Comment section on article about Sasha Obama deciding to not rush sororities at the University of Michigan

This is a problem.

Posting this stuff, giving it any attention at all, serves no purpose beyond letting some people feel righteous and everyone feel like there can never be any reconciliation at all.

Know what the Russian troll factories post? Shit like this. They want us to hate each other, to feel like "the other side" is far too alien to ever talk to.

When you are broken down on the side of the highway, tens of miles from civilization in either direction, and a kindly man stops to help you patch your tire and get on your way, do you care about the bumper sticker on his truck? Do you refuse his help?

When a young soldier puts duty over safety and bravely does what he's ordered to do, do you dishonor his sacrifice if he didn't vote for the same person for President that you voted for?

Does the climate care if it's killing a bunch of racists or a bunch of vegetarians or a bunch of capitalists or a bunch of ivory tower academics as it races past the point of no return?

But hey, as long as you get to feel good about yourself for a minute, about the rightness and justness of your worldview (that you never question or seriously challenge with so much as a philosophy book let alone a challenging perspective on the news), well, all's right the world, eh? Very comfortable.

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