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In reply to the discussion: A shout out to "social issues" [View all]BainsBane
(53,035 posts)The dismissal of "social issues" is not really about social vs. economic because the two are interlinked. It's a way that some have of dismissing the rights and concerns of the majority of the population. It's about an assumption that their own concerns are universal and should even supersede the interests of others. When they dismiss social issues and instead proclaim themselves to be advocating for economic issues, what they are really arguing is that it is their economic interests that matter, that their sense of entitlement assumes them to be universal, while they casually dismiss the concerns of the majority of Americans as "social" and therefore less. When the issues that affect our lives don't "really matter," they are saying that it is us who doesn't matter.