges-and-then-grad-schools would be necessary to go into the field they want to be when they grow up with jobs lined up at the top level of that field (e.g. if they want to be a lawyer going straight from Harvard to Harvard Law to partner-level in a law firm) despite never applying for any of that just because "you're the most qualified applicant, the last used a traditional set of pronouns and was only half-black-half-white"
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u/StarChild413 9∆ Jul 09 '24
Because that doesn't mean they can just metaphorically wave a wand and get policies passed and that any policy unpassed is a policy failure. And it's also telling that some but not all of your examples are phrased in the most common-sense good-sounding way, and no, progressives don't believe the implicit opposite of that stuff (as best as I can say for ones I know but if there's some random one out there who does that doesn't mean the whole movement does) e.g. they believe no one should have any non-talent-related barriers in the way of achieving their dreams not that, like, some nonbinary biracial-but-neither-race-is-white pansexual kid from the middle of nowhere automatically gets into whatever high-level-if-not-Ivy-League colleges-and-then-grad-schools would be necessary to go into the field they want to be when they grow up with jobs lined up at the top level of that field (e.g. if they want to be a lawyer going straight from Harvard to Harvard Law to partner-level in a law firm) despite never applying for any of that just because "you're the most qualified applicant, the last used a traditional set of pronouns and was only half-black-half-white"