"compassion = gullibility" quoting a DUer on another thread. Do you agree?

[Tsiyu]

48. I read Kurska's specific post as meaning they are "not equal"

but the gist of the OP referenced - and of a few subsequent posts on that thread - was that compassion does = gullibility, and that DUers were particularly gullible.

Our confessed enemies ( those poor lost souls who couldn't make the cut so they devote entire websites to us ) claim that we are the classic idiots who throw money at lost causes.

It's a simplistic mindset, one that you will see in authoritarian types and people with poor social skills. ( I am not talking about shy or awkward people here, as I can be muy shy and awkward, but about narcissists and sadists who do, unfortunately, live among us. ) When I see some idiot claiming that he or she never shares a penny with anyone but their financial adviser, I know they either 1) have no true friends or loved ones who care about them, 2) they are broke and bitter (perhaps for reason #1) or 3) they are lying through their teeth.

Nobody makes it through this life without having been shown at least the compassion of being kept alive as a mewling infant and a suicidal toddler. But compassion goes further than that. We are each reliant on compassion every day of our lives.

People on DU have helped many here - including myself - with issues, and I don't consider DU to have been duped nor do I think any single person aided was a "lost cause."

The conservatives who mock such efforts are the very ones who decry public assistance, claiming that private charity can handle human need. So when private individuals on DU step up to meet human needs, why would any conservative mock that?

I have to conclude that conservatives are either duplicitous or so fucked up in the head, they forget their own platforms.

And I wanted to know, in that particular thread we're discussing, what was it about the woman that made the OP absolutely certain she was a "lost cause" and that we were idiots to defend her.

Looking at her picture, I could not determine one way or another. I had no pre-conceived notions. But I live all around people who automatically assume person of color=lost cause. To their credit, when I call them on it, most will admit that their prejudice was home taught, that they don't really think that way and that, yes, people of all colors can sometimes be saints and sometimes seem like lost causes.

But I ask, sometimes, if that is the reason a person is particularly riled up by another human's wrongdoing.

I know people who hate Obama because he is black. They admit it.

If you're going to instantly mistrust someone due to color, you should just come out and admit it. I admit I instantly mistrust pasty white older guys, but some of the most awesome liberals are pasty white older guys.




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